PulseCheck AI / 02 · MarginOps Leak Board
brand · The Cedar Room · last 28 days

cross-domain scan · 8 domains

Top five leaks for the trailing 28 days, ranked by recoverable dollars.

Each leak is sourced from your own historical baseline. Peer cohort is shown for context. NRA bands appear at the bottom of each card, never as the headline.

total leak · 28d
$24,810
8.1% of period revenue
recoverable next 30d
$17,420
if top 3 actions taken this week
confidence · weighted
0.82
sourced from 14 silver tables
labor
Overstaffed Thursday lunch · 9 weeks running
Two extra FOH bodies vs your own demand curve.
$5,840
conf · 0.91
your baseline
$0.92 labor per cover
last 28d Thu lunch
$1.41 labor per cover
peer cohort (context)
$0.97 · $1.18 · $0.84
recommended action

Cut one FOH from 11:00 to 13:00 Thursdays. Compare next 3 Thursdays to baseline. Reversible.

source · gold.fact_labor_hours · silver.dim_employee · 14 weeks · MCS confidence 0.91
food cost
Chicken yield drift · 11.4% below recipe spec
Theoretical 9oz portion landing at 8oz on plate.
$4,210
conf · 0.78
recipe
9.0 oz cooked
actual (purchase ÷ menu count)
7.97 oz inferred
peer cohort (context)
range -3% to -8%
recommended action

Weigh-test 20 portions across two services. If > 8.5oz average, recipe spec is the issue. If < 8.0oz, line-portioning drift.

source · silver.purchase_orders · silver.menu_item_sales · 28 days · evidence span 12 weeks
discounts
Comp ratio · 4.1% vs baseline 1.9%
Three servers account for 64% of comps.
$3,920
conf · 0.86
your baseline
1.9% of gross
last 28 days
4.1% of gross
peer cohort (context)
2.2% median
recommended action

Pull comp-by-server report for the three. Review reason codes. If "manager approval" missing on > 30%, retrain. If reasons valid, escalate to GM conversation.

source · silver.dim_employee · silver.order_adjustments · 28 days · MCS labor signal
menu mix
Promo drag · 2 items at 18% margin pushed top of menu
Promotional placement displacing 52%-margin items.
$2,640
conf · 0.72
Two LTO items (chicken sandwich, seasonal salad) currently sit position 1 and 3 on the menu app. Their margin sits at 18% and 22% respectively. They are displacing the steak frites and the burger (52% and 47% margin). Mix shift since promotional placement is 11 percentage points away from your trailing 12 weeks.
recommended action

Move LTOs to position 5 and 7. Track for 14 days. Reversible.

source · silver.menu_position_history · silver.menu_item_margins · 12 weeks
scheduling
Split-shift inefficiency · BOH idle 47 min/day
Prep cook scheduled 09:00-17:00 with no covers 11:30-12:15.
$1,810
conf · 0.69
Average daily idle window for the morning prep slot is 47 minutes, sustained over the last 28 days. Shifting the shift to 10:00-17:30 or splitting around the lunch peak reclaims most of the idle period.
recommended action

Test 10:00-17:30 schedule for two weeks. Confirm prep completion on time. Reversible.

source · silver.dim_employee · silver.sales_transactions · silver.timecards

8 domains scanned · platinum.margin_leak_daily

last 24h
labor
3 signals
food cost
2 signals
menu mix
1 signal
discounts
2 signals
pricing
0 signals
scheduling
1 signal
revenue capture
0 signals
compliance
0 signals

Quiet domains are scanned every 24h. Zero signals means no anomaly above 1.5σ from your own baseline. NRA reference bands available in the depth view.

Data hierarchy: personal baseline (primary) · peer cohort (context) · NRA (reference only). No alert in this view is triggered by NRA bands.