Composite cases · typical SME findings
On the floor.
Names are composites. The maths is the kind we run: food cost, labour, waste, voids, yield, the roster that never moved. Each one paid for the walkthrough. Most paid for the year.
Northside Espresso
18-seat cafe · Fitzroy
They thought food cost was 30%. It was 37.4%. Sixty-one thousand was sitting in the pass.
$61,200 / yr · +6.8 pts
Harbour Slice
4-site pizza group · Port Melbourne
Labour at 36% across four stores. Same weekday roster as Saturday. One hundred and eighty-six thousand a year, standing around.
$186,400 / yr · +8.6 pts
The Copper Pan
60-cover dining · South Yarra
Forty-eight dishes. Forty percent dogs. The pass was a museum. We made it a menu again.
$94,200 / yr · +4.1 pts
Mill & Rye
Bakery, wholesale + retail · Brunswick
Eleven percent of laminated pastry never made the case. Yield is not a vibe. It is grams.
$62,400 / yr · +6.5 pts
The Red Stag
Inner-west pub · Seddon
Pour cost 31.8% against a 22% target. The cellar was a honesty system. Honesty lost.
$78,400 / yr · +5.4 pts
Quickfire Burgers
QSR, two sites · Dandenong
Two thousand one hundred a month in voids, discounts and a till that never quite tied.
$51,200 / yr · +4.1 pts
Kindling Catering
Events & corporate · Richmond
One in four quotes was below true cost. Load-in labour was a vibe. The job looked busy. The year was not.
$110,400 / yr · +13.5 pts
Solar Food Co.
Truck + ghost kitchen · Footscray
Buying like a household. Food cost 41%. The truck was a shop. The shopping was Coles.
$44,200 / yr · +11.1 pts