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Restaurant Analytics
Making use of the data a venue already has: what to measure, how to read it and where it misleads.
- Restaurant End-of-Day Report: What to Check Before You Close — What a Z report is, the numbers to check every night, how to count the cash drawer by hand, and how to use a daily summary of the previous day.
- Frequently Bought Together: Raising Restaurant Order Value — Which dishes do your guests order together? How to find real pairs in your own orders and suggest them in a way that helps guests instead of pushing them.
- How to Identify Your Best-Selling Dishes — Best seller by quantity, by revenue or by margin? How to measure your best-selling dishes fairly, over the right window, and what to do once you know.
- How to Use Restaurant Menu Analytics to Increase Sales — Menu analytics show where guests hesitate between opening a dish and ordering it. How to read those signals, change one thing and check the result.
- Average Order Value: What It Is and Why It Matters — Average order value is revenue divided by the number of orders. How restaurants calculate it, how to read it, and the honest ways to raise it.
- Restaurant Analytics Metrics Every Owner Should Track — The restaurant metrics worth tracking — orders, average order value, best sellers, busy hours, menu views — how to read them and what to do next.
- Restaurant Menu Engineering: A Practical Guide — Menu engineering judges each dish by how well it sells and how much it earns. How to sort your menu, what to do with each group, and the data you need.