Sweet Linda

LABOR & SALES · WEEK OF 2026-09-07 → 2026-09-13

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Sales data current to 2026-09-12 — pulled 1 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 (approx — confirm) · tomorrow Feast of San Gennaro (approx — confirm) · 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.

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.

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?Halloween is 48 days out (2026-10-31).

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.
KPI	Now	The bar	Status	Measured from
Sales, week to date	$37,574.00	pace: $25,520.20	on track	Toast, finished days only
Break-even, per open day	$5,104.04	the bar every open day	watch	ledger + payroll, Jun–Jul base
Labor, % of sales (wages)	26.1%		watch	punches + roster + employer tax
Prime cost (product + labor)	49.2%	rule of thumb ≤60%	on track	ledger, Jun–Jul
Cost of goods, % of sales	25.3%	liquor-led bars run ~24–30%	on track	ledger, Jun–Jul
Net margin (EBITDA)	24.9%	healthy bars run 10–15%	on track	full P&L, Jun–Jul
Schedule accuracy, hours	89%	100% = worked as planned	watch	punches vs schedule, this week
Overtime scheduled this week	4.0 h	0 by design — OT should be bought by a call-out	watch	the schedule as written
Spend per guest (2026-08)	$41.33	prior month $68.17	watch	Toast orders & guests

Decisions on the table

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
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
Turn on Resy card-holds for Friday/Saturday prime slots — 7% of booked parties currently no-show — ≈ $700–$1,500/mo
NYFW Sept 10–16: run the proven contest formula on a midweek night — the record night was contest-driven

2Business Trends

12 complete weeks loaded

This section answers: “Are we growing, or just busy?”

The shape of the year

Each month vs the venue's own average — solid bars are measured, hatched are industry rules of thumb, the outlined bar is now. A soft July is the pattern; September–October is where the year is won.

0.75

Jan

0.78

Feb

0.96

Mar

1.00

Apr

1.08

May

0.85

Jun

0.75

Jul

0.94

Aug

1.12

Sep

1.30

Oct

1.05

Nov

1.25

Dec

1.00 = an average month. Hatched bars are unmeasured guesses and will be replaced by real figures as those months trade.

Guests served

This year29,218guests since 2026-01-01 — the earliest Toast record on file

This week1,442so far, week of 09-07

Last week2,217guests, complete

By day this week: Mon 0 · Tue 33 · Wed 98 · Thu 531 · Fri 402 · Sat 378 · Sun 0. Guest counts are Toast's own, party sizes as rung.

Weeks after 2026-08-09 arrive through the Toast API, which carries no sales-category detail — a private event inside one of those weeks cannot be split out automatically the way the Aug 3 event was. Tell me about booked events and they are held apart by hand.

Strip the events out and trading was $31,102.00 last week — $5,416.00 down, which is ordinary week-to-week noise.

This series routinely swings $4,450.50 a week. A change only counts as real here when it clears that by half again — otherwise a normal Tuesday gets treated as a turning point, which is how operators end up chasing noise.

Trading and events are kept apart. One booked event can be half a week's revenue, and a trend line that mixes the two describes neither.
Week beginning	Trading	Events	Guests	Net per guest	4-week avg
2026-06-15	$27,359.00	—	703	$38.92	$27,359.00
2026-06-22	$33,782.00	—	599	$56.40	$30,570.50
2026-06-29	$9,570.20	—	313	$30.58	$23,570.40
2026-07-06	$30,403.80	—	773	$39.33	$25,278.75
2026-07-13	$32,728.50	—	960	$34.09	$26,621.12
2026-07-20	$28,278.00	—	636	$44.46	$25,245.12
2026-07-27	$28,181.00	—	710	$39.69	$29,897.83
2026-08-03	$23,921.00	$19,930.00	914	$47.98	$33,259.62
2026-08-10	$26,379.00	—	812	$32.49	$31,672.25
2026-08-17	$29,265.00	—	776	$37.71	$31,919.00
2026-08-24	$36,518.00	—	804	$45.42	$34,003.25
2026-08-31	$31,102.00	—	2217	$14.03	$30,816.00

Month over monthThe last four complete weeks did $123,264.00 against $133,038.50 in the four before — -7.3%. Four weeks is short enough to be seasonal; two more months of history would settle it.

The shape of a week

Median, not average — one event night would drag an average and misrepresent a normal Friday.
Day	Median net sales	Share of week	Behaviour
Mon	—	—	closed or no data
Tue	$2,168	7%	dependable (±15%, 8 wks)
Wed	$3,010	10%	dependable (±11%, 8 wks)
Thu	$4,256	14%	variable (±42%, 8 wks)
Fri	$9,641	31%	variable (±49%, 8 wks)
Sat	$9,342	30%	dependable (±17%, 8 wks)
Sun	$2,872	9%	dependable (±29%, 3 wks)

What the menu actually sells

Measured item by item from every check of the last 28 days (Aug 16 – Sep 12). Event packages and buyout recordings are excluded — this is the menu performing, not events.

Top 5 drinks

Pornstar Martini

634 sold$12,500

La Cabra Espresso

543 sold$11,382

S O C K S

436 sold$8,720

Matcha - Tini

365 sold$7,997

Purple Lychee

391 sold$7,820

These five are 42% of all drink sales in the window ($114,342 total).

Top 5 food

Old Bay Fries

156 sold$1,989

Guacamole

65 sold$1,032

Chicken Tenders

51 sold$1,010

Shrimp Tacos

51 sold$951

Honey Whipped Ricotta

58 sold$928

These five are 65% of all food sales in the window ($9,050 total).

The house cocktail program — all of it

Every item in Toast’s House Cocktails menu group over the same window, sold or not.
Cocktail	Sold	Sales	Share of the bar
Pornstar Martini	634	$12,500	11%
La Cabra Espresso	543	$11,382	10%
S O C K S	436	$8,720	8%
Matcha - Tini	365	$7,997	7%
Purple Lychee	391	$7,820	7%
Blossom	298	$5,960	5%
ACGT Negroni	276	$5,512	5%
Building On Fashion	208	$4,750	4%
Mentor X (non alc)	58	$928	1%
APLOS World (non alc)	55	$864	1%
Aperol Spritz	38	$666	1%
ZbioticZ	59	$660	1%
Cocktail	30	$588	1%
FROSE / MARG	21	$315	0%
FROSE / PORNSTAR	9	$135	0%
Mocktail	4	$45	0%
ConfessSHOTS	4	$40	0%
ConfessTail	0	—	not sold in the window
Linda's Candy Aperitifi	0	—	not sold in the window
SEE YOU TOMORROW	0	—	not sold in the window
The program	3,429	$68,881	60% of all drink sales

So what Last week's jump was one event, not growth — do not staff up against revenue that is not repeating. Four-week movements stay directional until more seasons are on file.

