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How RestaurantDoctorAI works

A free profit check, a one-time report with a plan, an AI restaurant expert, and free tools for the numbers you run on. Here's what each one does and how, so you can pick where to start.

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  1. The free profit check

    Answer 12 multiple-choice questions about how your restaurant runs. In about 45 seconds you see a grade from A to F, your estimated profit leak a month and a year, your biggest leak, what one point of prime cost is worth, and Day 1 of your plan, so you know where to start.

    No account, no email, no POS or bank logins.

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    Sample resultExample restaurant

    Grade C · Leaking

    8 of its 12 answers need attention

    Estimated recoverable profit leak

    $20,760–$45,840 a year

    Biggest leak: Shifts don't flex with traffic

  2. The full report and plan

    For the whole picture, the report is a one-time $9.99: dollar estimates for every leak, a 72-hour plan, a 30-day roadmap, team cards and worksheets, on screen and by email. The $19.99 report also works from your real numbers and includes a check-up after your plan's first full month.

    No subscription, no account. Fixed formulas set every figure; Google's Gemini writes the words around them.

    Learn more about the reports and their prices

    A screen from the sample report for the example restaurant.

    Your 30-day roadmap

    1. Week 1Days 1–73 fixes

      Set a sales-per-labor-hour line and cut to it

    2. Week 2Days 8–142 fixes

      Work out your prime cost every Monday

    3. Week 3Days 15–212 fixes

      Turn bar spot checks into a weekly pour cost

    4. Week 4Days 22–301 fix

      Ask every guest for a Google review

    Number to watch: Labor cost, with service holding · Weekly

    Your 30-day tracking sheet

    • Prime costWeekly

      Start: ~65% (our estimate) · Target: ≤ 65%

    • Labor cost, with service holdingWeekly

      Target: Moves toward 30–35% of sales, with no longer ticket times or more complaints

    An example US casual-dining restaurant with $60K–$120K in monthly sales, scored by the same model as your report. Yours is built from your own answers.

  3. Ask the AI restaurant expert

    Ask about food cost, labor, tips, prices or your state's rules, so you can decide with numbers you can check. It answers from RestaurantDoctorAI's own sourced library, runs this site's calculators for the math, and lists its sources under each answer.

    5 free questions, no sign-up. Then $9.99 once for a 30-day pass, up to 50 questions a day. It never renews.

    Questions go to Google's Gemini to be answered. We keep how many you ask each day, never what you ask.

    Learn more about the AI restaurant expert

    What it answers from

    • 12guides on costs, labor, prime cost, rent, delivery and more
    • 17blog posts on what's changing for restaurants
    • 28step-by-step fixes from the paid report's playbook
    • 270sourced how-tos, rules and checklists
    • 23sourced facts, each with the day it was checked
    • 5types of restaurant, each with RestaurantDoctorAI's targets

    351 entries in all, each with where to check it.

    Tested on 200 owner-style questions

    4.11 , then 4.38

    average score, out of 5

    Each answer scored by a stronger AI model, before and after the knowledge build of October 10, 2026.

    How it's built

    • It looks things up first

      Before it answers a restaurant question, it searches its library of 351 entries, and reads the whole entry for a how-to, a checklist or a rule. It doesn't browse the web.

    • Calculators do the math

      Give it your figures and it runs one of 6 of this site's calculators, then answers from the result, never from math in its head. State tipped wages come from the US Department of Labor's table.

    • A number check in our code

      Any figure that didn't come from a tool result, its built-in targets and facts, or your own words gets one rewrite. If it's still there, its sentence is cut.

    • Careful with law and tax

      It gives the rule, its official source and who to check with, and a wording check rewrites any answer that says “yes, you can”. It says it's an AI, and it isn't legal, tax or financial advice.

  4. Free calculators

    7 free tools: the prime cost calculator, labor cost calculator, break-even calculator, food cost calculator, delivery app price calculator, deadline calendar and menu calorie counter, worked out from your own figures, so you can check a number before you act on it. Free, no sign-up.

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    Free calculators

    • Prime cost
    • Labor cost
    • Break-even
    • Food cost
    • Delivery prices
    • Deadlines
    • Calories

  5. The free online check

    Type your restaurant's name to see what guests see on Google, what your website gets wrong, how fast it loads on a phone and how you compare with places nearby, so you know what to fix first.

    Your grade and first three fixes are free. The rest opens when you give your email.

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    What the online check looks at

    • Your Google listing
    • What your reviews say
    • Photos on Google
    • Places like yours nearby
    • Your website
    • Speed on a phone

  6. The deadline calendar

    Pick your state and answer a few quick questions to see your tax, payroll, license and permit dates through 2027, each linked to the official page it comes from, so you can file and renew on time.

    All 50 states and Washington DC. Free email reminders, no account.

    Learn more about the deadline calendar

    Next federal dates for a restaurant with staff

    1. Form 941 payroll tax return for July–September 2026

      Moved from Oct 31 (weekend). Source: IRS: Employment tax due dates

    2. Form 940 federal unemployment (FUTA) return for 2026

      Moved from Jan 31 (weekend). Source: IRS: Instructions for Form 940

    3. Form 941 payroll tax return for October–December 2026

      Moved from Jan 31 (weekend). Source: IRS: Employment tax due dates

  7. Use it from your own AI assistant

    Add one address to Claude or another AI assistant that connects to MCP servers, so you can run the free check, the calculators, recipe costing, the website check, the deadline calendar and our library from your chat.

    Free, with no sign-in. Its page shows the server's live status, tested every 10 minutes.

    Learn more about using it from your AI assistant

    Add it to your assistant

    Name
    RestaurantDoctorAI
    Server address
    https://restaurantdoctorai.com/api/mcp
    Sign-in
    None
    Tools
    14
    • restaurantdoctor_get_questions
    • restaurantdoctor_run_free_check
    • restaurantdoctor_cost_recipe
    • restaurantdoctor_check_website
    • + 10 more

Behind every number

How we keep it honest

  • Formulas set the numbers

    The check's grades and dollar figures come from fixed formulas. The free check uses no AI, and in the report AI writes only the words around the figures.

  • Our targets are called ours

    They're RestaurantDoctorAI's targets for each type of restaurant. Where an independent source publishes a line, ours match it; the rest are our own, and we check them against the National Restaurant Association's latest medians.

  • Sources you can check

    Guides and blog posts link their sources where they use them, every deadline links its official page, and the AI expert lists its sources under each answer.

  • No logins to your systems

    We never ask for POS, bank or accounting logins. The figures are estimated ranges from your answers, not an audit of your books.

How we grade: our methodology

Start with the free check

12 questions, about 45 seconds. Your grade and the biggest leak we find show up right away, free.

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