Sweet Linda

LABOR & SALES · WEEK OF 2026-08-24 → 2026-08-30
rebuilt 2026-08-25 01:14
traced to source · verified twice before publish
16 people · 428 scheduled hours
every figure traced to a source file
Sales data current to 2026-08-24 — pulled 0 minutes ago. page rebuilt just now
Where the business stands

Tue needs $4,762.28. The week's first finished day lands tomorrow morning. Of every $100 that comes in, about $1.70 stays — every night counts.

The biggest lever: labor lands at $10,760.42 fully loaded — 36% of projected sales against the 26% target, $2,997.02 over. Measured from Toast's clock-ins plus the schedule for what is still ahead.

Today, live — Tue$0.00of the $4,762.28 an open day needs · a typical Tue finishes at $1,877.00counts in totals once the day closes
This week vs the need$0.00of the $28,573.68 the week needs · no finished trading day yetsolid = finished days · hatched = today, still live
Costs us per calendar day$4,070.77all 7 days — not a target, nothing can be earned on a dark day
Last complete week$29,265.00week of 08-17 · $691.32 above break-even
On the horizon US Open — Fan Week (free, approx) · tomorrow US Open, main draw · 6d NY Fashion Week, Sept edition (approx — confirm) · 16d Feast of San Gennaro (approx — confirm) · 17d
Needs attention — 1 urgent
highLabor is 39% over the 26% target$2,997.02 more than the $7,763.40 the target allows.
watch3 schedule cells could not be readThose hours are in no total.
watchUS Open, main draw is 6 days out2026-08-31 — worth locking the schedule and any promo now. See Upcoming below.
watchRain forecast on 2 of the next 7 daysThu 08-27, Fri 08-28. See Upcoming below for what rain has actually done to sales here before reacting to it.
infoMon is inventory day22.0 hours clocked, $274.75 in wages — the standing Monday arrangement. Counted in the week's labor as a cost no sales can offset that day.
What do we need to make every day?$4,762.28 on every open day — $28,573.68 a week. That covers everything: drink and food cost, all four ways people are paid, rent, utilities and every vendor bill.
Are we making money?Yes, barely. On the last full months measured, sales averaged $127,798.50 a month and everything the business spends came to $125,680.99 — leaving $2,117.51, 1.7% of sales. A real margin and a thin one: a bad fortnight erases it.
Is this a slow month, or are we slow?August runs at 94% of an average month here — measured from our own 2025 sales. Next two months: 112% and 130% (measured) — the season turns up from here. A thin month in the trough is seasonal; a thin month in the peak is a problem. Judge each month against its own bar.
Is labor under control?36.0% of projected sales fully loaded. But $6,534.33 of it — 61% — is fixed salary and contractors that no schedule changes. Only $4,226.09 of hourly wages and the tax on them responds to how the week is built.
Is the business growing?Last complete week did $29,265.00. Walk-in trading was $29,265.00, up $2,886.00 on the week — inside normal variation, against a typical weekly swing of $4,450.50. Four-week trend is +20%.
What's coming up that needs a decision now?US Open, main draw is 6 days out (2026-08-31). Rain is forecast on 2 of the next 7 days. See Upcoming below for what that's actually done to sales here before reacting to it.

1Scoreboard

the numbers we run the business by

This section answers: “Where do our key numbers stand right now?”

Green means on track against the bar in the middle column; amber means it moves with decisions still open; red means off track. Every bar is stated, none is hidden in the colour.
KPINowThe barStatusMeasured from
Break-even, per open day$4,762.28the bar every open daywatchledger + payroll, Jun–Jul base
Labor, % of sales (fully loaded)36.0%target 26%off trackpunches + roster + employer tax
Prime cost (product + labor)68.9%rule of thumb ≤60%off trackledger, Jun–Jul
Cost of goods, % of sales26.7%liquor-led bars run ~24–30%on trackledger, Jun–Jul
Net margin (EBITDA)1.7%healthy bars run 10–15%off trackfull P&L, Jun–Jul
Schedule accuracy, hours19%100% = worked as plannedwatchpunches vs schedule, this week
Overtime scheduled this week0.0 h0 by design — OT should be bought by a call-outon trackthe schedule as written
Spend per guest (2026-07)$37.78prior month $47.85watchToast orders & guests

Each figure links to its full story in the sector that owns it — this table is the reading, not the argument. A KPI moved here only when it has a real bar to be judged against; a number without a bar is trivia, not a KPI.

2Schedule & Labor

2026-08-24 → 2026-08-30 · 16 people rostered

This section answers: “What did the week cost, and did it go to plan?”

Today so far · Tue 25$0.000 orders · 0 guests — 100% behind a typical Tue ($1,877.00)
On the floor today38.3 h4 people rostered · $445.83 in hourly pay

Live from the Toast Orders API, pulled 05:14 UTC. Today is deliberately kept out of the week's totals below — a part-day figure would distort every ratio on the page.

What the schedule costs$11,001.78W-2 payroll $9,715.77 + employer tax $786.01 + 1099 $500.00
Labor target this week$7,763.4026% of projected net sales of $29,859 — the binding one. The other (hard ceiling of $9,000 a week, whatever sales do) allows $9,000.00.
Over target+$2,997.02+38.6% against the target
What would close it$41,386.23weekly sales at this exact schedule — $11,526.98 more than projected. Or cut about 310 hourly hours.
actual $10,760.42target marker $7,763.40

Day by day — where the week is heading

Hourly pay is the part a scheduling decision changes — hourly staff only, and the Week cell is the sum of this column. Fixed share spreads the week's salary and 1099 evenly across open days — a presentation choice, shown separately so it is never mistaken for a cost the schedule controls.
DayHoursPeopleHourly payFixed shareNet salesvs expectedLabor %Week to date
Mon 2422.04$274.75
Tue 2538.34$445.83$1,013.78$1,877.00 proj84%100%
Wed 2646.85$501.87$1,013.78$3,004.25 proj54%72%
Thu 2782.310$733.69$1,013.78$3,990.00 proj47%61%
Fri 2894.310$927.50$1,013.78$9,420.50 proj22%41%
Sat 29105.312$1,026.97$1,013.78$10,131.50 proj22%34%
Sun 3039.04$222.47$1,013.78$1,436.00 proj93%37%
Week428.1$4,133.08$6,082.69$29,859.2537%

0 of 6 trading days have a note in config/daily_log.json. Days without one get explained in the meeting by whichever story sounds best — write them the same night, while it is still recall rather than reconstruction.

Fixed pay is $6,082.69 a week whatever the schedule does — 55% of total labor. Only the $4,133.08 of hourly wages responds to how the week is built.