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.
Platform	Rating	Reviews	Change	To the next 0.1★	Checked
Yelp	4.4	45	-0.1 stars, -3 reviews	+5 five-star → 4.5	09-10
Tripadvisor	4.5	9	0.0 stars, +0 reviews	+1 five-star → 4.6	09-10
OpenTable	4.8	—	-0.1 stars	—	09-01
Resy	4.6	444	0.0 stars, +12 reviews	+64 five-star → 4.7	09-10
Google	4.8	377	0.0 stars, +6 reviews	+126 five-star → 4.9	09-10

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 size	Spend per head	Table time	$ per table-minute
2	$38	117 min	$0.32
3	$44	109 min	$0.40
4	$35	110 min	$0.31
5	$42	137 min	$0.30
6	$33	104 min	$0.32
7	$35	175 min	$0.20
8	$55	155 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.
Measure	Sweet Linda	East Village average
Rating	4.8 ★	4.6 ★
Spend per cover	$41.50	$55.87
Covers, last month	289	1803

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.

638

07-20

688

07-27

902

08-03

798

08-10

763

08-17

884

08-24

1699

08-31

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.
Table	Room	Visits	Units	Units/visit	Revenue on those checks
405	OUTDOOR	4	14	3.5	$860.00
102	Room 1	5	9	1.8	$925.00
Nook2	Disco Room	4	7	1.8	$487.00
B7	Disco Room	3	7	2.3	$704.00
B5	Disco Room	5	6	1.2	$234.00
Nook1	Disco Room	4	5	1.2	$401.00
101	Room 1	3	5	1.7	$412.00
H1	Room 2	3	5	1.7	$248.00
205	Room 2	2	5	2.5	$439.00
302	Disco Room	2	5	2.5	$668.00
202	Room 2	2	4	2.0	$327.00
301	Disco Room	2	4	2.0	$490.00
H2	Room 2	2	4	2.0	$199.00
H3	Room 2	3	3	1.0	$296.00
B1	Disco Room	2	3	1.5	$158.00
103	Room 1	2	3	1.5	$222.00
B8	Disco Room	2	2	1.0	$90.00
B2	Disco Room	2	2	1.0	$124.00
B9	Disco Room	1	2	2.0	$66.00
D7	Disco Room	1	2	2.0	$64.00
104	Room 1	1	2	2.0	$95.00
201	Room 2	1	1	1.0	$45.00
503	OUTDOOR	1	1	1.0	$139.00
200	Room 2	1	1	1.0	$83.00
204	Room 2	1	1	1.0	$151.00
B10	Disco Room	1	1	1.0	$28.00
C	Disco Room	1	1	1.0	$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%).

Date	Table	Room	Guests	Units	Check
09-12	B5	Disco Room	1	1	$38.00
09-12	Nook2	Disco Room	2	2	$66.00
09-12	201	Room 2	2	1	$45.00
09-12	102	Room 1	2	1	$98.00
09-12	Nook1	Disco Room	1	2	$125.00
09-12	405	OUTDOOR	4	4	$193.00
09-12	H3	Room 2	2	1	$134.00
09-12	B5	Disco Room	1	1	$33.00
09-12	102	Room 1	2	1	$140.00
09-12	205	Room 2	2	1	$154.00
09-12	102	Room 1	6	1	$215.00
09-11	503	OUTDOOR	2	1	$139.00
09-11	B7	Disco Room	1	1	$25.00
09-10	B8	Disco Room	1	1	$34.00
09-06	101	Room 1	4	2	$166.00
09-06	Nook2	Disco Room	1	1	$74.00
09-03	H3	Room 2	2	1	$150.00
09-03	B1	Disco Room	1	1	$80.00
09-03	B5	Disco Room	1	2	$41.00
09-02	Nook1	Disco Room	3	1	$101.00
08-30	H3	Room 2	0	1	$12.00
08-29	B2	Disco Room	2	1	$76.00
08-29	202	Room 2	2	2	$221.00
08-29	405	OUTDOOR	2	1	$25.00
08-29	301	Disco Room	3	1	$74.00
08-28	H2	Room 2	2	2	$114.00
08-28	405	OUTDOOR	4	7	$365.00
08-25	101	Room 1	2	2	$73.00
08-22	Nook1	Disco Room	3	1	$101.00
08-22	103	Room 1	1	2	$159.00
08-21	Nook2	Disco Room	2	1	$101.00
08-21	H1	Room 2	2	1	$52.00
08-21	B9	Disco Room	2	2	$66.00
08-21	B8	Disco Room	2	1	$56.00
08-21	405	OUTDOOR	5	2	$277.00
08-21	102	Room 1	2	2	$138.00
08-20	200	Room 2	2	1	$83.00
08-15	B7	Disco Room	2	2	$24.00
08-15	B5	Disco Room	1	1	$32.00
08-15	302	Disco Room	6	1	$446.00
08-14	204	Room 2	2	1	$151.00
08-14	H1	Room 2	2	2	$84.00
08-14	202	Room 2	2	2	$106.00
08-14	Nook1	Disco Room	4	1	$74.00
08-12	Nook2	Disco Room	3	3	$246.00
08-12	B5	Disco Room	1	1	$90.00
08-08	B1	Disco Room	2	2	$78.00
08-08	103	Room 1	2	1	$63.00
08-08	102	Room 1	4	4	$334.00
08-08	D7	Disco Room	4	2	$64.00
08-06	302	Disco Room	4	4	$222.00
08-06	301	Disco Room	5	3	$416.00
08-06	B7	Disco Room	1	4	$655.00
08-05	B2	Disco Room	1	1	$48.00
08-05	H1	Room 2	2	2	$112.00
08-05	H2	Room 2	2	2	$85.00
07-31	104	Room 1	2	2	$95.00
07-31	101	Room 1	4	1	$173.00
07-31	B10	Disco Room	1	1	$28.00
07-30	205	Room 2	3	4	$285.00
07-23	C	Disco Room	2	1	$8.00

Units taken, by party size — bigger tables rarely take one each, which is the upsell: “one for everyone?”
Party size	Z tables	Avg units
1	14	1.4
2	29	1.4
3	5	2.0
4	8	3.1
5+	4	1.8

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

Who	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat	Sun
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 17:54 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.
Day	Hours	People	Hourly pay	Fixed share	Net sales	vs expected	Labor %	Week to date
Mon 7	12.0	2	$133.00	—	—	—	—	—
Tue 8	45.3	5	$560.83	$830.45	$1,141.00 actual	-47% vs $2,167.50	122%	134%
Wed 9	47.3	5	$719.20	$830.45	$3,119.00 actual	+4% vs $3,010.25	50%	72%
Thu 10	82.8	10	$906.19	$830.45	$10,414.00 actual	+145% vs $4,256.00	17%	33%
Fri 11	93.8	11	$978.42	$830.45	$10,748.00 actual	+11% vs $9,641.25	17%	26%
Sat 12	105.3	11	$1,250.45	$830.45	$12,152.00 actual	+30% vs $9,342.50	17%	23%
Sun 13	29.5	3	$343.65	$830.45	$2,872.00 proj	—	41%	24%
Week	416.2		$4,891.74	$4,982.69	$40,446.00		25%

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.

