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Restaurant KPIs

Restaurant KPIs are essential tools for measuring a restaurant’s performance and ensuring its continued success. These measurable metrics track the restaurant’s ability to ensure operational excellence and customer satisfaction over time. They provide insights into the restaurant’s functional areas, including food quality, customer service, and operational efficiency. By tracking these restaurant KPIs, restaurant owners and managers can make data-driven decisions to improve the restaurant’s overall performance, drive customer growth and retention, and deliver a quality dining experience. Ultimately, the use of KPIs can help a restaurant stay competitive in a crowded market and build a loyal customer base over time.

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Restaurant Manager Objectives

The success of a restaurant heavily relies on the efficiency of its manager, and therefore, measuring their performance is critical. Restaurant manager objectives are designed to track and measure the manager’s core job efficiencies. These KPIs include revenue per available seat hour, revenue per available square meter, and the reduction of canceled reservations. By tracking these KPIs, restaurant owners and managers can assess the manager’s performance and identify areas for improvement, such as optimizing seating arrangements or improving customer service. Ultimately, the use of restaurant KPIs helps ensure that the restaurant’s operations are efficient, profitable, and provide customers with a positive dining experience, leading to increased customer satisfaction and loyalty.

  • Improve the revenue per available seat hour (RevPASH) – This KPI tracks and measures the restaurant manager’s ability to improve revenue per available seat hour (RevPASH). The higher the revenue generated per available seat hour, the greater the restaurant manager’s successes, and the greater the restaurant’s capacity to generate a profitable income.
  • Improve the revenue per available square meter (RevPAM) – This KPI tracks and measures the revenue generated by the restaurant per available square meter (RevPAM). It is calculated by dividing the total sales by the total square meterage of the dining area. The higher this ratio, the greater the extent to which the restaurant manager is successful.

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  • Improve the revenue per table – This KPI tracks and measures the revenue generated per table over time. The higher this metric, the greater the extent to which the restaurant manager is able to inspire the team to improve the revenue generated per table over time.
  • Improve the amount of dining – This KPI tracks and measures the extent to which the restaurant manager is able to improve the amount of dining metric. This ratio monitored by calculating the average dining bill and how to increase the average customer spend. It speaks volumes about the restaurant customers and how much they spend.
  • Improve (reduce) canceled reservations – Table reservations guarantee income per service. This KPI tracks and measures the restaurant manager’s ability to reduce the canceled reservations over time. The higher this metric, the greater the extent to which the manager can reduce the canceled reservations over time.
  • Increase reserved tables – Reserved tables are the lifeblood of many restaurants. Restaurant managers must ensure that the number of reserved tables per service is increased over time. This KPI tracks and measures the manager’s ability to increase the number of reserved tables over time.
  • Improve the positive feedback from guests – Positive feedback from guests translates into the successful implementation of the restaurant’s business model. This KPI tracks and measures the extent to which the restaurant manager is able to motivate the restaurant team to improve their positive customer feedback metrics.
  • Improve (reduce) complaints per restaurant order – No matter how good the restaurant team is, there will always be complaints, and the aim is to reduce the number of complaints per restaurant order over time. This KPI measures the extent to which the restaurant manager can motivate the team to consistently reduce the number of complaints.
  • Improve (reduce) the unavailability of menu items – Ordering a menu item only to be told it is unavailable results in a negative customer experience. This KPI tracks and measures the restaurant team’s ability to consistently reduce the unavailability of menu items over time to ensure that this scenario never occurs.
  • Increase the number of new menu items – Increasing the number of new menu items meets the changing customer requirements and food trends. This KPI measures the restaurant manager’s ability to regularly increase the number of new items added to the menu. The higher this metric, the greater the manager’s ability to offer clients new menu items.
  • Improve the front of house labor – The front of house labor is a KPI that expresses the percentage of workers to the total workforce tasked with managing the front of house activities. Too many front of house employees will negatively affect the rest of the restaurant’s operations. This KPI measures the front of house metric.