The schedule, costed shift by shift — every cell, every rate, every assumption
Who Mon 24
closed
Tue 25
00:00
Wed 26
00:00
Thu 27
01:00
Fri 28
02:00
Sat 29
02:00
Sun 30
21:30
HoursCost
Dish / Porter
Jhony Andrade$975.00/wk salary
8:00 AM - 3:00 PM8.0 h · flat weekly
7:00 AM - 3:30 PM9.5 h · flat weekly
7:00 AM - 4:00 PM10.0 h · flat weekly
7:00 AM - 4:00 PM10.0 h · flat weekly
10:00am to 7:00PM10.0 h · flat weekly
47.5$975.00
Jorge Genaro$20.00/h
6:00 PM - 11:59 PM7.0 h · $139.67
5:30 PM - 1:30 AM9.0 h · $180.00
6pm PM - 3:00 AM10.0 h · $200.00
6pm PM - 3:00 AM10.0 h · $200.00
36.0$719.67
Tomas Calel Sente$19.00/h
6:00 AM - 12:00 PM7.0 h · $133.00
7.0$133.00
Bartenders
Calum Powers$12.00/h
4:00 PM - CLOSE9.2 h · $110.00
6:00 PM - CLOSE8.2 h · $98.00
6:00 PM - CLOSE9.2 h · $110.00
26.5$318.00
Jennifer Huynh$17.00/h
INVENTORY 1:00 PM5.0 h · $85.00
3:00 PM - 1st cut8.0 h · $136.00
3:00 PM - 1st Cut9.0 h · $153.00
6:00 PM - CLOSE9.2 h · $155.83
31.2$529.83
Madeline Marquis Samid$12.00/h
3:30 PM - CLOSE9.7 h · $116.00
9.7$116.00
Sophia Abreu$12.00/h
3:00 PM - 1st Cut9.0 h · $108.00
12:00 PM - 9:30 pm10.5 h · $126.00
19.5$234.00
Servers
Callie Spears$17.00/h
4:00 PM - CLOSE9.2 h · $155.83
3:30 - 1st Cut8.5 h · $144.50
6:00 PM - 2ND CUT7.5 h · $127.50
25.2$427.83
Eisa Bush$11.35/h
4:00 PM - 1ST CUT7.0 h · $79.45
3:30 PM - 1st cut8.5 h · $96.47
2:00 PM - 9:30PM8.5 h · $96.47
24.0$272.39
Gianna Cooper$12.00/h
4:00 PM - CLOSE9.2 h · $110.00
6:00 PM - Close9.2 h · $110.00
18.3$220.00
Katherine Dyball$11.35/h OFF OFF OFF OFF 0.0$0.00
Teresa Van Beek$11.35/h
6:00 PM - CLOSE8.2 h · $92.69
ON CALLnot costed
8:00 PM - CLOSE7.2 h · $81.34
15.3$174.03
Barbacks
Angel Morel$15.00/h
3:00 PM - CLOSE12.0 h · $180.00
3:00 PM - CLOSE14.0 h · $210.00
2:00 PM - 1st Cut10.0 h · $150.00
1:00 PMnot costed
36.0$540.00
David DeBiasi$11.35/h
PREP/INVENTORY 1:00 PM5.0 h · $56.75
3:00 PM - CLOSE12.0 h · $136.20
3:00 PM - CLOSE13.0 h · $147.55
7:30 PM - CLOSE9.5 h · $107.83
39.5$448.33
Kitchen
Brian Ramirez$1,200.00/wk salary
4:00 PM - 8:00 PM5.0 h · flat weekly
4:00 PMnot costed
4:00 PM - 9:00 PM6.0 h · flat weekly
4:00 PM - 11:00 PM8.0 h · flat weekly
4:00 PM - 11:00 PM8.0 h · flat weekly
27.0$1,200.00
Lidia Tian$1,100.00/wk salary
3:00 PM - 11:00 PM9.0 h · flat weekly
5:00 PM - 11:30 PM7.5 h · flat weekly
4:30 PM - 12:00AM8.5 h · flat weekly
4:30 PM - 12:00AM8.5 h · flat weekly
12:00 PM - 9:00 PM10.0 h · flat weekly
43.5$1,100.00
HOST/FLOOR
Sarano rate
5:30 PM - 10:30PM6.0 h · —
5:00pm - 12:00AM8.0 h · —
5:00 pm - 12:00 AM8.0 h · —
22.0$0.00
Day total 22.0 h
$274.75
38.3 h
$445.83
46.8 h
$501.87
82.3 h
$733.69
94.3 h
$927.50
105.3 h
$1,026.97
39.0 h
$222.47
428.1$7,408.08
shift with a printed start and endend resolved from policy (CLOSE / 1st Cut / 2nd Cut / PREP)hours known, no rate on file — costs $0

Cell cost is hours × that person's base rate. Overtime is a property of the week, not of one shift, so the 0.0 overtime hours this week are added at the week level ($0.00) and never smeared across individual cells. Day totals cover hourly staff only.

Where the week is actually landing

Toast's clock-in record is the truth for the 1 finished day; the schedule only covers what is still ahead. Weighing them that way is a different number from the plan, and a better one.

Schedule as written$11,001.78the plan, all seven days · 36.8% of sales
Actual so far + rest of schedule$10,760.42$51.45 recorded by Toast + $3,858.34 still to come · 36.0% of sales
Calibrated to schedule accuracy$7,369.82remaining days scaled by 19%, the rate the schedule has actually predicted cost this week · 24.7% of sales
How accurate the schedule isAcross 1 finished days the schedule called 22.0 hours and Toast recorded 4.119% of plan. On cost it was closer: $274.75 planned against $51.45 recorded, 19%. Cost tracks better than hours because the misses are concentrated in cheaper roles and in people working different jobs than rostered. Only 1 finished days sit behind that factor, so treat it as directional.

The schedule against what actually happened

Across the 1 day that have finished (2026-08-24 → 2026-08-24), the floor ran 17.9 hours under the schedule and cost $223.30 less. Only finished days are compared; a shift still running would read as an underrun.

Actual cost uses the wage Toast attached to each punch — the figure it will actually pay — not our rate table. A difference between the two is a finding, not a rounding argument.
WhoPlanned hActual hΔhPlanned $Actual $Δ$Jobs actually worked
Tomas never clocked in7.00.0-7.0$133.00$0.00-133
Jenn (LEAD BAR)5.02.9-2.1$85.00$37.83-47Bar Prep 2.9h
David5.01.2-3.8$56.75$13.62-43Barback 1.2h
Bryan never clocked in5.00.0-5.0$0.00$0.00+0
Total22.04.1-17.9$274.75$51.45-223

Where the money moved, and why: David $43.13 under — worked Barback. Jenn (LEAD BAR) $47.17 under — worked Bar Prep. The schedule assumes a person's department sets their wage. Toast pays the wage attached to the job they actually clock into.

Is the schedule the right shape?

Labor % says whether the week is over-staffed in total. It cannot say whether people are on when money arrives. Both columns below are shares of their own total, so they compare directly.

Sales pooled across every loaded period; labor is this week's schedule. Event hours are excluded — a private event books as one check at whatever hour it was rung, and staffing to that would be staffing to an artefact.
Part of the dayShare of salesShare of laborHourly payStaff-hours
Before 5pm
prep, deliveries, porters
1.7%16.8%$695.73105+15 pts more labor than revenue
5–7pm build
doors open, room fills
19.2%15.9%$659.2072in proportion
7–10pm peak
the money
56.3%29.6%$1,224.38122carries the week on 30% of labor
10pm–midnight
late service
19.6%18.5%$764.2370in proportion
After midnight
last call and breakdown
3.2%19.1%$789.5759+16 pts more labor than revenue

36% of hourly wages sits in the two blocks that produce 4.9% of revenue — $1,485.30 across 164 staff-hours. Prep has to happen before service and the bar has to be broken down after it, so this is not waste by definition. It is the biggest single question the schedule raises.

So what Tue (84%), Sun (93%) cover labor and little else: $399.05 left across those days for rent, drink cost and profit combined. This is not a scheduling failure — hourly pay on those days is only $668.30. It is fixed cost landing on days without the volume to carry it, so the lever is revenue or open days, not hours. To reach the 26% target this week the schedule as built needs $41,386.23 in sales — $11,526.98 more than currently projected.

3Hourly vs Salary

39% of labor moves with the schedule

This section answers: “Which labor dollars can we actually move?”

Of $10,760.42 in fully loaded labor this week, $4,226.09 is bought by the hour and $6,534.33 is owed whatever the schedule says. Only the first responds to sending someone home early.

Hourly$4,226.0912 people · 39% of labor · 14.2% of sales
Salary$6,034.334 people · 56% of labor · 20.2% of sales
1099 / contractor$500.001 person · 5% of labor · 1.7% of sales
Employer payroll tax is owed on W-2 wages only. A 1099 vendor is real money and carries none of it — putting contractors inside the payroll base would invent tax nobody owes.
TrackWhat decides the amountWagesEmployer taxFully loadedShare
Hourlypunched so far + scheduled for the rest of the week$3,909.79$316.30$4,226.0939%
Salaryflat weekly amounts, whatever the hours$5,582.69$451.64$6,034.3356%
1099 / contractorflat weekly vendor cost — no employer payroll tax$500.00none owed$500.005%
Totalat 8.09% employer burden on W-2 wages$9,992.48$767.94$10,760.42100%

Salary — flat every week, no overtime

$5,582.69 in salaries, of which $3,275.00 buys 118.0 posted hours on the shift grid and $2,307.69 carries no shifts at all. The effective rate below is a comparison, not a wage — it moves every week with the schedule and nobody is paid it. What it does show is when a salary starts earning its keep: past 40 hours the same time bought hourly would carry time-and-a-half.

