Find where your restaurant is losing money

Usually in a few places that grow with every sale: recipes not re-costed after supplier price rises, kitchen waste nobody measures, free pours at the bar, shifts that don't flex with traffic, and delivery app orders at regular prices, where the apps take a 15–30% commission on each order. Rent and utilities above your type of restaurant's range (10% of sales for counter service, 12% for the rest) squeeze profit too. The 12 questions check each of these, put a dollar range on the leaks you find and flag rent if it's too high.

Owners and managers of independent restaurants: quick service, fast casual, full service and casual dining, fine dining, and bars, taprooms or lounges. It's for whoever runs the place day to day and can see from the bank balance that something is off, but not where the money is going. You don't need a finance team, your books or any software: just 12 answers about how the restaurant runs.

No. Answer from what you know about how the restaurant runs. The report tells you which numbers to start tracking and how to calculate them.

Both come from the same 12 questions and include the full report: grades, dollar estimates, the 72-hour plan, the 30-day roadmap, team cards and worksheets. The $19.99 report adds two things. After paying, you can type in up to 7 numbers from last month, like net sales and payroll, and your report works from them: your real costs against the targets, and estimates sized to your real sales. Every number is optional. It also includes one check-up: on the 1st of the month after your plan's first full month we email you a button, you add that month's numbers, and you get a new report with your progress and a new plan. It stays open for about two months. One check-up per order. No numbers to hand? Skip them and your report is written from your answers; the check-up is still included.

Two paid services we looked at in September 2026, a consultant's quick diagnostic and a systems audit, work from your real records: one asks you to upload your P&L and menu, the other reviews your POS, accounting and payroll with access to your systems. This report works from your 12 answers, so its figures are estimated ranges, not a review of your books. Use it to see where to look first, and where to point a consultant if you hire one later.

They're used to build and deliver your report. We never ask for POS, bank or accounting logins, and we don't sell your answers. The one time a company other than our service providers gets any of your details is if you press a button to be introduced to a company that fixes your biggest problem, and then it gets only what the button says.

The free check never asks for it. We ask only when you choose something that needs it. When you buy a report, Stripe's checkout page asks for your email, and we use it to deliver your report (it also shows on screen) and to send one email a few days later asking how your action plan went. If you ask to be introduced to a company that fixes your biggest leak, that company gets only what the button says. We don't send newsletters or marketing emails, apart from the online check's one reminder, which it tells you about, and tips if you tick a box asking for them. We don't sell your details to data brokers, and the AI that helps write your report never sees your email. The $19.99 report adds one more email, when its included check-up opens.

Only if you ask it to, and only on your own device. Press Remember on this device under your free result or one of our calculators, and your answers and numbers are kept in your browser. Next time, our calculators and the report's number forms start with them, and the quiz welcomes you back with your last grade, so you can check again and see what changed. We never receive them, and you can forget them at any time.

We compare your answers with RestaurantDoctorAI's 2026 targets for your type of restaurant, checked against the National Restaurant Association's figures, and scale the estimates to your sales range. They're ranges, not measurements of your books. The action plan comes from a playbook of standard restaurant fixes chosen for your answers.

Only for the wording. Your grade, dollar ranges and prime cost come from fixed formulas, and your action plan's steps are copied word for word from our playbook of standard restaurant fixes, with your own targets filled in. Google's Gemini, a pre-trained AI model, then explains those results in plain English. It never does the math, and our code double-checks the dollar figures in your action plan. It sees your answers, any numbers you add and your restaurant's name, never your email or payment details.

Yes. The quiz starts on the US; tap Change at the top of the quiz to pick your country. Your figures come out in euros, pounds, Swiss francs or Canadian, Australian or New Zealand dollars where that's your currency, and in US dollars anywhere else. Canada, the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand also get local wording in the action plan. The percentage targets are set for US restaurants and run close to those five countries' norms; anywhere else, treat the report as a rough guide. You pay in US dollars, and your bank converts it.

No. It's an operational benchmark to help you decide where to look first. It's not a CPA audit, tax advice or legal counsel.

No login, no subscription. You pay once and the report is yours: on screen, usually within a minute, and by email. The check-up comes as a button in your email, so it needs no login either.