Sweet Linda

LABOR & SALES · WEEK OF 2026-09-07 → 2026-09-13
rebuilt 2026-09-13 14:38
traced to source · verified twice before publish
17 people · 416 scheduled hours
every figure traced to a source file
Sales data current to 2026-09-12 — pulled 13 minutes ago. page rebuilt just now
How this page works — a note for Drew and Max

I put an API on Toast, so this page updates itself every 15 minutes — and I feed it the numbers Paperchase sends us weekly and monthly so everything relates in one place. Drew, Max — anything missing or worth adding, just tell me.

Suggestions & observations

Anything goes here — the business, the numbers, an idea, a question, something this page should show. It goes straight to the back end and gets acted on. An amber dot means open; green means done.

Where the business stands

Sun needs $5,104.04. The week is $12,053.80 ahead of pace.

The biggest lever: labor lands at $10,549.89 in wages — 26% of projected sales against the $10,100.00 weekly ceiling, $449.89 over. Measured from Toast's clock-ins plus the schedule for what is still ahead.

Today, live — Sun$0.00of the $5,104.04 an open day needs · a typical Sun finishes at $2,872.00counts in totals once the day closes
Yesterday — Sat$12,152.00+30% vs a typical Sat · $7,047.96 above the daily bar · covered its $1,446.50 of hourly wages
This week vs the need$37,574.00of the $30,624.26 the week needs · 5 finished days needed $25,520.20, ahead by $12,053.80solid = finished days · hatched = today, still live
Costs us per calendar day$4,362.91all 7 days — not a target, nothing can be earned on a dark day
Last complete week$31,102.00week of 08-31 · $477.74 above break-even
What’s coming — and what we’re buildingevents worth money · the house’s own next moves NY Fashion Week, Sept edition (dates approx.) · tomorrow Feast of San Gennaro (dates approx.) · 4d Halloween · 48d Village Halloween Parade · 48d cocktailPIZZA · testing now Rum guava cocktail · ready to launch
Needs attention — 2 urgent
highTue does not cover its own labor$1,391.28 of loaded labor against $1,141.00 of sales.
high1 person is on pace to cross 40 hours$14.49 of overtime premium at stake. Worst: Lidia Tian — 30.8h worked + 10.5h still scheduled = 41.3h. Swapping those shifts to someone under 40 costs nothing.
watchLabor is 4% over the $10,100.00 weekly ceiling$449.89 more than the $10,100.00 the target allows.
watch4.0 hours of overtime scheduled$138.00 at 1.5x. Overtime bought by the schedule rather than by a call-out is usually avoidable.
watch1 shift were auto-clocked-out by ToastLongest: Jorge Genaro on 2026-09-12, 11.1 hours. Toast closes a forgotten punch at a fixed time, not the time the person left, so these hours are invented and $221.40 of them is paid wages. Correct them in Toast and re-pull before this week is used for payroll.
watchVoids ran 9/214 orders on 2026-09-10Above 3% of orders. Worth asking who voided what before it becomes a pattern.
watch2 schedule cells could not be readThose hours are in no total.
watchNY Fashion Week, Sept edition (dates approx.) is 1 day out2026-09-14 — worth locking the schedule and any promo now. See Upcoming below.
infoMon is inventory day12.0 hours clocked, $133.00 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?$5,104.04 on every open day — $30,624.26 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 $137,060.23 a month and everything the business spends came to $102,910.59 — leaving $34,149.64, 24.9% of sales. A real margin and a thin one: a bad fortnight erases it. On Paperchase's fuller books (marketing, financing, taxes as paid) the same months land near break-even — both are true; they count different costs.
Is this a slow month, or are we slow?September runs at 112% of an average month here — measured from our own 2025 sales. Next two months: 130% and 105% (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?26.1% of projected sales, wages. But $4,982.69 of it — 47% — is fixed salary and contractors that no schedule changes. Only $5,567.20 of hourly wages and the tax on them responds to how the week is built.
Is the business growing?Last complete week did $31,102.00. Walk-in trading was $31,102.00, down $5,416.00 on the week — inside normal variation, against a typical weekly swing of $4,450.50. Four-week trend is -7%.
What's coming up that needs a decision now?NY Fashion Week, Sept edition (dates approx.) is 1 day out (2026-09-14).

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
Sales, week to date$37,574.00pace: $25,520.20on trackToast, finished days only
Break-even, per open day$5,104.04the bar every open daywatchledger + payroll, Jun–Jul base
Labor, % of sales (wages)26.1%watchpunches + roster + employer tax
Prime cost (product + labor)49.2%rule of thumb ≤60%on trackledger, Jun–Jul
Cost of goods, % of sales25.3%liquor-led bars run ~24–30%on trackledger, Jun–Jul
Net margin (EBITDA)24.9%healthy bars run 10–15%on trackfull P&L, Jun–Jul
Schedule accuracy, hours89%100% = worked as plannedwatchpunches vs schedule, this week
Overtime scheduled this week4.0 h0 by design — OT should be bought by a call-outwatchthe schedule as written
Spend per guest (2026-08)$41.33prior month $68.17watchToast orders & guests
Decisions on the table
  1. Trim Tuesday dish/porter cover to Friday's level — Tuesdays run 45% labor on $2,000 nights, and dish is the biggest line — ≈ $9,000/yr
  2. Sell Tuesday–Wednesday to private events; the one Wednesday with an event was the most profitable Wednesday of the summer — $3,000–$18,675 per event, measured
  3. Turn on Resy card-holds for Friday/Saturday prime slots — 7% of booked parties currently no-show — ≈ $700–$1,500/mo
  4. Ask happy tables for reviews — Yelp slipped back to 4.4 when its filter removed three; five five-stars rebuilds the 4.5 strangers see — the cheapest marketing on the page

3Guests

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.

4Online

last checked 2026-09-10

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 last column is the climb: how many straight five-star reviews would lift the displayed average to its next number, assuming the shown average is exact.
PlatformRatingReviewsChangeTo the next 0.1★Checked
Yelp4.445-0.1 stars, -3 reviews+5 five-star → 4.509-10
Tripadvisor4.590.0 stars, +0 reviews+1 five-star → 4.609-10
OpenTable4.8-0.1 stars09-01
Resy4.64440.0 stars, +12 reviews+64 five-star → 4.709-10
Google4.83770.0 stars, +6 reviews+126 five-star → 4.909-10

Tripadvisor: #276 of 446 NYC Food & Drink.

What a booking is worth, by how it arrives

Walk-in$30per person at dinner
Online reservation$39per person at dinner
In-house reservation$31per person at dinner

A guest who books online spends 30% more than a walk-in ($39 vs $30 per person at dinner — Resy's register data, last 30 days). Every seat moved from walk-in to booked is worth about $9 a head — which is what the reservation links on Instagram and Google are for.

What each table size is worth

Resy’s register data: spend per head, how long the table sits, and what the table earns per minute it is occupied.
Party sizeSpend per headTable time$ per table-minute
2$38117 min$0.32
3$44109 min$0.40
4$35110 min$0.31
5$42137 min$0.30
6$33104 min$0.32
7$35175 min$0.20
8$55155 min$0.35

Threes are the best table in the house ($0.40 a minute) and sevens are the worst ($0.20) — a seven-top sits for nearly three hours and spends like a four. When the book is tight, steer sevens to eight (adds a spender and $20 a head) or split them; and threes and eights deserve the prime slots.

OpenTable GuestCenter, last month vs East Village, read 2026-09-01. Benchmark: the 72 East Village restaurants on OpenTable.
MeasureSweet LindaEast Village average
Rating4.8 ★4.6 ★
Spend per cover$41.50$55.87
Covers, last month2891803

The read: 4.8 stars beats the neighborhood's 4.6 — the best marketing asset on this page. And the channel woke up: 289 covers last month, more than the whole prior year's 237 — worth feeding now, not just keeping polished. Spend per cover runs $14.37 under the neighborhood average — a cocktail bar next to dinner houses, as expected.

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.