WhoDepartmentWeekly salaryHoursEffective $/hOver 40On the shift grid
GMManagement$2,307.69none on fileno — payroll only
Brian RamirezKitchen$1,200.0027.0 scheduled hours$44.44yes — scheduled shifts, flat cost
Lidia TianKitchen$1,100.0043.5 scheduled hours$25.293.5 h · $44.26 of overtime not owedyes — scheduled shifts, flat cost
Jhony AndradeDish / Porter$975.0047.5 scheduled hours$20.537.5 h · $76.99 of overtime not owedyes — scheduled shifts, flat cost
Total$5,582.69118.0$121.25

Hourly — priced by the punch clock

$3,909.79 in wages, from punched so far + scheduled for the rest of the week — 1 finished day of punches. The schedule as written called $4,133.08.

Person by person: scheduled vs clocked — who worked what, at which wage
Scheduled against clocked, per person. Punch hours cover finished days only, so someone rostered later in the week correctly shows fewer.
WhoDepartmentRateScheduled hClocked hScheduled costClocked cost
Jorge GenaroDish / Porter$20.0036.00.0$719.67$0.00
Angel MorelBarbacks$15.0036.00.0$540.00$0.00
Jennifer HuynhBartenders$17.00 clocks $13.0031.22.9$529.83$37.83
David DeBiasiBarbacks$11.3539.51.2$448.32$13.62
Callie SpearsServers$17.0025.20.0$427.83$0.00
Calum PowersBartenders$12.0026.50.0$318.00$0.00
Eisa BushServers$11.3524.00.0$272.40$0.00
Sophia AbreuBartenders$12.0019.50.0$234.00$0.00
Gianna CooperServers$12.0018.30.0$220.00$0.00
Teresa Van BeekServers$11.3515.30.0$174.03$0.00
Tomas Calel SenteDish / Porter$19.007.00.0$133.00$0.00
Madeline Marquis SamidBartenders$12.009.70.0$116.00$0.00
Total288.14.1$4,133.08$51.45

1099 — flat vendor cost, no employer tax

WhoRoleWeeklyWhy it sits apart
SaraHost$500.00Paid as a vendor, not an employee — no FICA, FUTA, SUTA or MCTMT is owed, and they will never appear in Toast.

Overtime — what the clock recorded

No hourly overtime so far this week, and nobody currently on the schedule is on pace to cross 40 hours. Toast's payroll engine decides which hours are overtime; this reads its verdict rather than re-deriving one.

Why Toast says 0.2% and this page says 36.0%

Both are right. Toast's Labor cost screen prices the punch clock — that is all a POS can see. It has no way to know about a salary nobody clocks, a 1099 vendor who was never an employee, or the payroll tax the restaurant owes on top of every W-2 dollar. Every step between the two figures is below, so the next time the two screens disagree the answer takes ten seconds instead of an afternoon.

StepWhy it is thereAmount% of sales
What Toast's Labor cost screen showshourly wages on approved punches — Toast's own figure$51.450.2%
+ Rest of the week, still scheduleddays that have not been worked yet, priced from the schedule$3,858.3413.1%
+ Salaries — nobody clocks a salaryflat weekly pay Toast's labor screen cannot see$5,582.6931.8%
+ Employer payroll tax at 8.09%FICA, FUTA, SUTA, MCTMT on W-2 wages — owed, and on no labor report$767.9434.4%
+ 1099 contractora real weekly labor bill, outside payroll entirely$500.0036.0%
What labor actually costevery dollar the business paid for people this week$10,760.4236.0%

Toast's figure is the right one for asking whether a shift was worth running. This one is the right one for asking whether the business made money. Quote one number in one room and the other in another, and the business ends up believing two different things about itself.

So what $6,534.33 of this week's labor is decided before the schedule is written — $5,582.69 in salary, $500.00 on 1099, plus employer tax on the W-2 part. Every hour a manager cuts comes out of the $4,226.09 hourly side, so a 10% cut there is $422.61 off the week, not $1,076.04. The other lever on the fixed side is hours, not dollars: 118 salaried hours are already paid for, and moving them onto the busiest shifts costs nothing extra.

4Monthly Expenses

43 vendors · 2 complete months

This section answers: “Where does the money go every month?”

The room has to take $4,762.28 on every open day just to break even.

That is $123,819.28 a month across 26.0 open days — five trading days a week, not thirty calendar days. Dividing by the calendar would set the bar $4,127.31 and be wrong by forty percent every day of the year.

Per open day$4,762.28the minimum. Below it the day loses money
Per week$28,573.68five open days
Per month$123,819.28$65,889.33 of fixed cost ÷ 53% contribution margin
Against actual+$3,979.222026-06, 2026-07 averaged $127,798.50 a month

The P&L, monthly average

Every line measured over 2026-06, 2026-07 — the months where the sales history and the ledger both cover the full month. Labor is measured from the ledger, so nothing here is a projection.

LinePer month% of salesWhat it is
Net sales$127,798.50100.0%what the room took, after discounts and voids
Cost of goods-$34,177.21-26.7%liquor, wine, beer, food — moves with every dollar sold
Gross profit$93,621.2973.3%what is left to pay for everything else
Labor, fully loaded-$53,929.88-42.2%wages, payroll tax and workers' comp
Operating expenses-$37,573.90-29.4%rent, utilities, supplies, marketing, insurance, professional fees
Profit before tax$2,117.511.7%what the business actually kept

How the daily number is built

StepValueWhy
Cost of goods26.7% of salesevery dollar sold carries this before anything else
Hourly labor20.0% of salesthe part of labor that moves with the schedule
Contribution margin53.2%what each dollar of sales leaves behind to pay fixed cost
Fixed cost, non-labor$37,573.90 / morent, utilities, insurance, subscriptions — arrives empty or full
Fixed cost, labor$28,315.43 / mosalaries and the 1099, which no schedule changes
Break-even$4,762.28 / open day$65,889.33 ÷ 53.2% ÷ 26.0 open days

Where the money goes

Monthly average across 2026-06, 2026-07. Cost of goods is marked variable because it moves with sales; everything else arrives whether or not anyone comes in.
CategoryBehavesPer month% of salesVendors
Liquorvariable$19,119.4515.0%8
Rent & occupancyfixed$18,692.3214.6%1
Foodvariable$10,818.488.5%3
Electricityfixed$2,829.072.2%1
Cleaning suppliesfixed$2,729.292.1%2
Winevariable$2,396.601.9%1
Subscriptions & softwarefixed$2,314.741.8%7
Insurancefixed$2,308.781.8%1
Paper suppliesfixed$1,671.931.3%2
Accountingfixed$1,500.001.2%1
Marketingfixed$1,329.571.0%2
Beervariable$1,015.820.8%2
Equipment rentalfixed$927.620.7%2
Advertisingfixed$853.670.7%3
Other beveragevariable$826.870.6%3
Waste removalfixed$696.800.5%1
BOH suppliesfixed$419.090.3%1
FOH suppliesfixed$392.360.3%1
Maintenancefixed$250.000.2%1
Telephone & internetfixed$241.810.2%2
Pest controlfixed$206.860.2%1
Office suppliesfixed$117.560.1%1
Repairs — equipmentfixed$112.130.1%1
Photography & printingfixed$36.490.0%1
Other expensesfixed$27.070.0%1
General & adminfixed$7.660.0%1
Meals & entertainmentfixed$7.620.0%1
Other operatingfixed$7.360.0%1
Unclassifiedfixed-$105.88-0.1%1
Total non-labor$71,751.1156.1%43

The vendors that matter

Biggest first. A cost review that starts anywhere else is spending its attention where the money is not.
VendorWhat forPer monthAvg billBillsCadence
DOUGLAS ELLIMAN PMRent & occupancy$18,692.32$4,153.859every month
SOUTHERN GLAZER'S OF NY METROLiquor$13,927.08$2,321.1812every month
Baldor FoodsFood$10,745.09$537.2540every month
CON EDISONElectricity$2,829.07$2,829.072every month
Union Beer DistributorsLiquor$2,761.95$306.8818every month
Empire MerchantsLiquor$2,533.60$723.887every month
Fruit of the VinWine$2,396.60$399.4312every month
IPFSInsurance$2,308.78$2,308.782every month
Provisional categories — $14,217.19 awaiting a real one

These vendors had no usable category in the ledger, so each has been given a working label. The money is in every total and is marked provisional wherever it appears, because a working guess that stops looking like a guess is worse than no guess at all. Confirm each and the label becomes permanent.

