Analytics for Restaurant & Café Owners: Use Data, AI, and Proven Business Metrics to Increase Sales, Reduce Costs, Improve Customer Loyalty, and Build (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798188527198)

Running a successful restaurant isn't just about serving great food-it's about making better business decisions every single day.

Whether you own a neighborhood café, an independent restaurant, a coffee shop, bakery, or a growing restaurant group, your business already generates valuable data. Sales, food costs, labor, customer reviews, menu performance, inventory, loyalty, and marketing all contain insights that can dramatically improve profitability-if you know how to use them.

Analytics for Restaurant & Café Owners is a practical, step-by-step guide that shows restaurant operators how to transform everyday business data into smarter decisions without requiring advanced mathematics, coding, or expensive software.

Built around real restaurant examples from North America and Europe, this guide combines proven management techniques with modern AI tools, practical dashboards, and real-world case studies to help you run a more profitable business.

• Daily restaurant KPIs
• Prime Cost
• Food Cost %
• Labor Cost %
• Average Check
• RevPASH
• Restaurant dashboards
• Executive scorecards

• Menu profitability analysis
• Menu engineering matrix
• Dynamic pricing
• Price elasticity
• Menu psychology
• Upselling and cross-selling

• Customer segmentation
• Guest journey mapping
• Customer Lifetime Value (CLV)
• Loyalty analytics
• Online review analytics
• Google Reviews, Yelp & TripAdvisor insights

• Food waste reduction
• Inventory optimization
• Kitchen productivity
• Labor scheduling
• Table utilization
• Restaurant forecasting

• Google Business Profile optimization
• Delivery platform analytics
• Local SEO
• Social media ROI
• Restaurant marketing dashboards

• ChatGPT for restaurants
• AI-powered forecasting
• Demand prediction
• Inventory planning
• Marketing automation
• Executive reporting

• Restaurant Owners
• Café Owners
• Coffee Shop Owners
• Restaurant Managers
• Hospitality Entrepreneurs
• Franchise Operators
• Hospitality Consultants
• Small Business Owners
• MBA Students
• Hospitality Management Professionals

Whether you're opening your first café or scaling multiple restaurant locations, this book provides practical frameworks that can help improve profitability, reduce waste, strengthen customer loyalty, and make smarter, data-driven decisions.