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 $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	Hours	Cost
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$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 334.2 — 89% 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.
Who	Planned h	Actual h	Δh	Planned $	Actual $	Δ$	Jobs actually worked
Isabella Jacobson not rostered	0.0	24.5	+24.5	$0.00	$612.75	+613	Host 24.5h
Jose Cruz not rostered	0.0	16.8	+16.8	$0.00	$190.91	+191	Barback 16.8h
Juan not rostered	0.0	7.2	+7.2	$0.00	$136.04	+136	DISH/PORTER 7.2h
Sophie never clocked in	9.2	0.0	-9.2	$110.00	$0.00	-110	—
Angel	31.0	23.8	-7.2	$465.00	$357.60	-107	Barback 23.8h
Sophie ABREU not rostered	0.0	8.8	+8.8	$0.00	$105.60	+106	Bartender 8.8h
Jose never clocked in	9.0	0.0	-9.0	$102.15	$0.00	-102	—
Calum	26.3	34.4	+8.1	$316.00	$413.28	+97	Bartender 34.4h
Callie (LEAD SERVER)	25.8	30.7	+4.9	$439.17	$368.40	-71	Server 30.7h
Lidia	33.5	30.8	-2.7	$770.50	$707.48	-63	Line Cook 30.8h
Eissa	14.5	18.7	+4.2	$164.57	$211.79	+47	Server 18.7h
David	34.0	32.1	-1.9	$385.90	$364.10	-22	Barback 32.1h
Maddy	9.7	8.0	-1.7	$116.00	$95.52	-20	Bartender 8.0h
Gianna	16.3	14.6	-1.7	$196.00	$175.56	-20	Server 14.6h
Jenn (LEAD BAR)	30.2	31.4	+1.3	$512.83	$527.52	+15	Bar Lead 29.7h, Bar Prep 1.7h
Jorge	27.0	26.5	-0.5	$540.00	$530.60	-9	DISH/PORTER 26.5h
Teresa	26.2	25.9	-0.3	$296.99	$293.40	-4	Server 25.9h
Bryan never clocked in	22.0	0.0	-22.0	$0.00	$0.00	+0	—
Jhony never clocked in	37.5	0.0	-37.5	$0.00	$0.00	+0	—
Sara never clocked in	22.5	0.0	-22.5	$0.00	$0.00	+0	—
Total	374.7	334.2	-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 day	Share of sales	Share of labor	Hourly pay	Staff-hours
Before 5pm prep, deliveries, porters	1.8%	17.5%	$855.40	102	+16 pts more labor than revenue
5–7pm build doors open, room fills	18.8%	16.6%	$813.25	68	in proportion
7–10pm peak the money	55.5%	30.5%	$1,490.15	118	carries the week on 30% of labor
10pm–midnight late service	21.0%	19.0%	$929.12	70	in proportion
After midnight last call and breakdown	3.0%	16.4%	$803.84	57	+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.
Person	Days off	Asked on	Lead time	Status
Sophie R/O on the schedule sheet — ask date not recorded	2026-09-12 – 2026-09-13	—	not recorded	approved
Katherine "Kiki" R/O across the full week on the schedule sheet — ask date not recorded	2026-09-08 – 2026-09-13	—	not recorded	approved
Katherine "Kiki" R/O on this week's schedule sheet — ask date not recorded	2026-09-05 – 2026-09-06	—	not recorded	approved

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.
Track	What decides the amount	Wages	Employer tax	Fully loaded	Share
Hourly	punched so far + scheduled for the rest of the week	$5,567.20	$0.00	$5,567.20	53%
Salary	flat weekly amounts, whatever the hours	$4,482.69	$0.00	$4,482.69	42%
1099 / contractor	flat weekly vendor cost — no employer payroll tax	$500.00	none owed	$500.00	5%
Total	at 0.0% employer burden on W-2 wages	$10,549.89	$0.00	$10,549.89	100%

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.

Who	Department	Weekly salary	Hours	Effective $/h	Over 40	On the shift grid
GM	Management	$2,307.69	none on file	—	—	no — payroll only
Brian Ramirez	Kitchen	$1,200.00	27.0 scheduled hours	$44.44	—	yes — scheduled shifts, flat cost
Jhony Andrade	Dish / Porter	$975.00	47.5 scheduled hours	$20.53	7.5 h · $76.99 of overtime not owed	yes — scheduled shifts, flat cost
Total		$4,482.69	74.5		$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.
Who	Department	Rate	Scheduled h	Clocked h	Scheduled cost	Clocked cost
Lidia Tian	Kitchen	$23.00	44.0	30.8	$1,058.00	$707.48
Jorge Genaro	Dish / Porter	$20.00	27.0	26.5	$540.00	$530.60
Jennifer Huynh	Bartenders	$17.00 clocks $13.00, $17.00	30.2	31.4	$512.83	$527.52
Angel Morel on the floor now	Barbacks	$15.00	31.0	23.8	$465.00	$357.60
Callie Spears	Servers	$17.00 clocks $12.00	25.8	30.7	$439.17	$368.40
David DeBiasi	Barbacks	$11.35	34.0	32.1	$385.90	$364.10
Calum Powers	Bartenders	$12.00	26.3	34.4	$316.00	$413.28
Teresa Van Beek	Servers	$11.35	26.2	25.9	$296.99	$293.40
Eisa Bush	Servers	$11.35	23.5	18.7	$266.72	$211.79
Gianna Cooper	Servers	$12.00	16.3	14.6	$196.00	$175.56
Tomas Calel Sente	Dish / Porter	$19.00	7.0	0.0	$133.00	$0.00
Madeline Marquis Samid	Bartenders	$12.00	9.7	8.0	$116.00	$95.52
Sophia Abreu	Bartenders	$12.00	9.2	0.0	$110.00	$0.00
Jose	Barbacks	$11.35	9.0	0.0	$102.15	$0.00
Total			319.2	334.2	$4,937.76	$4,045.25

Clocked in without being on this week's schedule

$1,045.30 across 4 people and 57.3 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 name	Department	Clocked h	Clocked cost	Paid at	On the roster
Isabella Jacobson	—	24.5	$612.75	$25.00	no record
Jose Cruz	—	16.8	$190.91	$11.35	no record
Juan Carlos Calel Sente	Dish / Porter	7.2	$136.04	$19.00	yes
Sophie ABREU	—	8.8	$105.60	$12.00	no record

1099 — flat vendor cost, no employer tax

Who	Role	Weekly	Why it sits apart
Sara	Host	$500.00	Paid 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.

