Store-level P&L frameworks isolating four-wall EBITDA, with dine-in, delivery,
Store-level P&L frameworks isolating four-wall EBITDA, with dine-in, delivery, and takeaway channel economics separated honestly
Same-store sales analysis, food-cost and waste tracking, kitchen-level P&L, franchise royalty modelling, and multi-outlet rolling forecasts for F&B brands and QSR chains.
Restaurant economics are unforgiving. Prime cost — food plus labour — must hold below sixty percent or the model fails, yet ingredient inflation, wastage, and pilferage attack it daily. Aggregator platforms deliver volume while extracting commissions of twenty to thirty percent, quietly inverting the economics of every delivered order. Rent commitments are fixed; revenue is anything but. New store decisions made on the performance of flagship locations routinely disappoint, because the flagship was never representative. Chains that scale successfully are the ones that know store-level EBITDA, by store, by daypart, by channel — and act on it without sentiment.
Successful chains run on store-level truth: four-wall EBITDA by location, prime cost tracked weekly against recipe-level standards, aggregator channels measured on contribution per order, and new stores approved only against honest ramp curves with post-opening reviews that feed back into site selection.
When every store\'s economics are known and the expansion playbook is proven unit by unit, scaling becomes a repeatable financial exercise — the foundation for franchise growth, private equity interest, and multi-city rollout.