5ZBiotics

105 units since launch · 21 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 bar14 bought · 1 comped · 875 without
$44.50
$22.50
$26.00
+$18per table
2-person table29 bought · 2 comped · 883 without
$85.00
$30.50
$58.00
+$27per table
3-person table5 bought · 195 without
$101.00
$77.00
+$24per table
4-person table8 bought · 1 comped · 124 without
$183.00
$38.00
$90.00
+$93per table
Big table (5+)4 bought · 100 without
$346.50
$129.00
+$218small sample

The clearest proof is the 2-person table — our most common table, with the most evidence: 29 of them ordered ZBiotics and typically spent $85.00; the 883 that didn't spent $58.00. Same nights, same size, $27.00 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. The last two grey bars run high because Toast began counting heads on quick bar tabs in early September — more counted heads, not more traffic.

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
17
16
884
08-24
8
8
1699
08-31
19
4
1439
09-07

Where the stock went: 105 sold, 42 comped, 8 at private events — 155 units out the door, about one comp per 2 sold.

The target: 300 units a month (69/week) — 2.8× the best week yet. At 2 units a table that is ~35 tables a week saying yes: it takes the offer at every table, every night.

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
405OUTDOOR4143.5$860.00
102Room 1591.8$925.00
Nook2Disco Room471.8$487.00
B7Disco Room372.3$704.00
B5Disco Room561.2$234.00
Nook1Disco Room451.2$401.00
101Room 1351.7$412.00
H1Room 2351.7$248.00
205Room 2252.5$439.00
302Disco Room252.5$668.00
202Room 2242.0$327.00
301Disco Room242.0$490.00
H2Room 2242.0$199.00
H3Room 2331.0$296.00
B1Disco Room231.5$158.00
103Room 1231.5$222.00
B8Disco Room221.0$90.00
B2Disco Room221.0$124.00
B9Disco Room122.0$66.00
D7Disco Room122.0$64.00
104Room 1122.0$95.00
201Room 2111.0$45.00
503OUTDOOR111.0$139.00
200Room 2111.0$83.00
204Room 2111.0$151.00
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 30 (49%) · Room 2 15 (25%) · Room 1 11 (18%) · OUTDOOR 5 (8%).

DateTableRoomGuestsUnitsCheck
09-12B5Disco Room11$38.00
09-12Nook2Disco Room22$66.00
09-12201Room 221$45.00
09-12102Room 121$98.00
09-12Nook1Disco Room12$125.00
09-12405OUTDOOR44$193.00
09-12H3Room 221$134.00
09-12B5Disco Room11$33.00
09-12102Room 121$140.00
09-12205Room 221$154.00
09-12102Room 161$215.00
09-11503OUTDOOR21$139.00
09-11B7Disco Room11$25.00
09-10B8Disco Room11$34.00
09-06101Room 142$166.00
09-06Nook2Disco Room11$74.00
09-03H3Room 221$150.00
09-03B1Disco Room11$80.00
09-03B5Disco Room12$41.00
09-02Nook1Disco Room31$101.00
08-30H3Room 201$12.00
08-29B2Disco Room21$76.00
08-29202Room 222$221.00
08-29405OUTDOOR21$25.00
08-29301Disco Room31$74.00
08-28H2Room 222$114.00
08-28405OUTDOOR47$365.00
08-25101Room 122$73.00
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
1141.4
2291.4
352.0
483.1
5+41.8

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: Eisa Bush (27), Gianna Cooper (21), Jennifer Huynh (17), Callie Spears (15), Teresa Van Beek (12). Party sizes and tables are Toast's own records. Study refreshed 2026-09-13.

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.

6Schedule & Labor

2026-09-07 → 2026-09-13 · 17 people rostered

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

This week's schedule — tap to open and edit any cell; saves enter the numbers at the next refresh
WhoMonTueWedThuFriSatSun
Barbacks
Angel INVENTORY/PREP 1:00 PM 3:00 PM - CLOSE 12:00 PM - CLOSE 1:00 PM
David 3:00 PM - CLOSE 3:00 PM - CLOSE 3:00 PM - 1st Cut
Jose 8:00 PM - CLOSE
Bartenders
Calum 4:00 PM - CLOSE 6:00 PM - CLOSE 3:00 PM - 1st Cut
Jenn (LEAD BAR) INVENTORY 1:00 PM 3:00 PM - 1st cut 3:00 PM - 1st Cut 7:00 PM - CLOSE
Maddy 3:30 PM - CLOSE
Sophie 6:00 PM - CLOSE R/O R/O
Dish / Porter
Jhony 8:00 AM - 3:00 PM 7:00 AM - 3:30 PM 7:00 AM - 4:00 PM 7:00 AM - 4:00 PM 10:00am to 7:00PM
Jorge 6:00 PM - 12:30 AM 5:30 PM - 1:30 AM 5:30 PM - 3:00 AM
Tomas 6:00 AM - 12:00 PM
HOST/FLOOR
Sara 5:00 PM - 10:30PM 5:00pm - 12:00AM 5:00 pm - 12:00 AM
Kitchen
Bryan 4:00 PM - 8:00 PM 4:00 PM 4:00 PM - 9:00 PM 4:00 PM - 11:00 PM 4:00 PM - 11:00 PM
Lidia 3:00 PM - 11:00 PM 5:00 PM - 11:30 PM 4:30 PM - 12:00AM 4:30 PM - 12:00AM 12:00 PM - 9:30 PM
Servers
Callie (LEAD SERVER) 4:00 PM - CLOSE 3:30 PM - 1st Cut 7:00 PM - CLOSE
Eissa 4:00 PM - 1st Cut 6:00 PM - 2nd Cut 1:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Gianna 4:00 PM - CLOSE 8:00 PM - CLOSE
Katherine "Kiki" R/O R/O R/O R/O R/O R/O
Teresa 6:00 PM - CLOSE 6:00 PM - 2nd Cut 1:30 PM - 1st Cut

Edits save for everyone and are applied to the schedule of record — hours, cost and overtime recalculate on the next refresh, within 15 minutes. Clearing a cell removes the shift. Cells use the sheet's own language: “4:00 PM - CLOSE”, “3:30 PM - 1st Cut”, “R/O”, “ON CALL”.

Today so far · Sun 13$0.000 orders · 0 guests — 100% behind a typical Sun ($2,872.00)
On the floor today29.5 h3 people rostered · $343.65 in hourly pay

Live from the Toast Orders API, pulled 18:25 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$9,920.45W-2 payroll $9,420.45 + employer tax $0.00 + 1099 $500.00
Labor target this week$10,100.00hard ceiling of $10,100 a week, whatever sales do — the binding one. The other (29% of projected net sales of $40,446) allows $11,729.34.
Over target+$449.89+4.5% against the target
actual $10,549.89target marker $10,100.00

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 712.02$133.00
Tue 845.35$560.83$830.45$1,141.00 actual-47% vs $2,167.50122%134%
Wed 947.35$719.20$830.45$3,119.00 actual+4% vs $3,010.2550%72%
Thu 1082.810$906.19$830.45$10,414.00 actual+145% vs $4,256.0017%33%
Fri 1193.811$978.42$830.45$10,748.00 actual+11% vs $9,641.2517%26%
Sat 12105.311$1,250.45$830.45$12,152.00 actual+30% vs $9,342.5017%23%
Sun 1329.53$343.65$830.45$2,872.00 proj41%24%
Week416.2$4,891.74$4,982.69$40,446.0025%

Plus $46.02 of weekly overtime premium, charged at the week level because overtime is a property of a person's whole week, not of one day — bringing hourly labor to $4,937.76.

Fixed pay is $4,982.69 a week whatever the schedule does — 50% of total labor. Only the $4,937.76 of hourly wages responds to how the week is built.

