Sawa's Old Warsaw · April 2026

Owner P&L

QuickBooks has the numbers. You can't read QuickBooks. This is the same data, daily food $, weekly labor %, prime cost vs target, COGS by vendor. Restaurant cost-line labels, not GAAP jargon.

Owner's / Net Income

$8,140

On track

5.9% net margin ↑ $1,820 vs Apr 2025

6 profitable months trailing

Auto-narrative: Revenue up 14% YoY, Saturday lift driving it. Food cost held at 34.9% (target ≤35%), labor 28.4% (target ≤30%). The TikTok influencer effect compounds month-over-month. Sustainable.

✓ Under 65% target

Where every dollar of revenue goes

35%

28%

31%

Food cost, 35%

Labor, 28%

Occupancy + overhead, 31%

Owner's income, 6%

Total Sales · April

$138.5K

↑ 14.2% YoY

Food Cost

$48.3K

34.9% · target ≤35%

Labor

$39.4K

28.4% · target ≤30%

Operating Income

$15.6K

11.3% margin

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Attribution insight · Saturday step-change

Saturday food sales lifted +46% sustained since August 2025, that's the TikTok influencer effect.

Pre-Aug 2025: avg Sat food ~$7,184 · 290 covers. Post-Aug 2025: ~$10,500 · 400 covers. Avg ticket flat ($25-28) = pure new-customer volume, not pricing. Two TikTok visits in late July show vertical lines on the chart. View the Saturday trend chart →

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Catering channel split · Beta

Today catering is lumped into Food Sales. Turn this on, separate it.

Q3 2026

Dine-in (est)

$128.4K

92.7% of Food Sales

Catering (est)

$10.1K

7.3% · ~3 events/mo at $3.4K

How to turn it on: use the existing journal.MiscIncome column (already exposed on /pl-journal) for catering checks instead of folding them into FoodSales. Zero schema change. Or add a CateringSales column, cleaner long-term. Adam's call.

Line item

Amount

% of rev

vs Apr 2025

▾ Total Sales

$138,533

100%

↑ 14.2%

Food Sales (buffet)

$120,314

86.9%

↑ 15.8%

Beverage Sales (bar + soft)

$13,820

10.0%

↑ 8.1%

Other (gaming · ATM · catering)

$4,399

3.2%

↑ 2.1%

▾ Cost of Goods Sold (by vendor)

($48,341)

34.9%

flat

Liberty USA · proteins + dry + paper

($28,420)

20.5%

↑ 3.1%

Bear Foods · dairy + fillings

($6,180)

4.5%

↓ 1.2%

Ecolab · cleaning · chemicals

($1,420)

1.0%

flat

Beverage cost (bar)

($4,820)

3.5%

↑ 2.4%

Other vendors · True Value + ad-hoc

($7,501)

5.4%

flat

Gross Profit

$90,192

65.1%

↑ 19.8%

▾ Labor

($39,360)

28.4%

↑ 6.2%

BOH · kitchen + dish

($18,840)

13.6%

↑ 4.8%

FOH · servers + busser + host

($16,720)

12.1%

↑ 7.3%

Admin · bookkeeping

($1,890)

1.4%

flat

Owner's draws (normalized)

($1,910)

1.4%

flat

Prime Cost (Food + Labor)

$87,701

63.3% · ✓ ≤65%

▾ Operating Expenses

($35,072)

25.3%

↑ 3.1%

Rent + occupancy

($12,800)

9.2%

flat

Utilities · gas · electric · water

($4,180)

3.0%

↑ 7.8%

Insurance · liquor license amortized

($3,910)

2.8%

flat

Credit-card processing

($3,460)

2.5%

↑ 11.2%

Repairs + maintenance

($2,840)

2.0%

↑ 24%

Other overhead (smallwares · misc)

($7,882)

5.7%

flat

Operating Income

$15,620

11.3%

↑ 38.4%

Taxes · interest · sales tax pass-through

($7,480)

5.4%

flat

Owner's / Net Income

$8,140

5.9%

↑ 28.8%