UK restaurants · Margin decisions from your own numbers

Busy every night. Losing money every month. Which one are you?

Food invoices, labour and energy do not move at the same speed as menu prices. A restaurant can look busy while its margin slips month by month. Run the free Restaurant Profit Check on rough figures, use your own planning assumptions, and see the position in black and white.

Run the free Restaurant Profit Check Or try the Vitals Wheel
Your inputssupplier and energy scenarios from your own invoices
£12.71/hrNational Living Wage from April 2026 (+4.1%)
48 hoursfor the written Profit Triage Report after figures arrive

The Restaurant Profit Check

One check, at two levels of detail. Free, and you get the full reading without leaving an email.

  • Quick check. Four figures — sales, suppliers, payroll and everything else. Under a minute, and roughly right is fine.
  • A fuller picture, when you want one. Enter each cost line at the frequency you actually pay it: daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly or annual. Add any cost line your business carries.
  • What you get back. Monthly and annual figures, food, payroll and prime-cost shares, your largest cost pressures ranked from your own numbers, and a planning scenario for supplier, payroll and energy changes.
Run the free Restaurant Profit Check

An indicative planning tool that works from the figures you enter. It does not verify them against any record and does not produce an exact profit figure. Sector bands are indicative reference ranges, not targets.

An example of the reading the check produces. Your own figures will differ.

Where this sits

Between the software you won't set up and the consultant you won't pay £2,000 for.

Costing software

~£129/month, per site
  • Powerful — once every invoice and recipe is loaded
  • Weeks of setup and ongoing admin
  • Tells you the numbers; doesn't tell you what to do

MyProfit written diagnostic

£95 + VAT fixed · 48 hours · from rough data
  • Send what you have — bank app screenshots, supplier invoices, a scribbled summary
  • A written verdict: where the margin is leaking, in £ per month
  • The three changes to make first, and what each is worth

On-site consultant

£75–£350/hour · ~£2,000 typical project
  • Excellent for full turnarounds
  • Needs site visits, meetings, weeks of engagement
  • Ten times the price of a written diagnosis
Engagements

Two ways to stop guessing

Tier 1 · Written triage

48-Hour Profit Triage Report

£95 + VAT
  • Send rough monthly figures — any format, no software, no call
  • Written report inside 48 hours: your true margin position
  • Where the leak is biggest, in £ per month
  • A 12-month planning scenario with every assumption written down
  • The first three fixes, ranked by what each is worth
  • Credited in full against the Diagnostic within 30 days
Commission the Triage — £95 + VAT

£95 + VAT is the paid first step, not a cut-down consultancy fee. It is credited in full against the £395 + VAT Diagnostic within 30 days.

Reviewed by the Food & Trade Economist. Written economic analysis, not software output.

Delivered within 48 hours of receiving your figures

Tier 2 · Full engagement

Menu & Margin Diagnostic

£395 + VAT fixed fee
  • Everything in the Triage, plus your menu costed line by line
  • Dish-level margin map from your supplier invoices
  • Price pass-through plan: what to raise, by how much, and what to leave
  • Portion, waste and supplier negotiation points, costed
  • 12-month margin forecast under agreed planning scenarios
  • Written, board-and-bank-ready; 30 minutes of written Q&A after delivery
Commission the Diagnostic — £395 + VAT Prefer to talk it through? Book a prepared call

Built from your figures, supplier lines and menu structure. No software, supplier or broker commission is taken.

Delivered within 7 working days of receiving your data

Prepared call booking

A sharper conversation because the numbers are read first

MyProfit stays written-first. If a call will help, send the facts before booking; the analyst reviews the pressure points and uses the 15-minute call to talk through the decision, not to collect basics.

How the call works

The best result is still the written triage or diagnostic. The call is there when you want the prepared analysis talked through.

  1. Send the restaurant context and what you need decided.
  2. Choose one available 15-minute UK-time slot.
  3. You receive an email confirmation with a calendar file.
  4. If paid work is needed, checkout stays through the VAT-enabled Stripe links already shown above.

Book a prepared MyProfit call

Choose a UK-time slot

Proof of work

See what the £95 + VAT report actually looks for before you buy.

Worked example report

A full worked example of the 48-hour report: margin position, a planning scenario with every assumption written down, one dish costed line by line, and the first three actions in pounds. The business is invented; every figure in it reconciles.

  • Prime-cost pressure shown as food plus labour, not just headline profit.
  • Standstill price-rise estimate so the owner sees the real gap.
  • Three ranked fixes, each tied to monthly cash impact.
View the worked example

What the report is designed to reveal

This desk does not publish client outcomes without recorded permission, and does not manufacture them. The proof offered instead is a worked example in which every figure can be checked against the assumptions it came from. These are the pressure points the written report tests.

  • Supplier lines rising faster than menu prices.
  • Labour-heavy shifts that look busy but erase margin.
  • Delivery/platform sales that grow revenue while weakening net result.
  • One or two menu items carrying a hidden monthly leak.

A named client outcome appears here only after the work has been delivered and written permission recorded. Until then the worked example does the arguing, because it can be audited and a testimonial cannot.

For advisers, suppliers & finance teams

Your restaurant clients are in the squeeze. Hand them a lifeline with your name on it.

Refer a client and earn £50 per paid Diagnostic — or white-label the report under your own letterhead at a trade rate. Everything is handled in writing; your client relationship stays yours.

Use the sample report as the opener: send it to restaurant clients who are busy but cash-tight, then refer the ones who need a written margin check before the next cost rise lands.

Enquire as a partner

A dedicated partner page can be added after the EPR-first test path is complete.

Method & analyst

Food economics, applied to one restaurant at a time: yours

Every diagnosis starts from your actual figures — takings, supplier invoices, wage bills — however rough. The analysis uses cost incidence, margin mapping, scenario stress-testing from your own planning assumptions, and price pass-through that protects covers rather than scaring them off.

This desk sells no software subscription, no EPOS, no supplier contracts, and takes no commissions from anyone it might recommend. The only product is a written, independent answer.

Everything is handled in writing. No site visits, no sales calls — unless you ask.

Godfred Frimpong
Food & Trade Economist

I apply the same cost discipline used to model statutory costs for food manufacturers to one restaurant at a time: yours. The goal is a clear written answer on where your margin leaks and what to fix first — not jargon, not software you'll never set up.

  • MSc Food Economics & Marketing, University of Reading
  • 30+ years in financial management and cost analysis
  • Specialist in restaurant margin and statutory cost modelling
  • Independent — no software, scheme or supplier affiliations
Questions

Asked before commissioning

My books are a mess. Can you still help?

Yes — that's the normal case, not the exception. Bank app screenshots, a folder of supplier invoices and your till summary are enough for the Triage. Part of the job is turning a mess into figures you can act on.

Is this a filing or records service?

No. This is independent economic analysis of your costs and margins. It works alongside your existing advisers — the report is written so you can hand it straight to them, or to your bank.

How is £95 + VAT enough to be serious?

Because it's a written triage, not a turnaround project. It finds the leak and prices the fixes. If your situation needs the deeper menu-level work, the £95 + VAT is credited in full against the £395 + VAT Diagnostic — so the triage costs nothing if you proceed.

Will you try to sell me software or suppliers?

No. The desk is independent by design: no subscriptions, no affiliate commissions, no supplier deals. If software would genuinely help you, the report says so and names neutral options — that's all.

Prefer to start with a question?

Everything is handled in writing. Send a message and you will get a written reply, usually within one working day.

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