Who	Worked	Still scheduled	Projected week	Premium at stake
Lidia Tian	30.8	10.5	41.3	$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.

Step	Why it is there	Amount	% of sales
What Toast's Labor cost screen shows	hourly wages on approved punches — Toast's own figure	$4,869.15	12.0%
+ Shifts Toast auto-closed and is not costing	hours it invented at a fixed clock-out time, still worked against real wages	$221.40	12.6%
+ Rest of the week, still scheduled	days that have not been worked yet, priced from the schedule	$476.65	13.8%
+ Salaries — nobody clocks a salary	flat weekly pay Toast's labor screen cannot see	$4,482.69	24.8%
+ 1099 contractor	a real weekly labor bill, outside payroll entirely	$500.00	26.1%
What labor actually cost	every dollar the business paid for people this week	$10,549.89	26.1%

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.

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.

Line	Per month	% of sales	What it is
Net sales	$137,060.23	100.0%	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	$102,411.06	74.7%	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	$34,149.64	24.9%	what the business actually kept

How the daily break-even is built — the arithmetic, step by step

How the daily number is built

Step	Value	Why
Cost of goods	26.5% of sales	every dollar sold carries this before anything else
Hourly labor	17.9% of sales	the part of labor that moves with the schedule
Contribution margin	55.7%	what each dollar of sales leaves behind to pay fixed cost
Fixed cost, non-labor	$49,854.79 / mo	rent, utilities, insurance, subscriptions — arrives empty or full
Fixed cost, labor	$24,007.62 / mo	salaries 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.
Category	Behaves	Per month	% of sales	Vendors
Liquor	variable	$18,210.68	13.3%	10
Rent & occupancy	fixed	$12,127.88	8.8%	1
Food	variable	$11,378.15	8.3%	6
Wine	variable	$3,900.20	2.8%	6
Advertising	fixed	$2,504.92	1.8%	5
Electricity	fixed	$2,291.88	1.7%	1
Marketing	fixed	$2,016.94	1.5%	3
Cleaning supplies	fixed	$1,968.17	1.4%	2
Subscriptions & software	fixed	$1,710.95	1.2%	9
Paper supplies	fixed	$1,625.70	1.2%	3
Accounting	fixed	$1,502.62	1.1%	1
Insurance	fixed	$1,443.61	1.1%	1
Palillo — purpose unknown provisional	fixed	$1,247.38	0.9%	1
Glassware	fixed	$951.00	0.7%	3
Equipment rental	fixed	$942.90	0.7%	2
BOH supplies	fixed	$834.26	0.6%	6
Waste removal	fixed	$696.80	0.5%	1
Other beverage	variable	$670.35	0.5%	8
Beer	variable	$489.78	0.4%	2
Disability & PFL insurance provisional	fixed	$467.27	0.3%	1
Repairs — equipment	fixed	$456.09	0.3%	4
Security & alarm	fixed	$448.29	0.3%	2
Photography & printing	fixed	$391.94	0.3%	3
Office supplies	fixed	$305.23	0.2%	11
FOH supplies	fixed	$269.47	0.2%	5
Telephone & internet	fixed	$247.24	0.2%	2
Legal	fixed	$225.00	0.2%	1
Linen & laundry	fixed	$208.84	0.2%	1
Pest control	fixed	$154.67	0.1%	2
Travel & entertainment	fixed	$117.01	0.1%	3
Flowers & decor	fixed	$76.66	0.1%	2
Maintenance	fixed	$62.50	0.0%	1
Social media & events provisional	fixed	$62.50	0.0%	1
Other expenses	fixed	$43.59	0.0%	1
Repairs — general	fixed	$37.69	0.0%	1
Meals & entertainment	fixed	$8.08	0.0%	1
General & admin	fixed	$1.92	0.0%	1
Other operating	fixed	$1.84	0.0%	1
Unclassified	fixed	-$26.47	0.0%	1
Total non-labor		$70,073.53	51.1%	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.
Vendor	What for	Per month	Avg bill	Bills	Cadence
DOUGLAS ELLIMAN PM	Rent & occupancy	$12,127.88	$4,410.14	22	every month
SOUTHERN GLAZER'S OF NY METRO	Liquor	$11,606.14	$2,264.61	41	every month
Baldor Foods	Food	$10,789.18	$461.57	187	every month
Union Beer Distributors	Liquor	$3,224.09	$396.81	65	every month
Fruit of the Vin	Wine	$3,144.83	$599.01	42	every month
Empire Merchants	Liquor	$3,021.41	$863.26	28	every month
CON EDISON	Electricity	$2,291.88	$2,619.29	7	every month
TO RISE LLC	Paper supplies	$1,799.01	$257.00	56	every 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.

Frank W. Palillo → Palillo — 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.
Shelter Point → Disability & 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.
Erica Levy → Social 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.

Expense	Behaves	Per month	Per open day	Where it comes from
Cost of goods	variable	$34,649.17	$1,332.66	26.5% of sales — liquor, wine, beer, food
Hourly labor	variable	$8,829.44	$339.59	17.9% of sales — the part a schedule moves
Salaries and 1099	fixed	$24,007.62	$923.37	flat every week, whatever the hours
Rent and occupancy	fixed	$12,127.88	$466.46	the largest single fixed bill
Utilities	fixed	$2,987.41	$114.90	electric, phone, alarm
Everything else	fixed	$20,309.08	$781.12	supplies, marketing, insurance, professional fees, subscriptions
Everything		$102,910.60	$3,958.10	at $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.