The schedule, costed shift by shift — every cell, every rate, every assumption
Who Mon 7
closed
Tue 8
00:00
Wed 9
00:00
Thu 10
01:00
Fri 11
02:00
Sat 12
02:00
Sun 13
21:30
HoursCost
Servers
Callie Spears$17.00/h
4:00 PM - CLOSE9.2 h · $155.83
3:30 PM - 1st Cut8.5 h · $144.50
7:00 PM - CLOSE8.2 h · $138.83
25.8$439.16
Eisa Bush$11.35/h
4:00 PM - 1st Cut7.0 h · $79.45
6:00 PM - 2nd Cut7.5 h · $85.12
1:30 PM - 9:30 PM9.0 h · $102.15
23.5$266.72
Gianna Cooper$12.00/h
4:00 PM - CLOSE9.2 h · $110.00
8:00 PM - CLOSE7.2 h · $86.00
16.3$196.00
Katherine Dyball$11.35/h OFF OFF OFF OFF OFF OFF 0.0$0.00
Teresa Van Beek$11.35/h
6:00 PM - CLOSE8.2 h · $92.69
6:00 PM - 2nd Cut7.5 h · $85.12
1:30 PM - 1st Cut10.5 h · $119.17
26.2$296.98
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 - 12:30 AM7.5 h · $150.00
5:30 PM - 1:30 AM9.0 h · $180.00
5:30 PM - 3:00 AM10.5 h · $210.00
27.0$540.00
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
3:00 PM - 1st Cut9.0 h · $108.00
26.3$316.00
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
7:00 PM - CLOSE8.2 h · $138.83
30.2$512.83
Madeline Marquis Samid$12.00/h
3:30 PM - CLOSE9.7 h · $116.00
9.7$116.00
Sophia Abreu$12.00/h
6:00 PM - CLOSE9.2 h · $110.00
OFF OFF 9.2$110.00
Barbacks
Angel Morel$15.00/h
INVENTORY/PREP 1:00 PM 3:00 PM - CLOSE14.0 h · $210.00
12:00 PM - CLOSE17.0 h · $255.00
1:00 PMnot costed
31.0$465.00
David DeBiasi$11.35/h
3:00 PM - CLOSE12.0 h · $136.20
3:00 PM - CLOSE13.0 h · $147.55
3:00 PM - 1st Cut9.0 h · $102.15
34.0$385.90
Jose Cruz$11.35/h
8:00 PM - CLOSE9.0 h · $102.15
9.0$102.15
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$23.00/h
3:00 PM - 11:00 PM9.0 h · $207.00
5:00 PM - 11:30 PM7.5 h · $172.50
4:30 PM - 12:00AM8.5 h · $195.50
4:30 PM - 12:00AM8.5 h · $195.50
12:00 PM - 9:30 PM10.5 h · $241.50
44.0$1,012.00
HOST/FLOOR
Sarano rate
5:00 PM - 10:30PM6.5 h · —
5:00pm - 12:00AM8.0 h · —
5:00 pm - 12:00 AM8.0 h · —
22.5$0.00
Day total 12.0 h
$133.00
45.3 h
$560.83
47.3 h
$719.20
82.8 h
$906.19
93.8 h
$978.42
105.3 h
$1,250.45
29.5 h
$343.65
416.2$7,112.76
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 4.0 overtime hours this week are added at the week level ($138.00) 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 5 finished days; 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$9,920.45the plan, all seven days · 24.5% of sales
Actual so far + rest of schedule$10,549.89$5,090.55 recorded by Toast + $476.65 still to come · 26.1% of sales
Calibrated to schedule accuracy$10,622.82remaining days scaled by 115%, the rate the schedule has actually predicted cost this week · 26.3% of sales
How accurate the schedule isAcross 5 finished days the schedule called 374.7 hours and Toast recorded 334.289% of plan. On cost it was closer: $4,415.11 planned against $5,090.55 recorded, 115%. Cost tracks better than hours because the misses are concentrated in cheaper roles and in people working different jobs than rostered.

The schedule against what actually happened

Across the 5 days that have finished (2026-09-08 → 2026-09-12), the floor ran 40.5 hours under the schedule and cost $675.44 more. Fewer hours and more money is not a contradiction — it means people worked different jobs than the schedule assumed, at different wages.

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
Isabella Jacobson not rostered0.024.5+24.5$0.00$612.75+613Host 24.5h
Juan not rostered0.07.2+7.2$0.00$136.04+136DISH/PORTER 7.2h
Angel31.023.8-7.2$465.00$357.60-107Barback 23.8h
Calum26.334.4+8.1$316.00$413.28+97Bartender 34.4h
Jose9.016.8+7.8$102.15$190.91+89Barback 16.8h
Callie (LEAD SERVER)25.830.7+4.9$439.17$368.40-71Server 30.7h
Lidia33.530.8-2.7$770.50$707.48-63Line Cook 30.8h
Eissa14.518.7+4.2$164.57$211.79+47Server 18.7h
David34.032.1-1.9$385.90$364.10-22Barback 32.1h
Maddy9.78.0-1.7$116.00$95.52-20Bartender 8.0h
Gianna16.314.6-1.7$196.00$175.56-20Server 14.6h
Jenn (LEAD BAR)30.231.4+1.3$512.83$527.52+15Bar Lead 29.7h, Bar Prep 1.7h
Jorge27.026.5-0.5$540.00$530.60-9DISH/PORTER 26.5h
Sophie9.28.8-0.4$110.00$105.60-4Bartender 8.8h
Teresa26.225.9-0.3$296.99$293.40-4Server 25.9h
Bryan never clocked in22.00.0-22.0$0.00$0.00+0
Jhony never clocked in37.50.0-37.5$0.00$0.00+0
Sara never clocked in22.50.0-22.5$0.00$0.00+0
Total374.7334.2-40.5$4,415.11$5,090.55+675

Where the money moved, and why: Angel $107.40 under — worked Barback. Callie (LEAD SERVER) $70.77 under — worked Server. Calum $97.28 over — worked Bartender. Eissa $47.22 over — worked Server. 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
1.8%17.5%$855.40102+16 pts more labor than revenue
5–7pm build
doors open, room fills
18.8%16.6%$813.2568in proportion
7–10pm peak
the money
55.5%30.5%$1,490.15118carries the week on 30% of labor
10pm–midnight
late service
21.0%19.0%$929.1270in proportion
After midnight
last call and breakdown
3.0%16.4%$803.8457+14 pts more labor than revenue

34% of hourly wages sits in the two blocks that produce 4.8% of revenue — $1,659.24 across 160 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 (122%) do not cover their own loaded labor — $250.28 short before rent or drink cost. Hourly pay on those days is only $560.83 — this is fixed cost landing on quiet days, so the lever is revenue or open days, not hours. The week is $449.89 over the $10,100.00 weekly ceiling, which holds at that figure whatever sales do.

17Time Off

3 requests on record

This section answers: “Who is off, and how far ahead did they ask?”

Logged the day a request lands. R/O marks on the schedule sheet get logged here too.
PersonDays offAsked onLead timeStatus
Sophie
R/O on the schedule sheet — ask date not recorded
2026-09-12 – 2026-09-13not recordedapproved
Katherine "Kiki"
R/O across the full week on the schedule sheet — ask date not recorded
2026-09-08 – 2026-09-13not recordedapproved
Katherine "Kiki"
R/O on this week's schedule sheet — ask date not recorded
2026-09-05 – 2026-09-06not recordedapproved
So whatThe record protects everyone. A request logged the day it lands settles who asked first, and the lead-time column shows who gives the schedule room to plan.

7Hourly vs Salary

53% of labor moves with the schedule

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

Of $10,549.89 in labor (wages) this week, $5,567.20 is bought by the hour and $4,982.69 is owed whatever the schedule says. Only the first responds to sending someone home early.

Hourly$5,567.2014 people · 53% of labor · 13.8% of sales
Salary$4,482.693 people · 42% of labor · 11.1% of sales
1099 / contractor$500.001 person (the host) · 5% of labor · 1.2% 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$5,567.20$0.00$5,567.2053%
Salaryflat weekly amounts, whatever the hours$4,482.69$0.00$4,482.6942%
1099 / contractorflat weekly vendor cost — no employer payroll tax$500.00none owed$500.005%
Totalat 0.0% employer burden on W-2 wages$10,549.89$0.00$10,549.89100%
Person by person — salary, hourly and 1099, every rate and every hour

Salary — flat every week, no overtime

$4,482.69 in salaries, of which $2,175.00 buys 74.5 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
Jhony AndradeDish / Porter$975.0047.5 scheduled hours$20.537.5 h · $76.99 of overtime not owedyes — scheduled shifts, flat cost
Total$4,482.6974.5$76.99

Hourly — priced by the punch clock

$5,567.20 in wages, from punched so far + scheduled for the rest of the week — 5 finished days of punches. The schedule as written called $4,937.76.