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Restaurant Team Objectives

A successful restaurant depends on the performance of its team, and therefore, measuring their operational efficiencies is crucial. The restaurant team objectives are designed to track and measure the team’s performance. These KPIs include improving the number of guests per table, the foodservice strike rate, the total number of guests served, and customer service time. By tracking these KPIs, restaurant owners and managers can assess the team’s performance and identify areas for improvement, such as optimizing table turnover or improving customer service. Ultimately, the use of KPIs helps ensure that the restaurant’s operations are efficient, profitable, and provide customers with a positive dining experience, leading to increased customer satisfaction and loyalty. With a high-performing team, a restaurant can maintain its success over time and grow its customer base.

  • Improve the guests per table – Seating the maximum number of restaurant guests per service ensures a minimum income generated for every seating. This KPI tracks and measures the restaurant team’s ability to ensure that the maximum number of guests are seated at each table. The higher this metric, the higher the restaurant’s income.
  • Improve the food service strike rate – The food service strike rate measures the number of times customers visit your restaurant and place a food order. This KPI tracks and measures the restaurant team’s ability to increase the food service strike rate. The higher this metric, the greater the team’s successes.

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  • Improve the total number of guests served – The total number of guests served over time directly correlates with the income generated. This KPI tracks and measures the restaurant team’s ability to increase the number of guests served over time. The higher this metric, the greater the number of guests served.
  • Improve customer service time – The customer service time is the time taken for the food and drinks to be served from the time the order was initially taken. This KPI tracks and measures the extent to which the restaurant team is able to reduce the customer service time.
  • Improve the number of customers satisfied with the service time – The number of customers satisfied with the service time correlates directly with an increase in revenue generation metrics. This KPI tracks and measures the restaurant team’s ability to consistently increase the number of customers satisfied with the service time. The higher this metric, the greater the team’s successes.
  • Increase the total tip value – A tip’s value is seen as a customer service measure and denotes positive customer feedback. This KPI tracks the total tip value over time. And it is calculated as the ratio of the total sales per service: The higher this metric, the more excellent the restaurant team’s customer service.
  • Increase the number of tables served per waitron – This KPI tracks and measures the number of tables served per waitron. The higher this metric, the greater the extent to which the restaurant team is able to increase the number of tables served per waitron within the same time frame.

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Restaurant Objectives

The food industry is known for its dynamic and competitive nature, which makes it vital to track and measure restaurant-related objectives. Doing so ensures that your restaurant remains operational and profit-driven, despite the competition in the industry. By using KPIs, restaurant owners and managers can make data-driven decisions, improve operational efficiencies, and provide a positive customer experience, which can lead to increased profitability and customer loyalty over time.

  • Improve the time per table turn – The time per table turn is the amount of time that guests typically remain seated at the table. Reducing the time per table turn while increasing customer satisfaction metrics increases the number of guests seated per service. This KPI tracks and measures the time per table turn over time.
  • Increase the application of principles of workplace safety and sanitation – This KPI tracks and measures the application of principles of workplace safety and sanitation. The higher this metric, the greater the restaurant’s ability to apply the principles of workplace safety and sanitation.

