Margin intelligence for Restaurant365 groups

Know where your margin is slipping before it becomes another unexplained P&L variance.

Three answers every week from the Restaurant365 data you already have. Each one with the evidence, a label, and an owner.

Seven business days from data access. No success fee. You approve every finding.

The three questions

What a controller cannot get from Restaurant365 without a week of spreadsheets

Restaurant365 records what happened. PeakOps tells you what deserves investigation, which findings are trustworthy, and whether the fix worked.

Question 1

Are we paying the price we agreed?

Price steps on your top 25 purchased items the week a distributor moves, matched store by store so a change in who bought is never mistaken for a change in price. Regional parity on the same items, compared only in weeks where both regions bought.

From a real audit

The same ribeye cost one region $1.23 a pound more than another, worth $24k to $70k a year.

Question 2

Is each store’s food cost what the menu says it should be?

Theoretical versus actual by store over four weeks, count-adjusted where inventory counts exist. Stores that cannot be measured are named, with why, instead of being averaged in.

From a real audit

Food cost ran 0.45 points above theoretical across one group, about $200k a year, concentrated in four stores. Six of ten stores did not count.

Question 3

Can we trust the numbers?

Unmapped items, missing counts, booking rows, stale recipes and commissary flows, each with the person who can fix it in Restaurant365. The cleanup list is what unlocks the first two answers.

From a real audit

Fifty booking rows to review and five menu items with no recipe, worth $62k of sales a month, invisible to theoretical cost.

Step one

The Margin Integrity Audit

One report, delivered within seven business days of usable data access, and a 45-minute readout with finance and operations in the room to agree up to three priority investigations.

$5,000up to 10 locations

$7,500 for 11 to 25 locations. Credited in full against your first quarter of the weekly service if you continue within 30 days of the readout.

Founding price: $2,500 for the first three groups signed before November 20, 2026.
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Section 1

Readiness

Which of the three questions your data can answer today, and the cleanup list that unlocks the rest.

Section 2

Purchase price

Price steps on the top 25 items over 90 days. Cross-region and cross-distributor parity on the top 10, priced per year.

Section 3

Theoretical vs actual

Food cost by store over the trailing four weeks, with the stores that cannot be computed named and why.

Section 4

Booking and credit

The booking-error list with owners, and what your credit memo flow already shows about each vendor.

Every finding is labelled estimated, verified or booking correction. Nothing is presented as savings.

Step two

The same three answers, every week

After the audit, the Margin Integrity Monitor delivers the answers inside the weekly email your controller already reads. Open items come back at the top of the next brief until they close.

  • Price-step alerts on your top 25 items the week a distributor moves, with a regional parity line
  • Theoretical versus actual by store at four-week grain, count-adjusted where counts exist
  • Nightly GL tie-out and booking-error flags, each with an owner
  • A monthly summary: discoveries, actions taken, verified improvements, unresolved exposure
$100per location per month

The first eight weeks are calibration. For a ten-location group that is $12,000 a year against the controllable gaps the audit found. No contract until you have seen eight weeks of answers.

Every number carries a label

Estimate

A detector-calculated amount that still lacks decisive evidence. Shown as a range or a point, never as savings.

Verified

A person checked the source invoice, the agreement and the arithmetic. Only a person can set this label.

Booking correction

The vendor billed correctly. The fix is an entry in Restaurant365, and it is assigned to whoever keeps your books clean.

A person's label survives every nightly re-run. Once your controller marks a finding verified, the detectors cannot overwrite it.

Built for groups where

  • Restaurant365 is your accounting system of record with the POS integration live
  • Ten or more locations, or $5 million or more of annual food and beverage purchases
  • At least one region, concept or distributor split to compare across
  • Recipes exist in Restaurant365, even if they are stale
  • Someone on your team will act on a cleanup list within 30 days

What we do not do

  • Vendor claim preparation or collection
  • Success fees or a percentage of anything
  • Recipe authoring or inventory counts
  • Bookkeeping corrections on your behalf
  • A savings number presented as cash

If an agreement later shows a vendor billing above contract, that goes to your AP team with the evidence attached. It is not a PeakOps service.

Restaurant365 already has a theoretical versus actual report.

It does. Ask when your team last opened it, and what they did next. PeakOps delivers the answer every week, with the cleanup list attached and an owner on each line, inside the email your controller already reads.

The first thing the audit tells you is which stores the report can be trusted for. Usually it is not all of them.

Thirty minutes to find out if your data can answer the three questions.

A fit call covers your Restaurant365 setup, your regions and distributors, and who on your team would act on a cleanup list. If it fits, the audit starts the week you grant data access.