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
Lidia TianKitchen$23.0044.030.8$1,058.00$707.48
Jorge GenaroDish / Porter$20.0027.026.5$540.00$530.60
Jennifer HuynhBartenders$17.00 clocks $13.00, $17.0030.231.4$512.83$527.52
Angel Morel on the floor nowBarbacks$15.0031.023.8$465.00$357.60
Callie SpearsServers$17.00 clocks $12.0025.830.7$439.17$368.40
David DeBiasiBarbacks$11.3534.032.1$385.90$364.10
Calum PowersBartenders$12.0026.334.4$316.00$413.28
Teresa Van BeekServers$11.3526.225.9$296.99$293.40
Eisa BushServers$11.3523.518.7$266.72$211.79
Gianna CooperServers$12.0016.314.6$196.00$175.56
Tomas Calel SenteDish / Porter$19.007.00.0$133.00$0.00
Madeline Marquis SamidBartenders$12.009.78.0$116.00$95.52
Sophia AbreuBartenders$12.009.28.8$110.00$105.60
Jose CruzBarbacks$11.359.016.8$102.15$190.91
Total319.2334.2$4,937.76$4,341.76

Clocked in without being on this week's schedule

$748.79 across 2 people and 31.7 hours. This money is already inside the totals above — it has to be, Toast recorded it — but no shift on the schedule you shared accounts for it. Either the schedule is missing them, or Toast is spelling someone's name a second way.

Toast nameDepartmentClocked hClocked costPaid atOn the roster
Isabella Jacobson24.5$612.75$25.00no record
Juan Carlos Calel SenteDish / Porter7.2$136.04$19.00yes

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

On pace to cross 40 — still avoidable

Hours already worked plus what the schedule still holds. Every name here is a decision that can still be made: move the remaining shift to someone under 40 and the premium is never owed.

WhoWorkedStill scheduledProjected weekPremium at stake
Lidia Tian30.810.541.3$14.49
Why Toast's labor % and this page's differ — reconciled to the cent

Why Toast says 12.0% and this page says 26.1%

Both are right. Toast prices the punch clock; it cannot see a salary nobody clocks, a 1099 vendor, or employer tax. Every step between the two figures is below.

StepWhy it is thereAmount% of sales
What Toast's Labor cost screen showshourly wages on approved punches — Toast's own figure$4,869.1512.0%
+ Shifts Toast auto-closed and is not costinghours it invented at a fixed clock-out time, still worked against real wages$221.4012.6%
+ Rest of the week, still scheduleddays that have not been worked yet, priced from the schedule$476.6513.8%
+ Salaries — nobody clocks a salaryflat weekly pay Toast's labor screen cannot see$4,482.6924.8%
+ 1099 contractora real weekly labor bill, outside payroll entirely$500.0026.1%
What labor actually costevery dollar the business paid for people this week$10,549.8926.1%

Use Toast's number to judge a shift; use this one to judge the business.

So what $4,982.69 of this week's labor is fixed before the schedule is written. Cuts only reach the $5,567.20 hourly side — a 10% trim there saves $556.72, not $1,054.99. The fixed side's lever is placement: 74 salaried hours are already paid for — put them on the busiest shifts.

8Monthly Expenses

85 vendors · 8 complete months

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

In a typical month $137,060.23 comes in, $102,910.59 goes out, and $34,149.64 stays.

Measured over 2026-01, 2026-02, 2026-03, 2026-04, 2026-05, 2026-06, 2026-07, 2026-08 — the months where the ledger and the sales history fully overlap. Of every $100 of sales: $25 buys product, $24 pays people, $26 runs the room — rent, utilities, everything else — and $24.90 is what the business keeps on this ledger view; Paperchase’s fuller books (marketing, financing, taxes as paid) bring it near break-even — the Economics sector holds both.

Money in$137,060.23net sales, monthly average
Money out$102,910.59product + people + running the room
What stays$34,149.6424.9% of sales — the margin every decision on this page is trying to widen

The P&L, monthly average

Every line measured over 2026-01, 2026-02, 2026-03, 2026-04, 2026-05, 2026-06, 2026-07, 2026-08 — 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$137,060.23100.0%what the room took, after discounts and voids
Cost of goods-$34,649.17-25.3%liquor, wine, beer, food — moves with every dollar sold
Gross profit$102,411.0674.7%what is left to pay for everything else
Labor (wages)-$32,837.06-24.0%wages, payroll tax and workers' comp
Operating expenses-$35,424.36-25.8%rent, utilities, supplies, marketing, insurance, professional fees
Profit before tax$34,149.6424.9%what the business actually kept
How the daily break-even is built — the arithmetic, step by step

How the daily number is built

StepValueWhy
Cost of goods26.5% of salesevery dollar sold carries this before anything else
Hourly labor17.9% of salesthe part of labor that moves with the schedule
Contribution margin55.7%what each dollar of sales leaves behind to pay fixed cost
Fixed cost, non-labor$49,854.79 / morent, utilities, insurance, subscriptions — arrives empty or full
Fixed cost, labor$24,007.62 / mosalaries and the 1099, which no schedule changes
Break-even$5,104.04 / open day$73,862.41 ÷ 55.7% ÷ 26.0 open days

Where the money goes

Monthly average across 2026-01, 2026-02, 2026-03, 2026-04, 2026-05, 2026-06, 2026-07, 2026-08. 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$18,210.6813.3%10
Rent & occupancyfixed$12,127.888.8%1
Foodvariable$11,378.158.3%6
Winevariable$3,900.202.8%6
Advertisingfixed$2,504.921.8%5
Electricityfixed$2,291.881.7%1
Marketingfixed$2,016.941.5%3
Cleaning suppliesfixed$1,968.171.4%2
Subscriptions & softwarefixed$1,710.951.2%9
Paper suppliesfixed$1,625.701.2%3
Accountingfixed$1,502.621.1%1
Insurancefixed$1,443.611.1%1
Palillo — under review provisionalfixed$1,247.380.9%1
Glasswarefixed$951.000.7%3
Equipment rentalfixed$942.900.7%2
BOH suppliesfixed$834.260.6%6
Waste removalfixed$696.800.5%1
Other beveragevariable$670.350.5%8
Beervariable$489.780.4%2
Disability & PFL insurance provisionalfixed$467.270.3%1
Repairs — equipmentfixed$456.090.3%4
Security & alarmfixed$448.290.3%2
Photography & printingfixed$391.940.3%3
Office suppliesfixed$305.230.2%11
FOH suppliesfixed$269.470.2%5
Telephone & internetfixed$247.240.2%2
Legalfixed$225.000.2%1
Linen & laundryfixed$208.840.2%1
Pest controlfixed$154.670.1%2
Travel & entertainmentfixed$117.010.1%3
Social media & events provisionalfixed$62.500.0%1
8 small lines, each under $100/mo (Flowers & decor, Maintenance, Other expenses, Repairs — general, Meals & entertainment, General & admin…)$205.810.1%9
Total non-labor$70,073.5351.1%85
The ledger detail — vendor by vendor, provisional categories, and one-off bills

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$12,127.88$4,410.1422every month
SOUTHERN GLAZER'S OF NY METROLiquor$11,606.14$2,264.6141every month
Baldor FoodsFood$10,789.18$461.57187every month
Union Beer DistributorsLiquor$3,224.09$396.8165every month
Fruit of the VinWine$3,144.83$599.0142every month
Empire MerchantsLiquor$3,021.41$863.2628every month
CON EDISONElectricity$2,291.88$2,619.297every month
TO RISE LLCPaper supplies$1,799.01$257.0056every 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 — under review, $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.
So what $5,104.04 an open day is the line. Fri medians $9,641.25 and Tue medians $2,167.50 — so the weekend pays for the week and the quiet days are carried. The levers: the hourly half of labor, and whether a quiet day earns its open.

9Break-even

every expense, one number

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

Sweet Linda has to take $5,104.04 every open day, $30,624.26 a week, to cover everything it spends.

Below that, the day loses money. Above it, every extra dollar keeps 56 cents.

Covers everything: drink and food cost, all four ways people are paid, employer taxes as actually paid, rent, utilities, marketing, financing, every bill. Basis: Paperchase P&L, last four 4-week periods (20/04/2026 to 09/08/2026) — the fullest cost picture: marketing, financing, claims and employer taxes as actually paid.

Only one daily number is the target. Costs run $4,362.91 every calendar day, but money only arrives on open days — so the bar is $5,104.04 per open day.