Day	Typical sales	Needs	Gap	Verdict
Tue	$2,167.50	$5,104.04	-$2,936.54	does not cover itself
Wed	$3,010.25	$5,104.04	-$2,093.79	does not cover itself
Thu	$4,256.00	$5,104.04	-$848.04	does not cover itself
Fri	$9,641.25	$5,104.04	+$4,537.21	clears it, and carries part of another day
Sat	$9,342.50	$5,104.04	+$4,238.46	clears it, and carries part of another day
Sun	$2,872.00	$5,104.04	-$2,232.04	does 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 changed	Break-even per day becomes	Change	What it would take
Cost of goods improves 2 points	$4,926.92	-$177.12	pour cost from 26.5% to 24.5% — pricing, portioning or supplier terms
Hourly labor comes down 3 points	$4,842.93	-$261.11	the schedule, not the wage — sector 2 shows which hours are reachable
Rent were 10% lower	$5,020.15	-$83.89	a renegotiation, not an operating decision
One more open day a week	$5,103.96	-$0.08	same 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:

Capital spending. Leasehold improvements and furniture are in the ledger and deliberately excluded — they are investment, not the cost of opening the doors.
Income tax. Break-even here is profit before tax.
Anything not yet in the accounts. The ledger runs to 2026-08-14. A bill that has not been entered cannot be counted.
$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

Month	Net sales	Per order	Per guest	Per open day	Guests / day
2026-01	$38,107.87	$254.05	$68.17	$7,621.57	112
2026-06	$137,532.50	$94.14	$47.85	$5,979.67	125
2026-07	$118,064.50	$66.03	$37.78	$5,133.24	136
2026-08	$144,609.00	$92.94	$41.33	$6,025.38	146

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

Depreciation. $3,811.38 of capital spend sits outside the P&L with no schedule to spread it.
Debt. The ledger shows no loan payments. If any exist outside this account, EBITDA and profit are overstated.
Cash. Transactions are recorded, balances are not — profitable and out of cash look identical here.
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

−$36,201

−$35,888

▲ $313 vs P1 — sales up $27,143, payroll up $9,908

−$12,554

▲ $23,333 vs P2 — product cost cut $12,231, other operating costs cut $6,837

+$5,329

▲ $17,883 vs P3 — payroll cut $12,160, sales up $8,757

+$14,165

▲ $8,836 vs P4 — product cost cut $12,527, sales down $8,227

+$295

▼ $13,870 vs P5 — product cost up $18,723, sales up $5,006

−$5,614

▼ $5,909 vs P6 — sales down $34,732, product cost cut $21,202

−$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 The business earns 24.9% at the operating line. The lever is the same one everywhere else on this page: prime cost at 49.2% against a ~60% bar. Close a third of that gap and EBITDA roughly triples.

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. 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.
Who	Team	Checks	Revenue rung	Median check	Best night	ZBiotics	Thank-yous
Callie Spears	Servers	282	$24,378.50	$76.50	Fri $92.42/check	6	11
Teresa Van Beek	Servers	241	$18,785.00	$60.00	Thu $83.19/check	9	8
Gianna Cooper	Servers	211	$18,421.00	$78.00	Wed $89.07/check	16	46
Eisa Bush	Servers	218	$17,200.00	$57.00	Thu $96.32/check	6	3
Katherine Dyball	Servers	113	$9,464.00	$72.00	Thu $95.39/check	1	11
Calum Powers	Bartenders	176	$7,677.00	$40.00	Thu $57.34/check	6	14
Jennifer Huynh	Bartenders	161	$6,360.50	$38.00	Thu $44.31/check	4	11
Madeline Marquis Samid	Bartenders	97	$4,208.00	$39.00	Wed $49.04/check	1	18
Angel Morel	Barbacks	17	$719.00	$15.00	Sun $102.40/check	—	6
Jorge Genaro	Dish / Porter	1	$39.00	$39.00	—	—	—
David DeBiasi	Barbacks	1	$9.00	$9.00	—	—	—

The playbook — the research this sector runs on, and how each finding is used here

Finding	Source	How 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 Service	The 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.

Reason	Items
Comp	57
Server Error	29
Error	18
Customer Changed Mind	8
Recovery	5
86ed	3
Testing/Training	1
Dissatisfy	1
This week	122
Last week, for scale	94