  1. Frank W. PalilloPalillo — purpose unknown, $9,979.00 across 1 bill
    $9,979.00 billed 2026-03-11 (doc 3112026) and $1,479.00 paid 2026-05-11. No memo, no GL account, no itemisation, and no other bills from this vendor to infer from. A personal name at this size is usually a professional — attorney, architect, expediter, contractor — or a distribution, and those belong in very different places on a P&L. Held as provisional until the engagement is identified.
  2. Shelter PointDisability & PFL insurance, $3,738.19 across 1 bill
    The bank memo reads 'CO NAME=SHELTERPOINT'. ShelterPoint Life underwrites New York statutory disability and Paid Family Leave, which every NY employer must carry — so this is almost certainly the DBL/PFL premium. One bill of $3,738.19 on 2026-02-17 with no itemisation, which is consistent with an annual or semi-annual premium rather than a monthly one. CONFIRM: is this DBL/PFL, and what period does it cover? If it is annual, it should be spread across the year rather than landing on February.
  3. Erica LevySocial media & events, $500.00 across 1 bill
    $500.00 flat, billed 2026-08-03 to a generic operating account. Matches the Erika described in config/roster.json — social media and events support, 1099 contractor LLC, flat $500/week — who management removed from the labor base on 2026-08-14. Treated as the same person pending payroll confirmation. If it is, this is labor, not an operating expense, and the bucket should become 'payroll' so it is not counted twice: once here and once in the weekly labor number. Only one $500 bill appears in the ledger period, which does not look like a weekly arrangement.
Large bills outside the measured months

These landed before the months this sector averages, so they are in no monthly figure here. If any is an annual cost, its twelfth belongs in the fixed base and break-even is understated by that much:

  1. Frank W. Palillo — $9,979.00 in 2026-03 · would add $831.58/month if it is an annual cost
  2. Balter Sales Company Inc. — $6,991.13 in 2026-01 · would add $582.59/month if it is an annual cost
  3. Shelter Point — $3,738.19 in 2026-02 · would add $311.52/month if it is an annual cost
  4. BFA NYC LLC — $2,762.50 in 2026-08 · would add $230.21/month if it is an annual cost
  5. For Your Party — $2,053.10 in 2026-03 · would add $171.09/month if it is an annual cost
So what $4,762.28 an open day is the line. Sat medians $10,131.50 and Sun medians $1,436.00 — so the weekend pays for the week and the quiet days are carried. That is not a failure of Sun; it is what a fixed cost base does to a slow night. The levers are the ones sector 2 named: the hourly half of labor, and whether a quiet day is worth opening at all.

5Break-even

every expense, one number

This section answers: “What do we have to make to stay above water?”

Sweet Linda has to take $4,762.28 every open day, $28,573.68 a week, to cover everything it spends.

Below that, the day loses money. Above it, every extra dollar keeps 53 cents.

Covers everything: drink and food cost, all four ways people are paid, rent, utilities, every vendor bill. Measured over 2026-06, 2026-07.

One caveat while Sundays are new: the six-day bar assumes Sunday becomes a real trading day, and there is no Sunday sales history yet. The first few measured Sundays will test that assumption — until then Sunday's share of the bar is a plan, not a record.

Two daily numbers, and only one is a target. The business costs $4,070.77 a calendar day — rent does not skip Monday. But money can only arrive on a day we are open, so the number to hit is $4,762.28. Aim at $4,070.77 five times a week and the week lands $8,219.83 short with every daily figure looking green.

Must take, per open day$4,762.28the target — 26.0 open days a month
Costs us, per calendar day$4,070.77all 7 days. Rent lands on a Monday too
Per week$28,573.68five trading days
Per month$123,819.28the whole cost base

Everything the business spends

Variable costs arrive with the sale. Fixed costs arrive anyway.

ExpenseBehavesPer monthPer open dayWhere it comes from
Cost of goodsvariable$34,177.21$1,314.5126.7% of sales — liquor, wine, beer, food
Hourly laborvariable$25,614.45$985.1720.0% of sales — the part a schedule moves
Salaries and 1099fixed$28,315.43$1,089.06flat every week, whatever the hours
Rent and occupancyfixed$18,692.32$718.94the largest single fixed bill
Utilitiesfixed$3,070.88$118.11electric, phone, alarm
Everything elsefixed$15,810.72$608.10supplies, marketing, insurance, professional fees, subscriptions
Everything$125,681.01$4,833.89at $127,798.50 of sales a month

Which days actually clear it

The bar is $4,762.28 every open day — rent does not care what day it is. What each day takes is not the same at all.

DayTypical salesNeedsGapVerdict
Tue$1,877.00$4,762.28-$2,885.28does not cover itself
Wed$3,004.25$4,762.28-$1,758.03does not cover itself
Thu$3,990.00$4,762.28-$772.28does not cover itself
Fri$9,420.50$4,762.28+$4,658.22clears it, and carries part of another day
Sat$10,131.50$4,762.28+$5,369.22clears it, and carries part of another day
Sun$1,436.00$4,762.28-$3,326.28does not cover itself

$8,741.87 a week is carried by Friday and Saturday. That is what a fixed cost base does when it is spread over five days and the money arrives on two. The question is not how to fix Tuesday — it is whether Tuesday is worth opening, which should be a decision rather than an accident.

What would move the number

If this changedBreak-even per day becomesChangeWhat it would take
Cost of goods improves 2 points$4,590.12-$172.16pour cost from 26.7% to 24.7% — pricing, portioning or supplier terms
Hourly labor comes down 3 points$4,508.46-$253.82the schedule, not the wage — sector 2 shows which hours are reachable
Rent were 10% lower$4,627.54-$134.74a renegotiation, not an operating decision
One more open day a week$4,762.65+$0.37same fixed cost spread over six days instead of five
What this number does not include

Stated so the figure is not quoted as more complete than it is:

  1. Capital spending. Leasehold improvements and furniture are in the ledger and deliberately excluded — they are investment, not the cost of opening the doors.
  2. Income tax. Break-even here is profit before tax.
  3. Anything not yet in the accounts. The ledger runs to 2026-08-14. A bill that has not been entered cannot be counted.
  4. $14,217.19 sitting in provisional categories. It is inside the total, but the label on it is a working guess — see sector 3.
So what The business clears break-even by $3,979.22 a month — about 0.8 days of trading. That is a real margin and a thin one: a fortnight of weather, one closed week, or labor drifting three points would erase it. The protection is not a bigger Friday — it is the gap between $4,762.28 and what Tuesday and Wednesday actually take.

6Business Economics

2026-06, 2026-07

This section answers: “What does the business actually earn — and what would a buyer see?”

EBITDA / month$2,117.511.7% of sales. No interest and no depreciation are on file, so this equals operating profit — the word is bigger than the difference
Prime cost68.9%product + all labor = $88,107.09 a month. The full-service rule of thumb is ~60%
One point of prime cost$1,277.98per month, straight to profit. The gap to the benchmark is $11,374.07 a month

Unit economics — what one guest, one order, one day is worth

MonthNet salesPer orderPer guestPer open dayGuests / day
2026-06$137,532.50$94.14$47.85$5,979.67125
2026-07$118,064.50$66.03$37.78$5,133.24136

Spend per guest moved $47.85 → $37.78 while guests per day moved 125 → 136 — more people, spending less each. June carries a large private event, so part of that swing is mix, not behaviour.