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  • Improve the application of the principles of menu planning – The application of the principles of menu planning is designed to help restaurants plan a successful menu that attracts guests, uses the best ingredients, and is cost-effective. This KPI tracks and measures the restaurant employees and management apply the principles of menu planning.
  • Improve the application of the principles of the purchasing process – Applying the purchasing process principles increases allows for the purchase of the best quality ingredients at the optimal time, reducing wastage and facilitating the creation of the highest quality food, driving customer attraction and retention over time. This KPI measures the restaurant’s ability to apply these purchasing process principles.
  • Improve the product quality uniformity – The product quality uniformity indicates the variance in food quality when measured over time. This KPI tracks and measures the extent to which the restaurant is able to ensure that the product quality uniformity remains continuously high over the restaurant’s lifecycle.
  • Improve (reduce) the food loss – Apart from labor costs, food wastage is one of the highest expenses that a restaurant occurs. This KPI tracks and measures the extent to which the restaurant is able to reduce food loss and keep the wastage metrics down over time.
  • Improve the food costs versus food sales – The food costs versus food sales indicator denotes the percentage of the cost of the raw materials covered by the sales figures. This KPI tracks and measures the proportion of the costs of your food supplies covered from the sales of food items prepared using those raw materials.
  • Improve (reduce) the beverage loss – Beverage losses and wastage eats into the restaurant’s gross profit. It is critical to reduce the losses over time. This KPI tracks and measures the beverage loss and wastage metrics in relation to the total beverage cost to drive down the wastage.

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Restaurant – Business Profitability

  • Gross profit margin – Gross profit margin is calculated as the fraction of gross profit, the total revenue less fixed expenses, to the total revenue in that period.
  • Net profit margin – Net profit margin is calculated as the fraction of net profit, the total revenue less all expenses, to the total revenue in that period.

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  • Prime cost – Prime cost is measured as the sum total of all controllable costs including the labor cost and the actual food cost.
  • Actual food cost or cost of goods sold (CoGS) – CoGS is a measure of how much it costs to produce your food over a given time period.
  • Menu item profitability – Menu item profitability is calculated as the difference of the sales numbers of a specific menu and the total cost incurred in preparing that menu.
  • Break-even point – Break-even point is determined as the milestone at which the business becomes profitable.
  • Cash flow – Cash flow is calculated as the difference of all the money coming into the restaurant business and the total money going out in form of various costs.
  • Inventory turnover ratio – Inventory turnover ratio is calculated as the fraction of the total sales to the average inventory cost in the given period.

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Restaurant – Customers and Servers

  • Average Table Occupancy – Average table occupency is calculated as the fraction of total number of occupied tables to the total number of tables at the restaurant.
  • Per-Person Average (PPA) – Per-Person Average (PPA) of a server is calculated as the total sales attained by that server to the total guests served by him.

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  • Average Table Occupancy – Average table occupency is calculated as the fraction of total number of occupied tables to the total number of tables at the restaurant.
  • Per-Person Average (PPA) – Per-Person Average (PPA) of a server is calculated as the total sales attained by that server to the total guests served by him.
  • Food cost percentage – The food cost percentage is the fraction of the total inventory cost to the total turnover in the given period.
  • Food cost variance – Food cost variance is the fraction of the inventory that goes up in smoke due to pilferage and squandering to the total inventory in the kitchen.
  • Employee turnover percentage – Employee turnover ratio is calculated as the fraction of lost employees to the average number of employees in the give period.
  • Spend per Head – Spend per head is the fraction of total revenue to the total number of customers served in a give period.
  • Labor Cost Ratio – Labor cost ratio is calculated as the fraction of total expenses incurred on labor costs to the total sales in a give period.
  • Table Turnover Rate – Table turnover rate is calculated as the fraction of the period of time to the total number of bookings or guests served in that time period.

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These restaurant KPIs form an integral part of ensuring that the restaurant team and management meet their core efficiencies. They provide critical reference points to monitor the restaurant’s month-on-month performance, ensuring consistency and reliability throughout the restaurant’s lifecycle, facilitating a consistent fine dining experience for all of its patrons.

The restaurant KPIs are divided into three result areas: The restaurant’s objectives, the restaurant manager’s goals, and the restaurant team’s objectives. These result areas are designed to track and measure the three critical areas of the restaurant’s role in providing a quality service to current and future guests.

Using restaurant manager and team objectives aim to ensure operational efficiency and consistency over time. High performing metrics are valued, translating into a practical restaurant business model and method and application thereof. Juxtapositionally, low performing metrics must be revisited to ensure that their performance improves over time.

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