The menu is a portfolio. Price it like one.

Theoretical against actual

Recipes say what the GP should be; stocktakes say what it was. The gap between the two numbers — theft, waste, over-portioning, a lying recipe — is the most useful number in the building.

A stocktake with an identity

Counts are dated documents, not overwrites, so this month reconciles against last month and the variance has a history.

Supplier prices move; your margins move with them

Prices typed once or photographed off an invoice. When beef rises, every dish carrying beef shows its new margin the same day — and the honest ? marks any dish not yet costed rather than pretending.

86’d means 86’d everywhere

A dish switched off leaves the till, the QR page and the kiosk within seconds, and stays off until somebody says otherwise — with a morning reset rule so yesterday’s 86 does not survive the prep.