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.
Date	Item	Qty	Reason	Rung by
09-12	Mineral Water	1	Comp	Callie Spears
09-12	Prosecco / Terre del Trebbia	2	Comp	Callie Spears
09-12	Sparkling Water	1	Comp	Callie Spears
09-12	Cocktail	1	Comp	Callie Spears
09-12	Sparkling Water	1	Comp	Callie Spears
09-12	Laelia	3	Comp	Callie Spears
09-12	IPA - GRIMM	1	Comp	Eisa Bush
09-12	Tanqueray	1	Customer Changed Mind	Eisa Bush
09-12	La Cabra Espresso	1	Customer Changed Mind	Eisa Bush
09-12	Thank you	1	Error	Callie Spears
09-12	Purple Lychee	1	Comp	Callie Spears
09-12	ZbioticZ	2	Comp	Callie Spears
09-12	Matcha - Tini	1	Comp	Callie Spears
09-12	Old Bay Fries	1	Comp	Callie Spears
09-12	Honey Whipped Ricotta	1	Comp	Callie Spears
09-12	Matcha - Tini	1	Error	Eisa Bush
09-12	La Cabra Espresso	2	Error	Calum Powers
09-12	Purple Lychee	1	Error	Calum Powers
09-12	BTL - Litote Saint Joseph 2023	1	Customer Changed Mind	Eisa Bush
09-12	Pornstar Martini	1	Error	Calum Powers
09-12	Nolet's Dry Gin	1	Testing/Training	Jennifer Huynh
09-12	Honey Whipped Ricotta	1	Recovery	Callie Spears
09-12	S O C K S	1	Error	Calum Powers
09-12	La Cabra Espresso	1	Error	Calum Powers
09-12	Matcha - Tini	1	Comp	Callie Spears
09-12	Pornstar Martini	1	Comp	Callie Spears
09-12	Purple Lychee	1	Comp	Callie Spears
09-12	Laelia	2	Comp	Callie Spears
09-12	APLOS World (non alc)	1	Comp	Callie Spears
09-12	Blossom	1	Comp	Callie Spears
09-12	Guacamole	1	Dissatisfy	Teresa Van Beek
09-12	Matcha - Tini	1	Customer Changed Mind	Teresa Van Beek
09-12	La Cabra Espresso	1	Error	Teresa Van Beek
09-12	Purple Lychee	1	Error	Teresa Van Beek
09-12	Ketel One	1	Comp	Callie Spears
09-12	Mentor X (non alc)	1	Comp	Callie Spears
09-12	Chicken Tenders	1	Error	Teresa Van Beek
09-12	S O C K S	1	Error	Teresa Van Beek
09-12	Hendricks	1	Error	Jennifer Huynh
09-12	Bheeyo Orange	1	Server Error	Eisa Bush
09-11	S O C K S	1	Server Error	Jennifer Huynh
09-11	Negroni	1	Server Error	Jennifer Huynh
09-11	Matcha - Tini	1	Server Error	Jennifer Huynh
09-11	La Cabra Espresso	1	Server Error	Jennifer Huynh
09-11	818 Reposado	1	Server Error	Jennifer Huynh
09-11	Matcha - Tini	1	Server Error	Jennifer Huynh
09-11	Matcha - Tini	1	Server Error	Jennifer Huynh
09-11	818 Reposado	1	Server Error	Jennifer Huynh
09-11	Spring 44	1	Server Error	Jennifer Huynh
09-11	Matcha - Tini	1	Server Error	Jennifer Huynh
09-11	Pornstar Martini	1	Server Error	Jennifer Huynh
09-11	Matcha - Tini	1	Server Error	Jennifer Huynh
09-11	818 Reposado	1	Server Error	Jennifer Huynh
09-11	818 Reposado	1	Server Error	Jennifer Huynh
09-11	Grey Goose	1	Server Error	Jennifer Huynh
09-11	818 Reposado	1	Server Error	Jennifer Huynh
09-11	La Cabra Espresso	1	Server Error	Jennifer Huynh
09-11	Matcha - Tini	1	Server Error	Jennifer Huynh
09-11	818 Reposado	1	Server Error	Jennifer Huynh
09-11	Pornstar Martini	1	Server Error	Jennifer Huynh
09-11	Spring 44	1	Server Error	Jennifer Huynh
09-11	818 Reposado	1	Server Error	Jennifer Huynh
09-11	ACGT Negroni	2	Comp	Teresa Van Beek
09-11	APLOS World (non alc)	2	Comp	Teresa Van Beek
09-11	Building On Fashion	1	Comp	Teresa Van Beek
09-11	Negroni	1	Comp	Teresa Van Beek
09-11	Margarita	3	Comp	Teresa Van Beek
09-11	Negroni	2	Comp	Teresa Van Beek
09-11	S O C K S	1	Comp	Teresa Van Beek
09-11	Pornstar Martini	1	Comp	Teresa Van Beek
09-11	S O C K S	1	Server Error	Sophie ABREU
09-11	Manhattan	1	Server Error	Sophie ABREU
09-11	S O C K S	1	Server Error	Sophie ABREU
09-11	Purple Lychee	2	Server Error	Teresa Van Beek
09-11	APLOS World (non alc)	1	Comp	Gianna Cooper
09-11	S O C K S	1	Comp	Gianna Cooper
09-11	La Cabra Espresso	1	Customer Changed Mind	Callie Spears
09-11	Thank You Charge	1	Customer Changed Mind	Jennifer Huynh
09-11	Matcha - Tini	1	Customer Changed Mind	Teresa Van Beek
09-11	Laelia	1	Recovery	Teresa Van Beek
09-11	La Cabra Espresso	1	Recovery	Teresa Van Beek
09-11	Tito's	2	Recovery	Teresa Van Beek
09-11	Bombay Sapphire	1	Recovery	Teresa Van Beek
09-11	Spring 44	1	Comp	Gianna Cooper
09-11	Grey Goose	1	Comp	Gianna Cooper
09-11	Mezcal Union	1	Comp	Gianna Cooper
09-11	BTL Prosecco / Terre del Trebbia	1	Comp	Gianna Cooper
09-11	ZbioticZ	1	Comp	Gianna Cooper
09-11	ZbioticZ	1	Comp	Gianna Cooper
09-11	Thank You Charge	1	Comp	Callie Spears
09-11	IPA - GRIMM	1	Error	Gianna Cooper
09-11	Mini Burger Slider	2	Comp	Callie Spears
09-11	Chicken Tenders	1	Comp	Callie Spears
09-11	Honey Whipped Ricotta	1	Comp	Callie Spears
09-11	Blossom	1	Customer Changed Mind	Sophie ABREU
09-11	Amaro Nonino	1	Server Error	Gianna Cooper
09-10	Prosecco / Terre del Trebbia	2	Error	Calum Powers
09-10	Grey Goose	4	Comp	Callie Spears
09-10	Laelia	4	Comp	Callie Spears
09-10	Pilsner - POLISHED	2	Comp	Callie Spears
09-10	Patron Silver	1	Comp	Jennifer Huynh
09-10	Don Julio Reposado	1	Error	Eisa Bush
09-10	Rosé	1	Error	Eisa Bush
09-10	Coke	1	Comp	Eisa Bush
09-10	Brunello	1	Comp	Eisa Bush
09-10	Brunello	1	Comp	Eisa Bush
09-10	Manhattan	1	Comp	Eisa Bush
09-10	Building On Fashion	1	Comp	Eisa Bush
09-10	Manhattan	1	Error	Calum Powers
09-10	French 75	1	Comp	Callie Spears
09-10	Diet Coke	1	Error	Jennifer Huynh
09-10	Shrimp Tacos	1	Comp	Eisa Bush
09-10	ACGT Negroni	1	Server Error	Eisa Bush
09-10	Burger	1	Comp	Jennifer Huynh
09-10	Cocktail	1	86ed	Jennifer Huynh
09-10	S O C K S	1	86ed	Calum Powers
09-09	Oban 14 Single Malt	3	Comp	Gianna Cooper
09-09	Matcha - Tini	1	Comp	Gianna Cooper
09-09	Sparkling Water	1	Comp	Gianna Cooper
09-09	Oban 14 Single Malt	1	Comp	Gianna Cooper
09-09	APLOS World (non alc)	1	Comp	Gianna Cooper
09-09	Sparkling Water	1	86ed	Gianna Cooper
09-06	Macallan 12	1	Server Error	Sophie ABREU
09-05	Matcha - Tini	4	Comp	Calum Powers
09-05	Ketel One	1	Comp	Calum Powers
09-05	Laelia	2	Comp	Calum Powers
09-05	Matcha - Tini	1	Comp	Calum Powers
09-05	Tito's	2	Comp	Calum Powers
09-05	Laphroaig Oak Select	1	Comp	Calum Powers
09-05	Burger	1	Server Error	David DeBiasi
09-05	Negroni	1	Comp	Callie Spears
09-05	Cocktail	1	Testing/Training	Jennifer Huynh
09-05	Blossom	1	Error	Calum Powers
09-05	Bombay Sapphire	1	Comp	Calum Powers
09-05	La Cabra Espresso	2	Comp	Calum Powers
09-05	Cosmopolitan	1	Mininum Spend Record Charge	Jennifer Huynh
09-05	Blossom	1	Mininum Spend Record Charge	Jennifer Huynh
09-05	La Cabra Espresso	2	Mininum Spend Record Charge	Jennifer Huynh
09-05	Tito's	2	Mininum Spend Record Charge	Jennifer Huynh
09-05	Tito's	1	Mininum Spend Record Charge	Jennifer Huynh
09-05	Blossom	1	Mininum Spend Record Charge	Jennifer Huynh
09-05	Pornstar Martini	1	Mininum Spend Record Charge	Jennifer Huynh
09-05	Margarita	1	Mininum Spend Record Charge	Jennifer Huynh
09-05	Cocktail	1	Mininum Spend Record Charge	Jennifer Huynh
09-05	Blossom	1	Mininum Spend Record Charge	Jennifer Huynh
09-05	Cosmopolitan	1	Mininum Spend Record Charge	Jennifer Huynh
09-05	Tito's	3	Mininum Spend Record Charge	Jennifer Huynh
09-05	Tito's	4	Mininum Spend Record Charge	Jennifer Huynh
09-05	Rosé	2	Mininum Spend Record Charge	Jennifer Huynh
09-05	Laelia	1	Mininum Spend Record Charge	Jennifer Huynh
09-05	Sancerre	1	Mininum Spend Record Charge	Jennifer Huynh
09-05	La Cabra Espresso	2	Mininum Spend Record Charge	Jennifer Huynh
09-05	Pornstar Martini	1	Mininum Spend Record Charge	Jennifer Huynh
09-05	Shots	7	Mininum Spend Record Charge	Jennifer Huynh
09-05	Laelia	1	Mininum Spend Record Charge	Jennifer Huynh
09-05	Pornstar Martini	1	Mininum Spend Record Charge	Jennifer Huynh
09-05	Laelia	1	Mininum Spend Record Charge	Jennifer Huynh
09-05	Tito's	3	Mininum Spend Record Charge	Jennifer Huynh
09-05	Cocktail	1	Mininum Spend Record Charge	Jennifer Huynh
09-05	Litote - Saint Joseph 2023	1	Error	Callie Spears
09-05	Matcha - Tini	1	Comp	Management
09-05	S O C K S	1	Comp	Management
09-05	ZbioticZ	1	Comp	Jennifer Huynh
09-05	Frose Marg - Happy Hour	1	Error	Eisa Bush
09-05	S O C K S	1	Server Error	Callie Spears
09-05	Pigs in a Blanket	1	86ed	Teresa Van Beek
09-05	Pinot Noir Melon 2022	1	Comp	Calum Powers
09-05	Aperol Spritz	1	Comp	Calum Powers
09-05	Tanqueray	1	Comp	Eisa Bush
09-05	Building On Fashion	1	Comp	Eisa Bush
09-05	S O C K S	1	Error	Sophie ABREU
09-05	S O C K S	1	Mininum Spend Record Charge	Teresa Van Beek
09-05	Blossom	1	Mininum Spend Record Charge	Teresa Van Beek
09-05	Matcha - Tini	1	Mininum Spend Record Charge	Teresa Van Beek
09-05	Blossom	1	Comp	Teresa Van Beek
09-05	La Cabra Espresso	2	Comp	Teresa Van Beek
09-05	Matcha - Tini	1	Comp	Teresa Van Beek
09-05	Sancerre	1	Comp	Teresa Van Beek
09-05	S O C K S	1	Comp	Teresa Van Beek
09-04	Burger	2	Comp	Management
09-04	S O C K S	1	Comp	Katherine Dyball
09-04	Pornstar Martini	1	Error	Jennifer Huynh
09-04	Pornstar Martini	1	Error	Jennifer Huynh
09-04	Hugo Spritz	1	Error	Gianna Cooper
09-04	Aperol Spritz	1	Error	Gianna Cooper
09-04	La Cabra Espresso	1	Error	Katherine Dyball
09-04	Shots	1	Error	Jennifer Huynh
09-04	ZbioticZ	1	Comp	Jennifer Huynh
09-04	Negroni	1	Comp	Jennifer Huynh
09-04	Pornstar Martini	1	Comp	Katherine Dyball
09-04	Pornstar Martini	1	Comp	Katherine Dyball
09-04	ZbioticZ	1	Comp	Jennifer Huynh
09-04	ZbioticZ	1	Comp	Jennifer Huynh
09-04	ACGT Negroni	1	Comp	Gianna Cooper
09-04	ZbioticZ	1	Comp	Jennifer Huynh
09-04	Honey Whipped Ricotta	1	Error	Katherine Dyball
09-04	Guacamole	1	Error	Katherine Dyball
09-04	Pigs in a Blanket	1	86ed	Gianna Cooper
09-04	Pigs in a Blanket	1	86ed	Callie Spears
09-04	Burger	1	86ed	Callie Spears
09-04	Pita	1	Comp	Callie Spears
09-03	S O C K S	1	Error	Katherine Dyball
09-03	Purple Lychee	1	Error	Katherine Dyball
09-03	Paloma	2	Error	Katherine Dyball
09-03	Bombay Sapphire	1	Error	Katherine Dyball
09-03	Pornstar Martini	1	Error	Katherine Dyball
09-03	Pornstar Martini	1	Error	Katherine Dyball
09-03	Matcha - Tini	1	Error	Katherine Dyball
09-03	Purple Lychee	1	Error	Katherine Dyball
09-03	APLOS World (non alc)	1	Error	Katherine Dyball
09-03	Tito's	1	Comp	Katherine Dyball
09-03	ZbioticZ	1	Comp	Jennifer Huynh
09-03	ZbioticZ	1	Comp	Jennifer Huynh
09-03	ZbioticZ	1	Comp	Jennifer Huynh
09-02	Spring 44	6	Comp	Madeline Marquis Samid
09-01	La Cabra Espresso	1	Comp	Calum 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$37,954estimate: cost × the bar’s measured 1.9× markup (sales ÷ product cost, ledger months)