Must take, per open day$5,104.04the target — 26.0 open days a month
Costs us, per calendar day$4,362.91all 7 days. Rent lands on a Monday too
Per week$30,624.26six trading days
Per month$132,705.12the whole cost base
Per year$1,592,461.4052 weeks at the same cost base
How the number is built — every cost, line by line

Everything the business spends

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

ExpenseBehavesPer monthPer open dayWhere it comes from
Cost of goodsvariable$34,649.17$1,332.6626.5% of sales — liquor, wine, beer, food
Hourly laborvariable$8,829.44$339.5917.9% of sales — the part a schedule moves
Salaries and 1099fixed$24,007.62$923.37flat every week, whatever the hours
Rent and occupancyfixed$12,127.88$466.46the largest single fixed bill
Utilitiesfixed$2,987.41$114.90electric, phone, alarm
Everything elsefixed$20,309.08$781.12supplies, marketing, insurance, professional fees, subscriptions
Everything$102,910.60$3,958.10at $137,060.23 of sales a month

Which days actually clear it

The bar is $5,104.04 every open day — rent does not care what day it is. What each day takes is not the same at all.

DayTypical salesNeedsGapVerdict
Tue$2,167.50$5,104.04-$2,936.54does not cover itself
Wed$3,010.25$5,104.04-$2,093.79does not cover itself
Thu$4,256.00$5,104.04-$848.04does not cover itself
Fri$9,641.25$5,104.04+$4,537.21clears it, and carries part of another day
Sat$9,342.50$5,104.04+$4,238.46clears it, and carries part of another day
Sun$2,872.00$5,104.04-$2,232.04does not cover itself

$8,110.41 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 — the levers, priced

What would move the number

If this changedBreak-even per day becomesChangeWhat it would take
Cost of goods improves 2 points$4,926.92-$177.12pour cost from 26.5% to 24.5% — pricing, portioning or supplier terms
Hourly labor comes down 3 points$4,842.93-$261.11the schedule, not the wage — sector 2 shows which hours are reachable
Rent were 10% lower$5,020.15-$83.89a renegotiation, not an operating decision
One more open day a week$5,103.96-$0.08same 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 Break-even clears by $4,355.11 a month — about 0.9 days of trading. Real, but thin: one bad fortnight erases it. The protection is closing the gap between $5,104.04 and what Tuesday and Wednesday actually take.

10Business Economics

2026-01, 2026-02, 2026-03, 2026-04, 2026-05, 2026-06, 2026-07, 2026-08

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

EBITDA / month$34,149.6424.9% of sales. No interest and no depreciation are on file, so this equals operating profit — the word is bigger than the difference
Prime cost49.2%product + all labor = $67,486.23 a month. The full-service rule of thumb is ~60%
One point of prime cost$1,370.60per month, straight to profit. The gap to the benchmark is -$14,802.50 a month

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

MonthNet salesPer orderPer guestPer open dayGuests / day
2026-01$38,107.87$254.05$68.17$7,621.57112
2026-06$137,532.50$94.14$47.85$5,979.67125
2026-07$118,064.50$66.03$37.78$5,133.24136
2026-08$144,609.00$92.94$41.33$6,025.38146

Spend per guest moved $68.17 → $41.33 while guests per day moved 112 → 146 — 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 $12,164.10 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.

The accountants’ bottom line — Paperchase, period by period

Paperchase closes the books in four-week periods and sees costs the register never does — marketing, financing, insurance, claims. This is the fullest measure of what the business actually made. Latest close: P8, 13/07/2026 - 09/08/2026.

Revenue, P8$133,038.50four weeks
Net result-$1,519.84after every cost the accountants count
Marketing spend$5,731.10a cost only this view sees
P1
−$36,201
P2
−$35,888
▲ $313 vs P1 — sales up $27,143, payroll up $9,908
P3
−$12,554
▲ $23,333 vs P2 — product cost cut $12,231, other operating costs cut $6,837
P4
+$5,329
▲ $17,883 vs P3 — payroll cut $12,160, sales up $8,757
P5
+$14,165
▲ $8,836 vs P4 — product cost cut $12,527, sales down $8,227
P6
+$295
▼ $13,870 vs P5 — product cost up $18,723, sales up $5,006
P7
−$5,614
▼ $5,909 vs P6 — sales down $34,732, product cost cut $21,202
P8
−$1,520
▲ $4,094 vs P7 — sales up $31,924, product cost up $13,254

The recovery is the headline: from −$36,200.82 in the first period of the year to the break-even line now. The register-side view above reads richer because marketing and financing costs only appear in this one — when the two views disagree, this is the truer bottom line. New Paperchase files update this section as they arrive.

Profit, week by week — and why it moved

Between accountant closes, each week's result is modeled the same way the break-even is built: measured sales × the 56% margin, minus the $17,045/week cost base. Directional, not a close — but the sales and event figures are measured to the dollar.

Jul 13–19
+$1,172
Jul 20–26
−$1,306
trading down $10,650 on the week before · private events rang $6,200
Jul 27–Aug 2
−$1,360
trading up $6,103 on the week before
Aug 3–9
+$7,362
trading down $3,005 on the week before · private events rang $18,675
Aug 10–16
−$2,363
trading up $1,203 on the week before
Aug 17–23
−$756
trading down $189 on the week before · private events rang $3,075
Aug 24–30
+$3,281
trading up $3,778 on the week before · private events rang $6,550
Aug 31–Sep 6
+$266
trading up $1,134 on the week before
Sep 7–13
+$3,869 (week in progress)
trading up $6,472 on the week before

Every green bar is a week that paid all its bills at the full Paperchase cost base; a red bar fell short of the $30,624 break-even week. The cause lines split the move into trading (the room's own trade) and private events, both measured from the register.

Food sales vs bar sales

Toast's own categories, trading only — events held apart. Measured 2026-01 through 2026-08.

Bar91%$43,829.52 a month · about $1,685.75 an open day
Food9%$4,442.21 a month · about $170.85 an open day

Nine of every ten trading dollars come across the bar. Food sells about $170.85 an open day — one to two tables’ worth. That is the baseline every food move (the cocktailPIZZA test included) gets measured against: the goal is making the 10% grow without slowing the 90%.

So what Two honest bottom lines live in this sector. The register-and-ledger view earns 24.9% at the operating line; Paperchase’s fuller books — marketing, financing, employer taxes as paid — bring the same months to roughly break-even. Both are true; they count different costs. The lever is one and the same: prime cost at 49.2% against a ~60% bar.

11Team

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. 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 SpearsServers282$24,378.50$76.50Fri $92.42/check611
Teresa Van BeekServers241$18,785.00$60.00Thu $83.19/check98
Gianna CooperServers211$18,421.00$78.00Wed $89.07/check1646
Eisa BushServers218$17,200.00$57.00Thu $96.32/check63
Katherine DyballServers113$9,464.00$72.00Thu $95.39/check111
Calum PowersBartenders176$7,677.00$40.00Thu $57.34/check614
Jennifer HuynhBartenders161$6,360.50$38.00Thu $44.31/check411
Madeline Marquis SamidBartenders97$4,208.00$39.00Wed $49.04/check118
Angel MorelBarbacks17$719.00$15.00Sun $102.40/check6
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 team16on the Toast roster now
Median tenure6 mohalf the team longer, half shorter
Left in 90 days2people who actually worked here
Turnover pace~75%estimated yearly, from 180 days of departures — NYC hospitality runs 70–100%

Overtime by week: 07-27: 21h · 08-03: 18h · 08-10: 11h · 08-17: 6h · 08-24: 4h · 08-31: 7h. Overtime creeping up while sales stay flat is the earliest sign a schedule no longer fits the business.

Carrying the current overtime: Jorge Genaro (27.5h), 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 — 17 months (since 2025-04-15)
Callie Spears — 14 months (since 2025-07-01)
Jennifer Huynh — 13 months (since 2025-08-21)
Juan Carlos Calel Sente — 8 months (since 2026-01-19)
Tomas Calel Sente — 8 months (since 2026-01-19)
David DeBiasi — 7 months (since 2026-02-16)
Gianna Cooper — 6 months (since 2026-02-23)
Jhony Andrade — 6 months (since 2026-03-23)
Jorge Genaro — 5 months (since 2026-04-12)
Eisa Bush — 4 months (since 2026-05-17)
Calum Powers — 4 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 — 1 months (since 2026-08-09)
Brian Ramirez — 1 months (since 2026-08-10)
So what Schedule people to their measured strengths. One growth focus per person, a real conversation inside every 30 days, mistakes treated as information. The measured half updates itself; the judgment half compounds.

