Prime Cost
Prime Cost Health Check
Food plus labor as a share of sales — the fastest honest read on whether a week worked. Enter three numbers from your POS and see where you land against the published benchmarks.
Playbook
Pizzeria Playbook
The tools behind the reporting. Each one takes a conclusion from an Oven Scars story and makes it executable with your own numbers — no signup, no email gate, and nothing you type ever leaves your browser.
Delivery Breakeven
Delivery Channel Breakeven
Marketplace commission is a percentage of your ticket. Your own driver and white-label fulfillment are closer to a flat fee. There is a specific ticket size where the two lines cross — this finds yours.
Labor by Daypart
Labor by Daypart
A weekly labor percentage is an average, and averages absolve. Break one day into blocks and the overstaffed dead hours stop hiding behind the understaffed peak.
Occupancy & Lease
Occupancy Cost & Lease Quota
The 6% rent benchmark is not a grade, it is a sales quota. Run it backwards and a space tells you how much revenue it demands before it earns its keep — ideally before you sign.
How to read the benchmarks
Every benchmark in these tools is labeled with where it came from and how much to trust it. A lot of restaurant benchmarks are published by companies selling the software that measures them, and some of the most-quoted figures trace to datasets nobody has refreshed in years. Both can still be useful. You deserve to know which is which before you run your shop on one.
- Independent source Research bodies, accounting firms, primary filings.
- Vendor-published Real data, published by a company with something to sell. Discount accordingly.
- Dated data Still the accepted figure, but old enough that you should know its age.
Coming to the Playbook
Second-location readiness scoring, par-level and prep templates, and a menu engineering worksheet. If there’s a calculation you run on a napkin every week, tell us — hello@ovenscars.com. Operator requests decide what gets built next.