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The Marty Blog

Field notes for multi-unit restaurant operators on daily visibility, useful alerts, and manager follow-through across locations.

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Getting Started With Marty: Access, Review, and Next Steps

See how Marty establishes a location-level baseline, assigns actions, and scopes optional Managed Profit Control for follow-up and verification.

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Restaurant Ghost Shifts: How to Investigate Time Records

Separate false time records from legitimate extra work. Compare schedules, punches, approvals, and payroll before deciding what a restaurant labor exception means.

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Restaurant Cash Management: Connect the Drawer Count to the Bank Deposit

Build a restaurant cash trail from POS activity through drawer counts, safe handoffs, and bank deposits. Keep timing differences and unresolved variances visible.

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Restaurant Cost of Goods Sold: Control Vendor Changes Without Losing the Trail

Calculate restaurant COGS consistently, compare delivered unit costs and substitutions, and investigate actual-versus-theoretical variance by location.

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Restaurant Cost Control: Seven Exceptions Worth Reviewing Before Month-End

Review overtime, transaction adjustments, staffing, reservations, deposits, and menu pricing with evidence, named owners, and clear next actions.

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Restaurant Financial Review Cadence: Daily, Weekly, and Period-End

Build a multi-location financial review cadence with source records, decision owners, a meeting agenda, and clear outputs for daily, weekly, and period-end checks.

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Multi-Unit Restaurant Management: Give Each Location Clear Ownership

Build location-level accountability with shared metric definitions, local targets, escalation rules, and evidence that actions worked.

October 2024
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Restaurant Labor Cost Percentage: Set a Target Your Locations Can Use

Calculate restaurant labor cost percentage consistently, separate sales and spending changes, and build location targets around your service model and budget.

October 2024
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Marty vs. CTUIT: Reporting, Ownership, and Verified Follow-Through

Keep useful CTUIT reporting while evaluating Marty's managed profit-control routine: find issues, assign owners, follow up, and verify results.

February 2025
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Marty vs. MarginEdge: Cost Visibility and Managed Follow-Through

Compare MarginEdge's cost-management tools with Marty's managed profit-control layer. Start with the baseline, then assign, follow up, and verify.

March 2025
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Marty vs. Tenzo: Restaurant Intelligence and Managed Profit Control

Tenzo offers reporting and alerts. Evaluate Marty on managed ownership, follow-up, escalation, and verification, starting with the Cash Recovery Plan.

February 2025
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Marty vs. Compeat: Accounting Records and Accountable Follow-Through

Keep accounting responsibilities clear while evaluating Marty's managed profit-control routine across locations, beginning with the paid Cash Recovery Plan.

February 2025
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Marty vs. Fourth: Workforce Visibility and Managed Profit Control

Compare Fourth's workforce capabilities with Marty's profit-control routine: assign actions, follow up, and verify results across locations.

March 2025
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Marty vs. HotSchedules: Scheduling and Managed Follow-Through

Keep HotSchedules for scheduling while evaluating Marty for managed profit control. Compare responsibilities, access needs, and the work after an alert.

January 2025
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How to Test Overtime Alerts in Restaurant Scheduling Software

Test overtime alerts in restaurant scheduling software with a controlled employee-week worksheet covering actual hours, routing, stale data, and manager response.

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Restaurant Reporting Software: A Buyer’s Guide for Multi-Location Groups

Test restaurant reporting tools for source detail, consistent definitions, missing-data handling, useful alerts, and ownership across locations before buying.

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Restaurant Prime Cost: Calculate It Consistently and Find the Cause of Change

Calculate restaurant prime cost from COGS and labor, align the periods and definitions, and investigate location-level changes without relying on a universal target.

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Restaurant Profit and Loss Statement: Six Numbers to Investigate

Read restaurant labor, inventory, discounts and cash variances with the supporting records needed to understand each location.

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How to Build a Restaurant P&L That Supports Location-Level Decisions

Build consistent location P&Ls, reconcile source systems and use a clearly labeled weekly flash report without confusing estimates with closed books.

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Marty Pricing: The Cash Recovery Plan and Managed Profit Control

Understand the paid baseline Review, the flat fee confirmed first, and optional Managed Profit Control that follows up on agreed actions and verifies results.

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