Toast Restaurant Resource Center

Metrics & Finance

Restaurant Cost Control Guide

We created this Restaurant Cost Control Guide to help all types of operations gain more control of their restaurant costs. Use this guide to learn more about your restaurant costs, how to track them, and steps you can take to help maximize your profitability.

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Metrics & Finance

The Guide to Restaurant Sales: How to Increase Restaurant Sales and Measure Success

In this Guide to Restaurant Sales, you’ll learn the metrics you need to measure to understand the financial health of your restaurant. Plus, you’ll get tons of great ideas that’ll help you learn how to improve sales in your restaurant.

Staffing & Hiring

Restaurant Scheduling Template

Use the Restaurant Scheduling Template to easily schedule your restaurant staff's shifts. You can update the schedule digitally on a weekly basis, then either share it digitally with your employees or print it out and share it with each of your employees in-person.

Management | Staffing & Hiring

Restaurant Cleaning Checklist

Download the Restaurant Cleaning Checklist, created in partnership with RestaurantSupply.com, to keep track of the cleaning tasks that need to be completed in your restaurant.

Marketing

Restaurant Marketing Plan

Use this restaurant marketing plan to create a custom marketing plan for your restaurant, outlining your marketing strategy, planned marketing activities, marketing budget, anticipated results, and more.

Marketing

Guide to Restaurant Social Media Marketing

In this Restaurant Social Media Guide, you’ll get an overview of how to best showcase your restaurant on the most popular social media sites.

Industry Trends

Community Ask Me Anything with Emmanuelle Skala, SVP of Customer Success

Join Emmanuelle Skala, SVP of Customer Success, on Tuesday December 14th from 2:30-3:15pm EST as she addresses recent feedback from the customer community and answers questions that are top of mind to you.

Staffing & Hiring | Metrics & Finance

Tip Pooling Calculator

Download the Tip Pooling Calculator to learn how to distribute tips back to your restaurant’s employees using the tip pooling method.

Metrics & Finance

How to Measure and Increase Restaurant Sales

Toast's guide on restaurant sales for how to assess your current restaurant sales metrics, diagnose how to improve them, and track what works and what doesn’t.

Menu & Kitchen

The Restaurant Menu Engineering Course

This full-length online course has everything you need to know to make the most of your menu using menu engineering. Learn how to identify your menu's stars, puzzles, plowhorses, and dogs. Learn about menu psychology and design, managing your menu on your website and on third-party delivery sites, and adapting your menu when your restaurant is growing.

Menu & Kitchen

Menu Engineering Worksheet

Use this menu engineering worksheet, complete with intricate menu engineering formulas, to determine areas of strength and weakness in your restaurant's menu.

Menu & Kitchen

Restaurant Menu Templates

Download these 17 free, customizable, and print-ready menu templates to update your restaurant's menu and refresh your restaurant brand.