12Voids, Comps & Giveaways

94 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 week122items — ≈ $2,740.00 menu value, week of 09-07
This week: Comp57items — ≈ $1,362.00
This week: Server Error29items — ≈ $592.00

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
Comp57
Server Error29
Error18
Customer Changed Mind8
Recovery5
86ed3
Testing/Training1
Dissatisfy1
This week122
Last week, for scale94

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 week400 today · Thank You Charge: 22 · Thank you: 18
Manager Comp - Item15uses this week
Manager Comp - Check2uses this week
Employee Discount - Check1uses this week
The full void register — 216 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
09-12Sparkling Water1CompCallie Spears
09-12Sparkling Water1CompCallie Spears
09-12Prosecco / Terre del Trebbia2CompCallie Spears
09-12Cocktail1CompCallie Spears
09-12Mineral Water1CompCallie Spears
09-12Laelia3CompCallie Spears
09-12IPA - GRIMM1CompEisa Bush
09-12La Cabra Espresso1Customer Changed MindEisa Bush
09-12Tanqueray1Customer Changed MindEisa Bush
09-12Thank you1ErrorCallie Spears
09-12Purple Lychee1CompCallie Spears
09-12Honey Whipped Ricotta1CompCallie Spears
09-12ZbioticZ2CompCallie Spears
09-12Matcha - Tini1CompCallie Spears
09-12Old Bay Fries1CompCallie Spears
09-12Matcha - Tini1ErrorEisa Bush
09-12Purple Lychee1ErrorCalum Powers
09-12La Cabra Espresso2ErrorCalum Powers
09-12BTL - Litote Saint Joseph 20231Customer Changed MindEisa Bush
09-12Pornstar Martini1ErrorCalum Powers
09-12Nolet's Dry Gin1Testing/TrainingJennifer Huynh
09-12Honey Whipped Ricotta1RecoveryCallie Spears
09-12La Cabra Espresso1ErrorCalum Powers
09-12S O C K S1ErrorCalum Powers
09-12Laelia2CompCallie Spears
09-12Purple Lychee1CompCallie Spears
09-12Pornstar Martini1CompCallie Spears
09-12Blossom1CompCallie Spears
09-12APLOS World (non alc)1CompCallie Spears
09-12Matcha - Tini1CompCallie Spears
09-12Guacamole1DissatisfyTeresa Van Beek
09-12Matcha - Tini1Customer Changed MindTeresa Van Beek
09-12La Cabra Espresso1ErrorTeresa Van Beek
09-12Purple Lychee1ErrorTeresa Van Beek
09-12Ketel One1CompCallie Spears
09-12Mentor X (non alc)1CompCallie Spears
09-12Chicken Tenders1ErrorTeresa Van Beek
09-12S O C K S1ErrorTeresa Van Beek
09-12Hendricks1ErrorJennifer Huynh
09-12Bheeyo Orange1Server ErrorEisa Bush
09-11S O C K S1Server ErrorJennifer Huynh
09-11Negroni1Server ErrorJennifer Huynh
09-11Matcha - Tini1Server ErrorJennifer Huynh
09-11Grey Goose1Server ErrorJennifer Huynh
09-11818 Reposado1Server ErrorJennifer Huynh
09-11Spring 441Server ErrorJennifer Huynh
09-11Matcha - Tini1Server ErrorJennifer Huynh
09-11Matcha - Tini1Server ErrorJennifer Huynh
09-11Matcha - Tini1Server ErrorJennifer Huynh
09-11Matcha - Tini1Server ErrorJennifer Huynh
09-11818 Reposado1Server ErrorJennifer Huynh
09-11818 Reposado1Server ErrorJennifer Huynh
09-11Pornstar Martini1Server ErrorJennifer Huynh
09-11La Cabra Espresso1Server ErrorJennifer Huynh
09-11Spring 441Server ErrorJennifer Huynh
09-11818 Reposado1Server ErrorJennifer Huynh
09-11La Cabra Espresso1Server ErrorJennifer Huynh
09-11818 Reposado1Server ErrorJennifer Huynh
09-11Matcha - Tini1Server ErrorJennifer Huynh
09-11818 Reposado1Server ErrorJennifer Huynh
09-11818 Reposado1Server ErrorJennifer Huynh
09-11Pornstar Martini1Server ErrorJennifer Huynh
09-11ACGT Negroni2CompTeresa Van Beek
09-11Building On Fashion1CompTeresa Van Beek
09-11APLOS World (non alc)2CompTeresa Van Beek
09-11Margarita3CompTeresa Van Beek
09-11Negroni2CompTeresa Van Beek
09-11Negroni1CompTeresa Van Beek
09-11S O C K S1CompTeresa Van Beek
09-11Pornstar Martini1CompTeresa Van Beek
09-11Manhattan1Server ErrorSophie ABREU
09-11S O C K S1Server ErrorSophie ABREU
09-11S O C K S1Server ErrorSophie ABREU
09-11Purple Lychee2Server ErrorTeresa Van Beek
09-11APLOS World (non alc)1CompGianna Cooper
09-11S O C K S1CompGianna Cooper
09-11La Cabra Espresso1Customer Changed MindCallie Spears
09-11Thank You Charge1Customer Changed MindJennifer Huynh
09-11Matcha - Tini1Customer Changed MindTeresa Van Beek
09-11Laelia1RecoveryTeresa Van Beek
09-11La Cabra Espresso1RecoveryTeresa Van Beek
09-11Bombay Sapphire1RecoveryTeresa Van Beek
09-11Tito's2RecoveryTeresa Van Beek
09-11Spring 441CompGianna Cooper
09-11Grey Goose1CompGianna Cooper
09-11Mezcal Union1CompGianna Cooper
09-11BTL Prosecco / Terre del Trebbia1CompGianna Cooper
09-11ZbioticZ1CompGianna Cooper
09-11ZbioticZ1CompGianna Cooper
09-11Thank You Charge1CompCallie Spears
09-11IPA - GRIMM1ErrorGianna Cooper
09-11Chicken Tenders1CompCallie Spears
09-11Mini Burger Slider2CompCallie Spears
09-11Honey Whipped Ricotta1CompCallie Spears
09-11Blossom1Customer Changed MindSophie ABREU
09-11Amaro Nonino1Server ErrorGianna Cooper
09-10Prosecco / Terre del Trebbia2ErrorCalum Powers
09-10Laelia4CompCallie Spears
09-10Grey Goose4CompCallie Spears
09-10Pilsner - POLISHED2CompCallie Spears
09-10Patron Silver1CompJennifer Huynh
09-10Don Julio Reposado1ErrorEisa Bush
09-10Rosé1ErrorEisa Bush
09-10Coke1CompEisa Bush
09-10Brunello1CompEisa Bush
09-10Brunello1CompEisa Bush
09-10Building On Fashion1CompEisa Bush
09-10Manhattan1CompEisa Bush
09-10Manhattan1ErrorCalum Powers
09-10French 751CompCallie Spears
09-10Diet Coke1ErrorJennifer Huynh
09-10Shrimp Tacos1CompEisa Bush
09-10ACGT Negroni1Server ErrorEisa Bush
09-10Burger1CompJennifer Huynh
09-10Cocktail186edJennifer Huynh
09-10S O C K S186edCalum Powers
09-09Oban 14 Single Malt3CompGianna Cooper
09-09Sparkling Water1CompGianna Cooper
09-09Oban 14 Single Malt1CompGianna Cooper
09-09Matcha - Tini1CompGianna Cooper
09-09APLOS World (non alc)1CompGianna Cooper
09-09Sparkling Water186edGianna Cooper
09-06Macallan 121Server ErrorSophie ABREU
09-05Matcha - Tini4CompCalum Powers
09-05Ketel One1CompCalum Powers
09-05Laelia2CompCalum Powers
09-05Matcha - Tini1CompCalum Powers
09-05Tito's2CompCalum Powers
09-05Laphroaig Oak Select1CompCalum Powers
09-05Burger1Server ErrorDavid DeBiasi
09-05Negroni1CompCallie Spears
09-05Cocktail1Testing/TrainingJennifer Huynh
09-05Blossom1ErrorCalum Powers
09-05Bombay Sapphire1CompCalum Powers
09-05La Cabra Espresso2CompCalum Powers
09-05Cosmopolitan1Mininum Spend Record ChargeJennifer Huynh
09-05Blossom1Mininum Spend Record ChargeJennifer Huynh
09-05La Cabra Espresso2Mininum Spend Record ChargeJennifer Huynh
09-05Tito's2Mininum Spend Record ChargeJennifer Huynh
09-05Tito's1Mininum Spend Record ChargeJennifer Huynh
09-05Blossom1Mininum Spend Record ChargeJennifer Huynh
09-05Pornstar Martini1Mininum Spend Record ChargeJennifer Huynh
09-05Margarita1Mininum Spend Record ChargeJennifer Huynh
09-05Cocktail1Mininum Spend Record ChargeJennifer Huynh
09-05Blossom1Mininum Spend Record ChargeJennifer Huynh
09-05Cosmopolitan1Mininum Spend Record ChargeJennifer Huynh
09-05Tito's3Mininum Spend Record ChargeJennifer Huynh
09-05Tito's4Mininum Spend Record ChargeJennifer Huynh
09-05Rosé2Mininum Spend Record ChargeJennifer Huynh
09-05Laelia1Mininum Spend Record ChargeJennifer Huynh
09-05Sancerre1Mininum Spend Record ChargeJennifer Huynh
09-05La Cabra Espresso2Mininum Spend Record ChargeJennifer Huynh
09-05Pornstar Martini1Mininum Spend Record ChargeJennifer Huynh
09-05Shots7Mininum Spend Record ChargeJennifer Huynh
09-05Laelia1Mininum Spend Record ChargeJennifer Huynh
09-05Pornstar Martini1Mininum Spend Record ChargeJennifer Huynh
09-05Laelia1Mininum Spend Record ChargeJennifer Huynh
09-05Tito's3Mininum Spend Record ChargeJennifer Huynh
09-05Cocktail1Mininum Spend Record ChargeJennifer Huynh
09-05Litote - Saint Joseph 20231ErrorCallie Spears
09-05Matcha - Tini1CompManagement
09-05S O C K S1CompManagement
09-05ZbioticZ1CompJennifer Huynh
09-05Frose Marg - Happy Hour1ErrorEisa Bush
09-05S O C K S1Server ErrorCallie Spears
09-05Pigs in a Blanket186edTeresa Van Beek
09-05Pinot Noir Melon 20221CompCalum Powers
09-05Aperol Spritz1CompCalum Powers
09-05Tanqueray1CompEisa Bush
09-05Building On Fashion1CompEisa Bush
09-05S O C K S1ErrorSophie ABREU
09-05S O C K S1Mininum Spend Record ChargeTeresa Van Beek
09-05Blossom1Mininum Spend Record ChargeTeresa Van Beek
09-05Matcha - Tini1Mininum Spend Record ChargeTeresa Van Beek
09-05Blossom1CompTeresa Van Beek
09-05La Cabra Espresso2CompTeresa Van Beek
09-05Matcha - Tini1CompTeresa Van Beek
09-05Sancerre1CompTeresa Van Beek
09-05S O C K S1CompTeresa Van Beek
09-04Burger2CompManagement
09-04S O C K S1CompKatherine Dyball
09-04Pornstar Martini1ErrorJennifer Huynh
09-04Pornstar Martini1ErrorJennifer Huynh
09-04Hugo Spritz1ErrorGianna Cooper
09-04Aperol Spritz1ErrorGianna Cooper
09-04La Cabra Espresso1ErrorKatherine Dyball
09-04Shots1ErrorJennifer Huynh
09-04ZbioticZ1CompJennifer Huynh
09-04Negroni1CompJennifer Huynh
09-04Pornstar Martini1CompKatherine Dyball
09-04Pornstar Martini1CompKatherine Dyball
09-04ZbioticZ1CompJennifer Huynh
09-04ZbioticZ1CompJennifer Huynh
09-04ACGT Negroni1CompGianna Cooper
09-04ZbioticZ1CompJennifer Huynh
09-04Honey Whipped Ricotta1ErrorKatherine Dyball
09-04Guacamole1ErrorKatherine Dyball
09-04Pigs in a Blanket186edGianna Cooper
09-04Pigs in a Blanket186edCallie Spears
09-04Burger186edCallie Spears
09-04Pita1CompCallie Spears
09-03S O C K S1ErrorKatherine Dyball
09-03Purple Lychee1ErrorKatherine Dyball
09-03Paloma2ErrorKatherine Dyball
09-03Bombay Sapphire1ErrorKatherine Dyball
09-03Pornstar Martini1ErrorKatherine Dyball
09-03Pornstar Martini1ErrorKatherine Dyball
09-03Matcha - Tini1ErrorKatherine Dyball
09-03Purple Lychee1ErrorKatherine Dyball
09-03APLOS World (non alc)1ErrorKatherine Dyball
09-03Tito's1CompKatherine Dyball
09-03ZbioticZ1CompJennifer Huynh
09-03ZbioticZ1CompJennifer Huynh
09-03ZbioticZ1CompJennifer Huynh
09-02Spring 446CompMadeline Marquis Samid
09-01La Cabra Espresso1CompCalum Powers

