Benchmark Sixty · Labor Lever Check

Lower your labor cost. Without raising prices or cutting the schedule.

Five numbers. Two minutes. See how many guests each labor hour really serves, and what that is worth to you every year.

Your restaurant

MarketSets your estimated average wage

Concept

Annual revenue

Labor % of salesTotal hourly labor ÷ total sales

Avg spend per guest I don't know. Estimate it for me.

Avg hourly wage

Your number

Covers per labor hour–

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What it costs you–

Labor % = Avg wage ÷ (Covers per labor hour × Avg spend)

This is what most restaurants like yours look like

On track Off track

Each dot is one week's labor %. Shaded band: on-track range. Solid line: first-step target. Dashed line: where you are now. Slow weeks run hot because the schedule does not flex down with guests. Busy weeks look great and hide it.

But, this is what it could look like

On track Off track

Get your full Labor Lever report

The three levers that set your labor %, and the one you actually control
What every 0.1 covers per labor hour is worth to you each year
How many more guests your current schedule can serve

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Restaurant or group

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Your Labor Lever report

Guests a year

Labor hours a year

Labor cost a year

Three levers set your labor %

Market sets itAvg wage

You can't pay less than the market and keep good people.

Guests feel itAvg spend

Raising prices works until guests stop coming back.

You control itCovers per labor hour

Same people, same pay, same menu. Better deployed hours.

What each step is worth

Covers per labor hour	Labor %	Hours a year	Saved a year

No schedule cuts required

Target for your concept

Same schedule, more guests

Or same guests, hours moved

This is the 30,000-foot view

It tells you how big the gap is. It does not tell you where it is. The dollars are in the detail, and every restaurant hides them in a different place. Guess wrong and you cut the wrong shift, your guests feel it and the savings never show up.

Want to know where your hours are leaking?

Benchmark Sixty looks at your hours against guests by day and daypart. You get a 30-minute walk-through of where your schedule fits your guests and where it doesn't.

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