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.
Category	On hand, at cost	Share of value	Below par	Cost to par	Items	Bottles
Liqueurs & Amari	$5,856	29%	11	$575	38	214
Tequila	$3,239	16%	4	$574	20	57
Whiskey & Scotch	$3,165	16%	12	$613	33	51
Vodka	$2,287	11%	6	$761	14	85
Mezcal	$1,885	9%	3	$150	10	36
Wine	$1,557	8%	2	$148	14	101
Gin	$1,268	6%	5	$767	13	49
Beer	$355	2%	—	—	2	73
Non-alcoholic	$263	1%	—	—	1	9
Rum	$230	1%	4	$77	11	13
Water	$47	0%	—	—	2	19
All bar product	$20,152		47	$3,665	174	706

The buy list — below-par items, biggest gaps first

Item	Category	On hand	Par	Short	Cost to par
Empress gin Indigo	Gin	5.7	18	12.3	$409
818 reposado	Tequila	0	18	18	$396
Bombay sapphire	Gin	7	18	11	$316
Jack Daniel's single barrel bourbon	Whiskey & Scotch	0.5	6	5.5	$270
Haku	Vodka	7	18	11	$257
Fruitful passion fruit	Liqueurs & Amari	8.2	18	9.8	$191
Mujen 35%	Vodka	6	12	6	$174
Spring 44	Vodka	9.7	18	8.3	$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: Halloween — 48 days out (2026-10-31).