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.

16Inventory

counted 2026-09-08 · 174 items · 22 weekly counts on file

This section answers: “What is sitting in the house — and what is it worth?”

Everything counted here is bar product — this is the bar’s shelf, category by category, valued at what it cost to buy. The categories are the count sheet’s own sections.

On hand, at cost$20,152wholesale, from the sheet's own prices — cash sitting on the shelves
Retail potential$76,101estimate: cost × the measured 3.8× sales-to-product-cost ratio (Paperchase P&L)
Below par47items short of their par — $3,665 of buying brings all to par · 15 already flagged to order
Where the shelf money sits, biggest first. Bottles counts open bottles in tenths, the way the count sheet records them.
CategoryOn hand, at costShare of valueBelow parCost to parItemsBottles
Liqueurs & Amari$5,856
29%
11$57538214
Tequila$3,239
16%
4$5742057
Whiskey & Scotch$3,165
16%
12$6133351
Vodka$2,287
11%
6$7611485
Mezcal$1,885
9%
3$1501036
Wine$1,557
8%
2$14814101
Gin$1,268
6%
5$7671349
Beer$355
2%
273
Non-alcoholic$263
1%
19
Rum$230
1%
4$771113
Water$47
0%
219
All bar product$20,15247$3,665174706
The buy list — below-par items, biggest gaps first
ItemCategoryOn handParShortCost to par
Empress gin IndigoGin5.71812.3$409
818 reposadoTequila01818$396
Bombay sapphireGin71811$316
Jack Daniel's single barrel bourbonWhiskey & Scotch0.565.5$270
HakuVodka71811$257
Fruitful passion fruitLiqueurs & Amari8.2189.8$191
Mujen 35%Vodka6126$174
Spring 44Vodka9.7188.3$163
So whatStock is cash wearing a costume. $20,152 sits on the shelves — and the biggest single pile is Liqueurs & Amari at $5,856, 29% of the shelf's value. As the Monday counts accumulate here, the next step is true usage (count + purchases − next count) against what Toast sold — the difference is overpour, waste and shrink, priced.

15Upcoming

next 14 days · 10 event(s) further out

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

Next date worth planning for: NY Fashion Week, Sept edition (dates approx.) — 1 day out (2026-09-14).

Rain risk, next 14 days0 days50%+ chance of rain in the forecast
Biggest rain effect on fileSun +67%rain $999.00 vs dry $597.00 (n=4/9)
Forecast reaches2026-09-28refreshed 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
2026-09-14MonNY Fashion Week, Sept edition (dates approx.)overcast, 73/58°F, 12% rainno data
2026-09-15TueNY Fashion Week, Sept edition (dates approx.)overcast, 74/52°F, 0% rain$2,167.50
2026-09-16WedNY Fashion Week, Sept edition (dates approx.)overcast, 79/66°F, 1% rain$3,010.25$1,156.00
2026-09-17ThuFeast of San Gennaro (dates approx.)drizzle, 83/70°F, 9% rain$4,256.00$3,795.01
2026-09-18FriFeast of San Gennaro (dates approx.)drizzle, 78/68°F, 10% rain$9,641.25$2,688.02
2026-09-19SatFeast of San Gennaro (dates approx.)overcast, 78/69°F, 22% rain$9,342.50$5,596.26
2026-09-20SunFeast of San Gennaro (dates approx.)rain showers, 77/69°F, 27% rain$2,872.00$4,977.02
2026-09-21MonFeast of San Gennaro (dates approx.)overcast, 72/60°F, 26% rainno data$474.00
2026-09-22Tuerain, 66/58°F, 24% rain$2,167.50
2026-09-23Wedrain showers, 65/59°F, 25% rain$3,010.25$1,129.00
2026-09-24Thuovercast, 70/58°F, 19% rain$4,256.00$1,760.50
2026-09-25Fripartly cloudy, 70/60°F, 17% rain$9,641.25$6,724.00
2026-09-26Satovercast, 63/55°F, 16% rain$9,342.50$7,518.00
2026-09-27Sunovercast, 70/53°F, 10% rain$2,872.00$5,630.01