What this view still cannot see
  1. Depreciation. $3,811.38 of capital spend sits outside the P&L with no schedule to spread it.
  2. Debt. The ledger shows no loan payments. If any exist outside this account, EBITDA and profit are overstated.
  3. Cash. Transactions are recorded, balances are not — profitable and out of cash look identical here.
  4. Sales tax in the bank is not ours. At NYC's 8.875%, roughly $11,342.12 a month of collected tax passes through the account on its way to the state — an estimate, but the right size. A bank balance that does not mentally subtract it reads richer than it is.
So what The business earns 1.7% at the operating line. The lever is the same one everywhere else on this page: prime cost at 68.9% against a ~60% bar. Close a third of that gap and EBITDA roughly triples.

7ZBiotics

61 units since launch · 0 this week

This section answers: “Do tables that order ZBiotics spend more than identical tables that don't?”

Tables that order ZBiotics spend more than the same-size tables that don't — at every size, on the same nights. Orange is the typical check that bought ZBiotics; red bought nothing but was comped one; grey had none. Private-event checks are excluded from all three.

Solo at the bar6 bought · 329 without
$69.00
$32.00
+$37per table
2-person table16 bought · 488 without
$83.50
$60.00
+$24per table
3-person table3 bought · 107 without
$246.00
$91.00
+$155small sample
4-person table5 bought · 1 comped · 58 without
$173.00
$38.00
$118.50
+$54per table
Big table (5+)3 bought · 37 without
$416.00
$179.00
+$237small sample

The clearest proof is the 2-person table — our most common table, with the most evidence: 16 of them ordered ZBiotics and typically spent $83.50; the 488 that didn't spent $60.00. Same nights, same size, $23.50 more per table.

Week by week: sold, given free, and the covers not reached

purchased   comped free   covers with no ZBiotics on the check — all on one scale: the grey bar is the untouched market each week.

1
0
638
07-20
8
0
688
07-27
25
1
902
08-03
14
0
798
08-10
13
13
763
08-17

Where the stock went: 61 sold at the register, 14 comped free, 8 consumed at private events (rung to record a buyout's consumption, then voided when the event paid its flat minimum — paid for, just not per item). Total out of stock: 83 units. On comps: roughly one free for every 4 sold — a comp that starts a habit is cheap marketing; a comp that replaces a sale is a discount.

The target: 300 units a month — about 69 a week, 2.8× the best week so far (25.0 units). At the observed 2 units per table, that is ~35 tables a week saying yes — roughly one check in ten. Honest read: the demand pattern supports it, but no week has come close yet; it takes the offer at every table, every night, plus “one for everyone?” at the bigger tops. The bars above are the scoreboard.

The tables that say yes — and how much they take

Every table that has ordered ZBiotics since launch: visits with it on the check, total units consumed there, and what those checks came to. A repeat table is a habit forming — worth knowing by name.
TableRoomVisitsUnitsUnits/visitRevenue on those checks
102Room 1263.0$472.00
B7Disco Room263.0$679.00
H1Room 2351.7$248.00
302Disco Room252.5$668.00
Nook2Disco Room242.0$347.00
205Room 2144.0$285.00
103Room 1231.5$222.00
301Disco Room133.0$416.00
Nook1Disco Room221.0$175.00
B5Disco Room221.0$122.00
B9Disco Room122.0$66.00
405OUTDOOR122.0$277.00
202Room 2122.0$106.00
B1Disco Room122.0$78.00
D7Disco Room122.0$64.00
H2Room 2122.0$85.00
104Room 1122.0$95.00
B8Disco Room111.0$56.00
200Room 2111.0$83.00
204Room 2111.0$151.00
B2Disco Room111.0$48.00
101Room 1111.0$173.00
B10Disco Room111.0$28.00
CDisco Room111.0$8.00
The detail — every ZBiotics check, where they sat, who sold it, and the fine print

Where they sat: Disco Room 18 (55%) · Room 2 8 (24%) · Room 1 6 (18%) · OUTDOOR 1 (3%).

DateTableRoomGuestsUnitsCheck
08-22Nook1Disco Room31$101.00
08-22103Room 112$159.00
08-21Nook2Disco Room21$101.00
08-21H1Room 221$52.00
08-21B9Disco Room22$66.00
08-21B8Disco Room21$56.00
08-21405OUTDOOR52$277.00
08-21102Room 122$138.00
08-20200Room 221$83.00
08-15B7Disco Room22$24.00
08-15B5Disco Room11$32.00
08-15302Disco Room61$446.00
08-14204Room 221$151.00
08-14H1Room 222$84.00
08-14202Room 222$106.00
08-14Nook1Disco Room41$74.00
08-12Nook2Disco Room33$246.00
08-12B5Disco Room11$90.00
08-08B1Disco Room22$78.00
08-08103Room 121$63.00
08-08102Room 144$334.00
08-08D7Disco Room42$64.00
08-06302Disco Room44$222.00
08-06301Disco Room53$416.00
08-06B7Disco Room14$655.00
08-05B2Disco Room11$48.00
08-05H1Room 222$112.00
08-05H2Room 222$85.00
07-31104Room 122$95.00
07-31101Room 141$173.00
07-31B10Disco Room11$28.00
07-30205Room 234$285.00
07-23CDisco Room21$8.00
Units taken, by party size — bigger tables rarely take one each, which is the upsell: “one for everyone?”
Party sizeZ tablesAvg units
161.7
2161.6
332.7
452.4
5+32.0

Observational: cannot separate 'ZBiotics drives spend' from 'big-night tables buy ZBiotics'. Either way the gap is real money and prices the attach the same. Sold so far by: Gianna Cooper (17), Jennifer Huynh (15), Eisa Bush (13), Callie Spears (7), Calum Powers (4). Party sizes and tables are Toast's own records. Study refreshed 2026-08-24.

So what Offer it to every table. Whichever way the cause runs, a yes marks the best table in the room — and at bigger tables, “one for everyone?” is the easiest unsold revenue in this sector.

8Team

last 28 days · 11 ringing checks

This section answers: “Who is strong at what — and who needs what next?”

The numbers are Toast's — who rang what, sized how, on which nights. The words are management's, added over time in config/team_profiles.json. Revenue credits the server on the check: a lens on contribution, not a commission scoreboard.

The measured picture, last 28 days. “Best night” needs at least two shifts on that weekday to count.
WhoTeamChecksRevenue rungMedian checkBest nightZBioticsThank-yous
Callie SpearsServers296$26,987.50$80.00Wed $135.00/check72
Eisa BushServers214$16,828.00$61.50Thu $91.53/check122
Gianna CooperServers172$13,971.50$79.00Wed $82.35/check1710
Jennifer HuynhBartenders267$13,192.00$40.00Wed $85.60/check159
Teresa Van BeekServers116$10,161.00$70.50Fri $93.15/check1
Katherine DyballServers69$5,686.00$64.00Wed $87.35/check26
Calum PowersBartenders125$5,420.00$40.00Thu $56.30/check49
Madeline Marquis SamidBartenders37$1,895.00$40.00Wed $53.79/check14
Angel MorelBarbacks6$554.00$41.00Sun $102.40/check
Jorge GenaroDish / Porter1$39.00$39.00
David DeBiasiBarbacks1$9.00$9.00
The playbook — the research this sector runs on, and how each finding is used here
FindingSourceHow Sweet Linda uses it
The #1 predictor of team performance is psychological safety — whether people feel safe flagging a mistake — not who is on the team.Google, Project Aristotle (2012–15, 180+ teams studied)Errors and comps on this page are information for fixing systems, never ammunition. They are shown as context beside volume, and the page never ranks people.
People who get to use their strengths every day are about six times as engaged; strengths-based development lifted sales 10–19% across Gallup's meta-analysis.Gallup strengths research (decades, millions of workers)Profiles lead with strengths, and the schedule is built from “works best” — put people where they already shine before coaching anything.
Hospitality performance is 51% emotional skills, 49% technical. Six traits to hire and grow: optimistic warmth, curiosity, work ethic, empathy, self-awareness, integrity.Danny Meyer, Setting the Table (Union Square Hospitality)Those six traits are this page's profile vocabulary — each person's leading traits are tagged on their card.
Every guest interaction has a teachable structure: approach warmly, probe politely, present a solution, listen, end with a warm goodbye.Apple Retail, five Steps of ServiceThe coaching script for new floor staff — and the ZBiotics offer lives at the “probe/present” step, not as a hard sell at the end.
Short, regular one-on-ones are a manager's highest-leverage hours — and one growth area at a time beats a list.Andy Grove, High Output Management (Intel)Each profile carries ONE growth focus and a last-check-in date; the page flags anyone not spoken to in 30 days.
The caution: aggressive metrics without trust empties the building — a culture rebuilt from scratch after the 2017 review.Uber (2017 Holder report)Revenue here credits contribution, never commissions; measured numbers and management judgment are never blended.

