Do you know your prime cost? 

For decades, restaurants have been run with one key number in mind. This magic number ensures that the owners make money. It’s called prime cost. To old timers like me, it used to be called controllable expenses, in the control of management on a daily basis on how they hire, fire, schedule their team members to purchasing and utilizing products. 

Prime Cost = Total Cost of Goods Sold + Total Labor Cost

My goal is to teach anyone who is...

Hi restaurant friends! This is David Scott Peters, restaurant systems expert, speaker, trainer, coach and consultant. For the past 16 years, you've known me as the founder of TheRestaurantExpert.com and the creator or SMART Systems Pro, online restaurant management software.

After building the industry's best all-in-one restaurant operations software on the market, my business partner (who was a former member) and a group of current members (users of the software), got together to buy my...