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
Halloween48d2026-10-31$4,720.00 (-50% 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.
48d2026-10-31$4,720.00 (-50% vs a typical week of those days)
NYC Marathon
MONETIZE: marathon Sunday is a daytime drinking holiday — brunch-to-evening arc, finishers and spectators.
49d2026-11-01$5,636.01 (+96% vs a typical week of those days)
Thanksgiving / Black Friday73d2026-11-25 – 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.
73d2026-11-25no clean comparison — closed, or not trading yet back then
SantaCon (customary date, approx.)
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.
90d2026-12-12$7,181.00 (-23% vs a typical week of those days)
Christmas Eve102d2026-12-24$0.00 (-100% vs a typical week of those days)
Christmas Day103d2026-12-25$0.00 (-100% vs a typical week of those days)
New Year's Eve109d2026-12-31$6,372.08 (+50% vs a typical week of those days)
New Year's Day110d2027-01-01$0.00 (-100% vs a typical week of those days)

From our end — what the house is launching

cocktailPIZZA — Testing now. In menu testing the week of Aug 24.
Rum guava cocktail — Ready to launch. Recipe finalized — ready to go on the menu.
So what NY Fashion Week, Sept edition (dates approx.) is 1 days out — worth locking the schedule and any promo for it now rather than the week of. 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 2026-09-13 — 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 416 scheduled hours now has a pay rate behind it. 184 of them have a printed start and end time as well. The other 232 are priced correctly but end in a word — “CLOSE”, “1st Cut”, “2nd Cut”, “PREP” — so their length comes from policy rather than a clock.

184 h measured & priced232 h priced, shift end from policy

Every hour is priced — the labor figure is the figure. Residual play: 30 minutes either way on the 25 policy-ended shifts moves the week ±$167.58.

The numbers

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

Hourly wages$4,937.76paid by the hour · 416 of 416 hours priced
Salaried, on the schedule$2,175.00Brian Ramirez, Jhony Andrade — flat, hours do not change it
Salaried, not scheduled$2,307.69GM
1099 contractors$500.00Sara — vendors, no employer tax owed
Employer payroll tax$0.00$9,420.45 W-2 payroll × 0.0%
Fully loaded$9,920.45all four pay types + employer tax
Cost per scheduled hour$17.09$7,112.76 ÷ 416 h
Scheduled hours416184 printed · 232 policy
Overtime4.0 h$138.00 · above 40 h at 1.5×
Net sales (projected)$40,446.00median of recent complete weeks

Labor is 24.5% of projected sales this week. That is now a real figure, not a floor — every scheduled hour is priced. The band around it is 24.1%–24.9%, 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 only24.5%$9,920.45 ÷ $40,446.00
Labor % — with employer tax24.5%$9,920.45 ÷ $40,446.00
Labor % — if cut times are ±30 min out24.1% – 24.9%25 policy-ended shifts × 30 min × each person's rate
Sales per labor hour$97.19$40,446.00 ÷ 416 h
Labor cost per sales dollar$0.245wages ÷ net sales
The week

Where the hours sit against the money

Mon7
12 h
2 on the floor
dark
$0.00
Tue8
45 h
5 on the floor
$1,141.00 proj.
Wed9
47 h
5 on the floor
$3,119.00 proj.
Thu10
83 h
10 on the floor
$10,414.00 proj.
Fri11
94 h
11 on the floor
$10,748.00 proj.
Sat12
105 h
11 on the floor
$12,152.00 proj.
Sun13
30 h
3 on the floor
$2,872.00 proj.

Sales shown are projected — 6 day(s) already traded use the real Toast figure ($37,574 so far); the rest is the median net sales per weekday across the 8 most recent COMPLETE weeks in the database (2026-07-13 .. 2026-09-06). 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

Servers
$1,198.88 91.8 h · 4 people · avg $13.06/h on priced hours
Dish / Porter
$1,648.00 81.5 h · 3 people · avg $20.22/h on priced hours
Bartenders
$1,054.83 75.3 h · 4 people · avg $14.00/h on priced hours
Barbacks
$953.05 74.0 h · 3 people · avg $12.88/h on priced hours
Kitchen
$2,258.00 71.0 h · 2 people · avg $31.80/h on priced hours · 4.0 h overtime
HOST/FLOOR
$0.00 22.5 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 blended20.031.031.0$465.00
David DeBiasiBarbacks$11.35 blended30.034.034.0$385.90
Jose CruzBarbacks$11.35 blended10.09.09.0$102.15
Calum PowersBartenders$12.00 blended30.026.326.3$316.00
Jennifer HuynhBartenders$17.00 blended40.030.230.2$512.83
Madeline Marquis SamidBartenders$12.00 blended10.09.79.7$116.00
Sophia AbreuBartenders$12.00 blended10.09.29.2$110.00
Jhony AndradeDish / Porterflat weekly547.50.047.5$975.00
Jorge GenaroDish / Porter$20.00 blended327.00.027.0$540.00
Tomas Calel SenteDish / Porter$19.00 blended17.00.07.0$133.00
SaraHOST/FLOORpaid as 1099 — in the contractor line322.50.022.5$0.00
Brian RamirezKitchenflat weekly427.00.027.0$1,200.00
Lidia TianKitchen$23.00 blended544.00.044.04.0$1,058.00
Callie SpearsServers$17.00 blended30.025.825.8$439.17
Eisa BushServers$11.35 blended39.014.523.5$266.72
Gianna CooperServers$12.00 blended20.016.316.3$196.00
Teresa Van BeekServers$11.35 blended30.026.226.2$296.99
Total184.0232.2416.24.0$4,937.76

Angel Morel — Rate read from the weekly schedule's pay column. Unit inferred from the figure's size.

Callie Spears — Rate read from the weekly schedule's pay column. Unit inferred from the figure's size.

Calum Powers — Rate read from the weekly schedule's pay column. Unit inferred from the figure's size.

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 weekly schedule's pay column. Unit inferred from the figure's size.

Jennifer Huynh — Rate read from the weekly schedule's pay column. Unit inferred from the figure's size.

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.

Jose Cruz — New barback. $11.35/hr from his own Toast punches (first punch 2026-09-11) — Toast wage is the settled rate authority.

Lidia Tian — Hourly at $23.00, costed from her punches — matches what Toast pays per punch. A move to $1,100/week salary is agreed but ON HOLD; see changes_to. Toast paid 30.00 as Event - Kitchen; 22.00 as Line Cook in 2026-01-01; the roster of record says 23.00 and the roster figure is used.

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 weekly schedule's pay column.

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 2026-09-07 stands at 26% of projected revenue against our $10,100.00 weekly ceiling — $10,549.89 in wages on $40,446.00, $449.89 above plan. State the gap in dollars, not points — a room hears $450 louder than 1 points.
2. What actually movedRevenue was $31,102.00, down $5,416.00 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$4,982.69 a week of salary and contractors is committed regardless of the schedule — 50% of labor. It lands on every open day equally, so a $2,167.50 Tuesday carries the same fixed load as a $9,641.25 Friday. Cutting hours does not fix this; volume or fewer open days does.
4. What we still cannot answerNot profitability — that is now measured twice: the register-and-ledger view keeps 24.9% of sales, and Paperchase's fuller books bring the same months to roughly break-even. Both are true; they count different costs. 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. Quote the Paperchase number in any room where "are we profitable" is the question — it is the fuller one.
5. The askConfirm what the provisional vendors actually are (Frank W. Palillo, Shelter Point, Erica Levy). 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
Labor (wages) — every dollar paid for people: hourly wages, salaries and 1099 contractors. By management's choice, employer payroll taxes are not counted in the weekly labor figures — they appear in the monthly P&L, which is built from actual payments.
Employer tax — what the business owes the government on every W-2 dollar — Social Security, Medicare, unemployment, about 8 cents per wage dollar. Real money, paid monthly; counted in the P&L rather than in the weekly labor figures.
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.