Keeping people

Active team15on the Toast roster now
Median tenure6 mohalf the team longer, half shorter
Left in 90 days2people who actually worked here
Turnover pace~160%estimated yearly, from 180 days of departures — NYC hospitality runs 70–100%

Overtime by week: 12-01: 42h · 01-01: 73h · 04-01: 2h · 08-10: 11h · 08-17: 6h. Overtime creeping up while sales stay flat is the earliest sign a schedule no longer fits the business.

Carrying the current overtime: Jorge Genaro (15.8h), David DeBiasi (1.2h), Lidia Tian (0.3h) — last 28 days.

Tenure, person by person — hire dates are Toast's records
Angel Morel — 18 months (since 2025-02-28)
Lidia Tian — 16 months (since 2025-04-15)
Callie Spears — 14 months (since 2025-07-01)
Jennifer Huynh — 12 months (since 2025-08-21)
Juan Carlos Calel Sente — 7 months (since 2026-01-19)
Tomas Calel Sente — 7 months (since 2026-01-19)
David DeBiasi — 6 months (since 2026-02-16)
Gianna Cooper — 6 months (since 2026-02-23)
Jhony Andrade — 5 months (since 2026-03-23)
Jorge Genaro — 4 months (since 2026-04-12)
Eisa Bush — 3 months (since 2026-05-17)
Calum Powers — 3 months (since 2026-05-24)
Teresa Van Beek — 1 months (since 2026-07-30)
Madeline Marquis Samid — 1 months (since 2026-08-08)
Katherine Dyball — 0 months (since 2026-08-09)
So what A schedule built on this page puts people where they are already strong — that is what the research rewards. Strengths first, one growth focus per person, a real conversation inside every 30 days, and mistakes treated as information. The measured half updates itself; the judgment half compounds — one sentence per person per week makes this the most useful page in the building by winter.

9Voids, Comps & Giveaways

58 items last week

This section answers: “What did we lose, and what did we give away — and why?”

Voided today0items — ≈ $0.00 menu value, live
This week1items — ≈ $34.00 menu value, week of 08-24
This week: Comp1items — ≈ $34.00

Values are MENU prices of what was voided — approximate cost of the gesture, not product lost: Toast cannot tell whether a voided item was already made.

Nothing voided yet today.

This week, by reason

A Comp is hospitality spent on purpose — it should match a story someone can tell. An Error is training or process. 86'd is inventory failing the menu.

ReasonItems
Comp1
This week1
Last week, for scale58

What we gave away on purpose

The Thank-You buttons track hospitality spent by choice: Thank you ($0) is a free drink; Thank You Charge ($1) is the industry / friends-and-family check. Tracked so generosity stays a decision with a number on it.

Free drinks & $1 checks, this week00 today
The full void register — 59 lines, last two weeks, with who rang each
Attribution for a conversation, not for blame — the server on the check rang the item, and did not necessarily cause the void.
DateItemQtyReasonRung by
08-24Bheeyo Orange2CompManagement
08-23La Cabra Espresso1CompEisa Bush
08-23Pigs in a Blanket1CompEisa Bush
08-23Shrimp Tacos1CompEisa Bush
08-23Laelia1CompAngel Morel
08-23S O C K S4CompAngel Morel
08-23Paloma5CompAngel Morel
08-22Pornstar Martini1CompKatherine Dyball
08-22Purple Lychee1CompKatherine Dyball
08-22818 Reposado1ErrorCalum Powers
08-22Shots6ErrorCalum Powers
08-22Pornstar Martini1ErrorCalum Powers
08-22Purple Lychee1ErrorJennifer Huynh
08-22S O C K S1ErrorJennifer Huynh
08-22Cosmopolitan1Customer Changed MindTeresa Van Beek
08-21BTL Prosecco / Terre del Trebbia1CompManagement
08-21Pornstar Martini1CompGianna Cooper
08-21Mezcal Union1CompGianna Cooper
08-21ACGT Negroni1CompGianna Cooper
08-21ZbioticZ1CompJennifer Huynh
08-21ZbioticZ1CompGianna Cooper
08-21Hugo Spritz1CompCallie Spears
08-21Matcha - Tini2CompCallie Spears
08-21ZbioticZ4CompGianna Cooper
08-21818 Reposado4CompGianna Cooper
08-21Diet Coke1Customer Changed MindGianna Cooper
08-21Pilsner - POLISHED1Server ErrorJennifer Huynh
08-21Purple Lychee1CompSophie ABREU
08-21ACGT Negroni1CompSophie ABREU
08-21Pornstar Martini2CompGianna Cooper
08-21La Cabra Espresso1Server ErrorJennifer Huynh
08-21Matcha - Tini1Server ErrorJennifer Huynh
08-21Mezcal Union1CompCallie Spears
08-21Mezcal Union1CompCallie Spears
08-21ACGT Negroni1Server ErrorJennifer Huynh
08-21ZbioticZ3CompCallie Spears
08-21Bombay Sapphire1CompGianna Cooper
08-21ZbioticZ4CompJennifer Huynh
08-20Eastern Dip1CompTeresa Van Beek
08-20Lychee Martini1ErrorTeresa Van Beek
08-20Michter's Rye1CompManagement
08-20Honey Whipped Ricotta1CompManagement
08-20Burger1CompManagement
08-20Pigs in a Blanket1CompManagement
08-20Mezcal Union1ErrorManagement
08-20Michter's Rye1ErrorManagement
08-19Shots386edKatherine Dyball
08-19Sparkling Water1Server ErrorKatherine Dyball
08-19Sparkling Water1Server ErrorKatherine Dyball
08-19Shrimp Tacos1CompGianna Cooper
08-19Honey Whipped Ricotta1CompGianna Cooper
08-19Old Bay Fries1CompGianna Cooper
08-18Thank You Charge1ErrorCalum Powers
08-18Pornstar Martini2CompCallie Spears
08-18Side Chips1CompCallie Spears
08-18Aperol Spritz1Testing/TrainingCallie Spears
08-17Chateauneuf Du Pape2ErrorManagement
08-17Chateauneuf Du Pape2CompManagement
08-17Chateauneuf Du Pape1CompManagement

Toast cannot say whether a voided item was already made — a cocktail voided seconds after ringing probably never got poured. These are counts of items rung and unsold: the pattern, not a price tag.

So what Every comp should have a story; every error should have a fix. Today's list is the one that matters — the people are still on the floor and the why is still fresh. When today runs hot, tonight's line-up is where it gets fixed.

11Upcoming

next 14 days · 8 event(s) further out

This section answers: “What is coming that needs a decision now?”

Next date worth planning for: US Open, main draw — 6 days out (2026-08-31).

