The 10-Minute Honest Check: Free Report

What Is in the Report

The report covers the 12 numbers every restaurant owner should know: prime cost percentage, food cost percentage, labor cost percentage, rent-to-revenue ratio, cash runway in weeks, break-even revenue, average check, table turns, revenue per labor hour, controllable profit margin, owner compensation as a percentage of revenue, and debt service coverage ratio.

Each number comes with a benchmark, a warning threshold, and a plain-English explanation of what it means for your decision.

Why These 12 Numbers

Rod built this framework from 40 years of performance analysis across national chains and independent concepts. At Metromedia Restaurant Group, these were the metrics used to evaluate 700+ locations. The same framework applies to a single-unit independent -- the math does not change with scale.