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.
Date	Day	Event	Weather	Projected sales	Same date last year
2026-09-14	Mon	NY Fashion Week, Sept edition (approx — confirm)	overcast, 73/58°F, 12% rain	no data	—
2026-09-15	Tue	NY Fashion Week, Sept edition (approx — confirm)	overcast, 74/52°F, 0% rain	$2,167.50	—
2026-09-16	Wed	NY Fashion Week, Sept edition (approx — confirm)	overcast, 79/66°F, 1% rain	$3,010.25	$1,156.00
2026-09-17	Thu	Feast of San Gennaro (approx — confirm)	drizzle, 83/70°F, 9% rain	$4,256.00	$3,795.01
2026-09-18	Fri	Feast of San Gennaro (approx — confirm)	drizzle, 78/68°F, 10% rain	$9,641.25	$2,688.02
2026-09-19	Sat	Feast of San Gennaro (approx — confirm)	overcast, 78/69°F, 22% rain	$9,342.50	$5,596.26
2026-09-20	Sun	Feast of San Gennaro (approx — confirm)	rain showers, 77/69°F, 27% rain	$2,872.00	$4,977.02
2026-09-21	Mon	Feast of San Gennaro (approx — confirm)	overcast, 72/60°F, 26% rain	no data	$474.00
2026-09-22	Tue		rain, 66/58°F, 24% rain	$2,167.50	—
2026-09-23	Wed		rain showers, 65/59°F, 25% rain	$3,010.25	$1,129.00
2026-09-24	Thu		overcast, 70/58°F, 19% rain	$4,256.00	$1,760.50
2026-09-25	Fri		partly cloudy, 70/60°F, 17% rain	$9,641.25	$6,724.00
2026-09-26	Sat		overcast, 63/55°F, 16% rain	$9,342.50	$7,518.00
2026-09-27	Sun		overcast, 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.
Event	Days out	Dates	Last year
Halloween	48d	2026-10-31	$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.	48d	2026-10-31	$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.	49d	2026-11-01	$5,636.01 (+96% vs a typical week of those days)
Thanksgiving / Black Friday	73d	2026-11-25 – 2026-11-27	no 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.	73d	2026-11-25	no 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.	90d	2026-12-12	$7,181.00 (-23% vs a typical week of those days)
Christmas Eve	102d	2026-12-24	$0.00 (-100% vs a typical week of those days)
Christmas Day	103d	2026-12-25	$0.00 (-100% vs a typical week of those days)
New Year's Eve	109d	2026-12-31	$6,372.08 (+50% vs a typical week of those days)
New Year's Day	110d	2027-01-01	$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 Halloween is 48 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

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.
Measure	Value	How it was calculated
Labor % — wages only	24.5%	$9,920.45 ÷ $40,446.00
Labor % — with employer tax	24.5%	$9,920.45 ÷ $40,446.00
Labor % — if cut times are ±30 min out	24.1% – 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	$0.245	wages ÷ 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.
Person	Department	Rate	Days	Printed h	Policy h	Total h	OT	Cost
Angel Morel	Barbacks	$15.00 blended	2	0.0	31.0	31.0	—	$465.00
David DeBiasi	Barbacks	$11.35 blended	3	0.0	34.0	34.0	—	$385.90
Jose	Barbacks	$11.35 blended	1	0.0	9.0	9.0	—	$102.15
Calum Powers	Bartenders	$12.00 blended	3	0.0	26.3	26.3	—	$316.00
Jennifer Huynh	Bartenders	$17.00 blended	4	0.0	30.2	30.2	—	$512.83
Madeline Marquis Samid	Bartenders	$12.00 blended	1	0.0	9.7	9.7	—	$116.00
Sophia Abreu	Bartenders	$12.00 blended	1	0.0	9.2	9.2	—	$110.00
Jhony Andrade	Dish / Porter	no rate	5	47.5	0.0	47.5	—	$975.00
Jorge Genaro	Dish / Porter	$20.00 blended	3	27.0	0.0	27.0	—	$540.00
Tomas Calel Sente	Dish / Porter	$19.00 blended	1	7.0	0.0	7.0	—	$133.00
Sara	HOST/FLOOR	no rate	3	22.5	0.0	22.5	—	$0.00
Brian Ramirez	Kitchen	no rate	4	27.0	0.0	27.0	—	$1,200.00
Lidia Tian	Kitchen	$23.00 blended	5	44.0	0.0	44.0	4.0	$1,058.00
Callie Spears	Servers	$17.00 blended	3	0.0	25.8	25.8	—	$439.17
Eisa Bush	Servers	$11.35 blended	3	9.0	14.5	23.5	—	$266.72
Gianna Cooper	Servers	$12.00 blended	2	0.0	16.3	16.3	—	$196.00
Teresa Van Beek	Servers	$11.35 blended	3	0.0	26.2	26.2	—	$296.99
Total				184.0	232.2	416.2	4.0	$4,937.76

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.

Jose — 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. DISAGREEMENT: in 2026-01-01 Toast paid 30.00 as Event - Kitchen; 22.00 as Line Cook. The roster says 23.00. Costed at the roster figure — confirm which is right.

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.

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: break-even is $5,104.04 an open day and the last full months cleared it by $34,149.64, 24.9% 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 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.

2 former staff named on old payroll registers are excluded from every figure on this page. They are listed by name in config/roster.json.

Built directly from the weekly schedule, Toast sales, Toast labor and Toast Payroll records. Nothing on this page is typed in by hand. Measured values and policy-derived values are never blended into one figure, and every headline number is recomputed a second, independent way and compared before the page is published.

Pay rates sourced from: roster.json; roster.json (1099 vendor); schedule_sheet:pay column.