Rain risk, next 14 days2 days50%+ chance of rain in the forecast
Biggest rain effect on fileWed +34%rain $2,283.00 vs dry $1,703.00 (n=15/31)
Forecast reaches2026-09-09refreshed with every rebuild
Projected sales is the median for that weekday across recent complete weeks — the same method the week's own forecast uses. It is not adjusted for weather or a named event; those sit alongside it so any adjustment is a judgment call, not a hidden multiplier.
DateDayEventWeatherProjected salesSame date last year
2026-08-26WedUS Open — Fan Week (free, approx)overcast, 83/62°F, 1% rain$3,004.25$5,546.01
2026-08-27ThuUS Open — Fan Week (free, approx)thunderstorm, 81/73°F, 74% rain$3,990.00$1,249.00
2026-08-28FriUS Open — Fan Week (free, approx)drizzle, 87/73°F, 62% rain$9,420.50$2,061.00
2026-08-29SatUS Open — Fan Week (free, approx)overcast, 84/68°F, 10% rain$10,131.50$3,394.53
2026-08-30SunUS Open — Fan Week (free, approx)overcast, 83/71°F, 7% rain$1,436.00$3,538.01
2026-08-31MonUS Open, main drawdrizzle, 87/74°F, 15% rainno data
2026-09-01TueUS Open, main drawovercast, 84/71°F, 16% rain$1,877.00
2026-09-02WedUS Open, main drawovercast, 76/67°F, 21% rain$3,004.25$933.00
2026-09-03ThuUS Open, main drawpartly cloudy, 83/63°F, 20% rain$3,990.00$1,511.00
2026-09-04FriUS Open, main drawlight drizzle, 73/69°F, 15% rain$9,420.50$2,163.00
2026-09-05SatUS Open, main drawovercast, 77/68°F, 16% rain$10,131.50$3,972.16
2026-09-06SunUS Open, main drawovercast, 78/68°F, 13% rain$1,436.00$4,603.01
2026-09-07MonUS Open, main drawpartly cloudy, 76/68°F, 30% rainno data
2026-09-08TueUS Open, main drawovercast, 76/69°F, 30% rain$1,877.00

On the radar

Weekend-anchored holidays (Memorial Day, Labor Day) span Saturday through Monday — for a bar the weekend carries more of the money than the named day itself.
EventDays outDatesLast year
NY Fashion Week, Sept edition (approx — confirm)
MONETIZE: industry afterparties, out-of-town spend, late-night and cocktail-led. Customarily the week after Labor Day; the CFDA sets real dates each season — confirm before building on them. The February edition is the same play in a colder month.
16d2026-09-10 – 2026-09-16no clean comparison — closed, or not trading yet back then
Feast of San Gennaro (approx — confirm)
MONETIZE: ~11 nights anchored on the Sep 19 feast day, ten minutes' walk away — evening spillover, biggest at weekends.
17d2026-09-11 – 2026-09-21no clean comparison — closed, or not trading yet back then
Halloween67d2026-10-31$4,720.00 (-53% vs a typical week of those days)
Village Halloween Parade
MONETIZE: the biggest costume crowd of the year, downtown. Staff it like a holiday; plan theme and any cover early.
67d2026-10-31$4,720.00 (-53% vs a typical week of those days)
NYC Marathon
MONETIZE: marathon Sunday is a daytime drinking holiday — brunch-to-evening arc, finishers and spectators.
68d2026-11-01$5,636.01 (+292% vs a typical week of those days)
Thanksgiving / Black Friday92d2026-11-25 – 2026-11-27no clean comparison — closed, or not trading yet back then
Thanksgiving Eve
MONETIZE: the biggest bar night of the year in most of the US. Staff and order for a Saturday, not a Wednesday.
92d2026-11-25no clean comparison — closed, or not trading yet back then
SantaCon (customary date — confirm)
MONETIZE OR DEFEND: customarily the second Saturday of December. Huge volume, messy crowd — lean in, charge a cover, or close early, but decide on purpose.
109d2026-12-12no clean comparison — closed, or not trading yet back then
So what US Open, main draw is 6 days out — worth locking the schedule and any promo for it now rather than the week of. 2 of the next 14 days carry a real chance of rain (Thu 08-27, Fri 08-28). On the days with enough history to judge, rain has actually correlated with higher sales here — treat a rainy forecast as information, not a reason to cut the floor.
What this sector can't say yet
  1. Schedule is only loaded through 2026-08-30 — days after that have a sales projection but no staffing plan yet.
Supporting detail
Start here

How much of this week is proven

Every one of the 428 scheduled hours now has a pay rate behind it. 202 of them have a printed start and end time as well. The other 226 are priced correctly but end in a word — “CLOSE”, “1st Cut”, “2nd Cut”, “PREP” — so their length comes from policy rather than a clock.

202 h measured & priced226 h priced, shift end from policy

The labor number below is no longer a floor — it is the figure. What is left is precision, not coverage: if every one of the 25 policy-ended shifts actually runs 30 minutes longer or shorter than assumed, the week moves by $183.10 — a range of $10,818.68 to $11,184.88 fully loaded. Pin the cut times and even that closes.

The numbers

What this week costs, as far as we can prove it

Hourly wages$4,133.08paid by the hour · 428 of 428 hours priced
Salaried, on the schedule$3,275.00Brian Ramirez, Jhony Andrade, Lidia Tian — flat, hours do not change it
Salaried, not scheduled$2,307.69GM
1099 contractors$500.00Sara — vendors, no employer tax owed
Employer payroll tax$786.01$9,715.77 W-2 payroll × 8.09%
Fully loaded$11,001.78all four pay types + employer tax
Cost per scheduled hour$17.30$7,408.08 ÷ 428 h
Scheduled hours428202 printed · 226 policy
Overtime0.0 h$0.00 · above 40 h at 1.5×
Net sales (projected)$29,859.25median of recent complete weeks

Labor is 36.8% of projected sales this week. That is now a real figure, not a floor — every scheduled hour is priced. The band around it is 36.2%–37.5%, and it comes entirely from not knowing the exact cut times. It also rests on a sales projection; the ratio will move when August actuals land.

Every ratio, with its arithmetic.
MeasureValueHow it was calculated
Labor % — wages only34.2%$10,215.77 ÷ $29,859.25
Labor % — with employer tax36.8%$11,001.78 ÷ $29,859.25
Labor % — if cut times are ±30 min out36.2% – 37.5%25 policy-ended shifts × 30 min × each person's rate
Sales per labor hour$69.74$29,859.25 ÷ 428 h
Labor cost per sales dollar$0.342wages ÷ net sales
The week

Where the hours sit against the money

Mon24
22 h
4 on the floor
says closed
$0.00
Tue25
38 h
4 on the floor
$1,877.00 proj.
Wed26
47 h
5 on the floor
$3,004.25 proj.
Thu27
82 h
10 on the floor
$3,990.00 proj.
Fri28
94 h
10 on the floor
$9,420.50 proj.
Sat29
105 h
12 on the floor
$10,131.50 proj.
Sun30
39 h
4 on the floor
$1,436.00 proj.

Sales shown are projected — 1 day(s) already traded use the real Toast figure ($0 so far); the rest is the median net sales per weekday across the 8 most recent COMPLETE weeks in the database (2026-06-22 .. 2026-08-23). Bar height is hours; solid is a printed shift, hatched is a shift that ends in “CLOSE” or a cut.

