How this is calculated, in the open. Four control pillars - cross-site reporting, transfer tracking, daily close, and named ownership - score 0, 10, or 20 points each, plus up to 20 points for how tight your food cost variance already is. That is your score out of 100.
The recoverable figure starts with your own number: 6% over plan on $60,000 of monthly spend is $3,600 a month over. Structure does not recover all of that, so it is multiplied by a recovery rate that scales with how much control is missing - 25% when the pillars are already tight, up to 70% when nothing is tracked. Yours works out to 63%. It is an estimate from your inputs, not a promise, and a real audit replaces it with counted numbers.
Your score names where control is missing. A free operations audit puts counted numbers behind it and gives you the fix order.
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Frequently asked questions
What is an Operational Control Score?
It is a 0-100 read on whether your operation is run by a system or by memory. Four pillars score 0, 10, or 20 points each - cross-site reporting, inventory transfer tracking, a standardized daily close, and a named owner per site for variance - plus up to 20 points for how tight your food cost variance already is.
How is the recoverable amount calculated?
It starts with your own numbers: your food cost variance over plan, applied to your monthly food and beverage spend, gives the dollars you are currently running over. Structure does not recover all of that, so it is multiplied by a recovery rate that scales with how much control is missing - 25% when the pillars are already tight, up to 70% when nothing is tracked. It is an estimate from your inputs, not a promise.
What is a good score?
80 and above means the control layer is doing its job and the remaining variance is mostly noise. 60 to 79 means the structure holds in places and slips in others. Below 60 means memory is running the floor rather than a system, and the pillars scoring zero are where the money leaves.
Why do transfers between sites matter so much?
Product moving between locations without a record is the most common silent leak in multi-site food operations. If a van leaves one kitchen and arrives at another with nothing logged, both sites' numbers are wrong, and the variance shows up a month later with no owner attached to it.