By department

Where the hours go

Dish / Porter
$1,827.67 90.5 h · 3 people · avg $20.20/h on priced hours
Bartenders
$1,197.83 86.8 h · 4 people · avg $13.79/h on priced hours
Servers
$1,094.26 82.8 h · 4 people · avg $13.21/h on priced hours
Barbacks
$988.32 75.5 h · 2 people · avg $13.09/h on priced hours
Kitchen
$2,300.00 70.5 h · 2 people · avg $32.62/h on priced hours
HOST/FLOOR
$0.00 22.0 h · 1 people · avg $0.00/h on priced hours
By person

Every person, every hour

“Printed” means both ends of the shift are on the schedule. “Policy” means the end was resolved from a written rule.
PersonDepartmentRateDaysPrinted hPolicy hTotal hOTCost
Angel MorelBarbacks$15.00 blended30.036.036.0$540.00
David DeBiasiBarbacks$11.35 blended40.039.539.5$448.32
Calum PowersBartenders$12.00 blended30.026.526.5$318.00
Jennifer HuynhBartenders$17.00 blended40.031.231.2$529.83
Madeline Marquis SamidBartenders$12.00 blended10.09.79.7$116.00
Sophia AbreuBartenders$12.00 blended210.59.019.5$234.00
Jhony AndradeDish / Porterno rate547.50.047.5$975.00
Jorge GenaroDish / Porter$20.00 blended436.00.036.0$719.67
Tomas Calel SenteDish / Porter$19.00 blended17.00.07.0$133.00
SaraHOST/FLOORno rate322.00.022.0$0.00
Brian RamirezKitchenno rate427.00.027.0$1,200.00
Lidia TianKitchenno rate543.50.043.5$1,100.00
Callie SpearsServers$17.00 blended30.025.225.2$427.83
Eisa BushServers$11.35 blended38.515.524.0$272.40
Gianna CooperServers$12.00 blended20.018.318.3$220.00
Teresa Van BeekServers$11.35 blended20.015.315.3$174.03
Total202.0226.2428.10.0$4,133.08

Angel Morel — Rate read from the pay column of the weekly schedule — the most current source available. Unit was inferred from the size of the figure; write 'per hour' or 'weekly' in the sheet to be explicit.

Callie Spears — Rate read from the pay column of the weekly schedule — the most current source available. Unit was inferred from the size of the figure; write 'per hour' or 'weekly' in the sheet to be explicit.

Calum Powers — Rate read from the pay column of the weekly schedule — the most current source available. Unit was inferred from the size of the figure; write 'per hour' or 'weekly' in the sheet to be explicit.

David DeBiasi — Toast pays $11.35 as Barback (his main job); sheet said $12.00. Toast wins per management decision, 2026-08-20. His occasional Bar Prep/Trail punches at $17.00 are job rates Toast prices per punch.

Eisa Bush — Toast pays $11.35 on every Server punch; sheet said $12.00. Toast wins per management decision, 2026-08-20.

Gianna Cooper — Rate read from the pay column of the weekly schedule — the most current source available. Unit was inferred from the size of the figure; write 'per hour' or 'weekly' in the sheet to be explicit.

Jennifer Huynh — Rate read from the pay column of the weekly schedule — the most current source available. Unit was inferred from the size of the figure; write 'per hour' or 'weekly' in the sheet to be explicit.

Jorge Genaro — Two rates: $20.00 as porter, $11.35 as barback. This is why Toast's implied rate read $16.89 — it averaged both jobs together. Rates on file: $20.00 as Dish / Porter, $11.35 as Barbacks.

Madeline Marquis Samid — Toast punches confirm $12.00 — sheet and punches agree.

Sophia Abreu — Toast punches confirm $12.00.

Teresa Van Beek — Toast pays $11.35 on every Server punch; sheet said $12.00. Toast wins per management decision, 2026-08-20.

Tomas Calel Sente — Rate read from the pay column of the weekly schedule — the most current source available.

14Guests

August 2026, first 17 service days

This section answers: “Who fills the room — bookings or walk-ins — and what do no-shows cost?”

Covers1,790August 2026, first 17 service days
Booked54%958 covers via reservation
Walk-in46%832 covers off the street
No-shows76covers across 26 parties — 7% of reservations

No-shows cost roughly $2,964.00 this month — 76 booked covers that never sat, at the $39-a-head booked guests average at the register. At 7% of reservations, a confirmation text the afternoon of, and releasing tables after 15 minutes, are worth real money.

A typical dinner service seats 111 covers — 59 booked, 52 walk-in. Nearly half the room walks in off the street: strong for a bar, and it means the street presence (the front, the window, the door) earns as much as the booking links do.

So whatHalf the room is booked, half walks in, and both halves are measurable now. Cut no-shows and shift walk-ins toward bookings — booked guests spend about a third more.

15Online

last checked 2026-08-24

This section answers: “What does the internet tell a stranger about us — and what is each booking channel worth?”

Read from the live pages on the date shown — never typed from memory. The trend column starts moving once a platform has two readings.
PlatformRatingReviewsChangeChecked
Yelp4.445— first reading08-23
Tripadvisor9— first reading08-23
OpenTable4.9None— first reading08-24
Resy4.6422— first reading08-24

Tripadvisor: #274 of 444 NYC Food & Drink; no public star average shown.

What a booking is worth, by how it arrives

Walk-in$29per person at dinner
Online reservation$39per person at dinner
In-house reservation$32per person at dinner

A guest who books online spends 34% more than a walk-in ($39 vs $29 per person at dinner — Resy's register data, last 30 days). Every seat moved from walk-in to booked is worth about $10 a head — which is what the reservation links on Instagram and Google are for.

OpenTable, previous 365 days, read from GuestCenter 2026-08-24. Benchmark: the 73 East Village restaurants on OpenTable.
MeasureSweet LindaEast Village average
Rating4.9 ★4.6 ★
Spend per cover$42.90$58.50
Covers via OpenTable, 365 days237

The read: 4.9 stars beats the neighborhood's 4.6 — the best marketing asset on this page. OpenTable sends few covers (237 in a year, under one a day), so the channel is a shop window more than a pipeline; the rating is what matters, and it costs nothing to keep.

So whatBooked guests spend more and the ratings are the free sales force. Push booking links everywhere a stranger finds the bar; a 0.3-star slide would cost covers months before it shows in sales, so the platforms get read every week.
Weekly brief — built to be lifted into a deck

Five slides, in the order they should be told

1. The headlineLabor for the week of 2026-08-24 stands at 36% of projected revenue against our 26% target — $10,760.42 fully loaded on $29,859.25, $2,997.02 above plan. State the gap in dollars, not points — a room hears $2,997 louder than 10 points.
2. What actually movedRevenue was $29,265.00, up $2,886.00 week-over-week — within normal variation against this business's typical weekly swing of $4,450.50. No event revenue in the week; this is all repeatable trading. Name the noise band before someone reads weather as trend — or trend as weather.
3. Why the quiet nights cost money$6,082.69 a week of salary and contractors is committed regardless of the schedule — 55% of labor. It lands on every open day equally, so a $1,877.00 Tuesday carries the same fixed load as a $10,131.50 Friday. Cutting hours does not fix this; volume or fewer open days does.
4. What we still cannot answerNot profitability — that is now measured: break-even is $4,762.28 an open day and the last full months cleared it by $2,117.51, 1.7% of sales. What remains is thinner: $14,217.19 of vendor spend sits in provisional categories; no day has a written note, so soft weeks get explained from memory. Say the margin out loud — 1.7% is a real answer and a fragile one, and a room that hears "we are profitable" without the number will plan as if it were 10%.
5. The askAgree whether the 26% target is met by $41,386.23 of sales or by changing the fixed base; confirm what the provisional vendors actually are (Frank W. Palillo, Shelter Point, Erica Levy); settle whether Mon is open — the schedule staffs it but marks it closed. End on the decision, not the data — a deck that ends on a chart gets a nod; one that ends on a question gets an answer.

Every figure above is generated, not typed. Rebuild before the meeting and the brief updates with it.

Terms used on this page — plain-English definitions
Fully loaded — wages plus everything the business pays on top of them — employer payroll tax, and nothing else hidden. The only fair way to compare labor with revenue.
Employer tax (burden) — what Sweet Linda owes the government on every W-2 dollar — Social Security, Medicare, unemployment. About 8 cents per wage dollar. The employee never sees it; we still pay it.
1099 / contractor — someone paid as a vendor, not an employee. Real cost, counted in labor, but no employer tax is owed and they never appear in Toast.
Break-even — the sales at which the business neither makes nor loses money once every cost is counted. Below it a day costs us money; above it we keep about 49 cents of each extra dollar.
Contribution margin — what is left from a dollar of sales after the costs that arrive with the sale (drink, food, hourly labor). It is what pays the rent.
Measured vs estimated — measured means Toast recorded it; estimated means the schedule implied it. The page never mixes the two in one number, and marks which is which.