Who is this assistant for?

Your accountant delivers the P&L on the 20th, and by then it's ancient history. The P&L says you earn and the bank account says you don't: they never match. You don't know how much any given day must sell to not lose money. Big calls — hiring, buying, opening — get made on seasonal gut feeling.

A restaurant can show profit on the P&L and still not cover Friday's payroll: profit is an accounting opinion, cash is a fact. This assistant builds the owner's financial board — distinct from the KPI sheet and the cost board —: the month's income statement on one screen, the cash flow projected eight weeks out with its traffic lights, and the break-even point stated in money and in dishes per day, so every decision — hiring, buying, opening — is made looking at what's left and what's coming.

AI assistant · N5 Complete system

◆ Included in the annual plan🎛️ Dashboards, KPIs and Scorecardsv1.1.0 · 2026-08-25🛠 Delivers a file · use in Cowork

This assistant builds files (dashboard, board, report). Use it in Claude with Cowork or Claude Code: paste the prompt there and receive the tool ready. In a plain chat you will get the design and the instructions, not the files. With a paid plan, also download the Universal Kit in My Library: the input these tools start your project with.

📁 Needs an AI that builds files — Claude with Cowork or Claude Code

Financial Dashboard Builder for Restaurants

The money board: month's P&L summary, 8-week cash-flow projection and break-even point in a single finanzas.html file — because payroll is paid with cash, not paper profit.

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Several chained pieces you install and operate over time, with their review cadence. It changes how the business runs, not one decision.

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What it does and what you get

A restaurant can show profit on the P&L and still not cover Friday's payroll: profit is an accounting opinion, cash is a fact.
This assistant builds the owner's financial board — distinct from the KPI sheet and the cost board —: the month's income statement on one screen, the cash flow projected eight weeks out with its traffic lights, and the break-even point stated in money and in dishes per day, so every decision — hiring, buying, opening — is made looking at what's left and what's coming.

What you end up with

The financial dictionary with every indicator defined — formula, source, frequency, owner —; the finanzas.html file with the month's P&L, the 8-week cash flow with traffic lights and the break-even in money and dishes; and the governance: monthly close with dates, weekly cash routine and the written decision rule.

EXAMPLE This is what you getAn example built with Sazón de Origen, the house's fictional restaurant.Not your data: your result is built with YOUR restaurant's.See the full example →

Sample result

Sazón de OrigenFictional contemporary Colombian restaurant in Medellín, 2 locations, 6 years in business. Every sample result in the library comes from this same case. Fictional restaurant

The owner asked this: «I want the financial board for my two locations. We sell 214 million a month, but in January and February the cash always suffers and I never know how much I can take.»

Every indicator with its real source. Whatever lacks one today comes in flagged, not estimated.

Indicator	Formula	Source	Frequency	Owner	Target or ceiling
Operating margin	(Sales − costs − expenses) / sales	Monthly P&L	Monthly	Owner	Declared target 14% (today 8%)
Real food cost	Period consumption / food sales	Inventory close	Weekly	Head chef	Ceiling declared by the house (today 34%)
Labor cost	Full payroll with charges / sales	Payroll + POS	Monthly	Manager	Ceiling declared by the house (today 28%)
Cash available	Banks + cash − checks issued	Banks + till count	Weekly	Manager	Floor: 1.5 payrolls
Break-even	Fixed costs / the month's contribution margin	P&L + costed menu	Monthly	Owner	Recalculated at every close

Today's weakest datum: weekly consumption is estimated from memory. With no Friday inventory count, the board's food cost is an opinion with two decimals.

SUPUESTO: the two ceilings above are the ones this house declared, not a sector average. If the real food cost ceiling were 2 points higher, the kitchen's light turns from red to amber and the month's first decision stops being purchasing.

One screen, three blocks. Top: the month's P&L against the previous one — sales 214.0 M (+3.1%), food cost 34% in amber against the declared ceiling, labor cost 28% in green, operating margin 8% in amber with the 14% target marked.

Middle: the cash matrix, one column per week across 8 weeks:

	W1	W2	W3	W4	W5	W6	W7	W8
Inflows	51.4	49.8	52.1	53.0	38.2	36.9	41.0	44.3
Outflows	47.2	61.5	45.8	63.1	46.0	60.4	44.7	58.9
Balance	🟢	🟡	🟢	🟡	🟡	🔴 −9.4	🟡	🟡

The high outflows land on payroll weeks (15th and 30th) and rent (the 5th); inflows in weeks 5 and 6 drop with the January seasonality the owner declared. Week 6 needs 18 M set aside before December 31 to be crossed without a panic loan.

Bottom: the month's break-even — 171 M in sales, that is 3.9 M a day, about 81 covers a day at the 48,000 average ticket, and the current safety margin: 20%.

Illustrative example generated with a fictional restaurant. Not a promise of results, not a client case.

This is 2 of 3 parts. Behind the wall is **the governance written inside the file**: the weekly template with owner and day, the monthly-close checklist and the decision rule with its two paths and its confirming figure.

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Works with these AIs

Claude — the best for this assistant With Cowork or Claude Code it builds the real file: writes it to your disk, tests it and hands it back ready to open. Have your fixed costs with payment dates at hand.

How to use it

Fill in My Restaurant with your sales, food cost and labor cost: the board starts from your real numbers, not industry averages.

Copy the full assistant and paste it into an AI agent that builds files (Claude with Cowork or Claude Code).

Answer its questions — one at a time — about fixed costs, debts and payment dates.

Get your finanzas.html file, open it in the browser and read it with the three-color rule.

Each week paste the closing figures where the board asks; on the month's first Friday, read the monthly verdict.

Which of your data it uses

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This assistant works with 9 of the 23 fields in «My Restaurant», among them Restaurant name, Business type and Number of locations. It does not ask out of curiosity: these are what make the answer speak about YOUR scale instead of an industry average — the same calculation on a business of another size returns a number you cannot decide with. You fill them once and they apply across the library, so the second assistant you open already starts with them in place. Whatever you leave blank, the assistant asks for one thing at a time instead of inventing it, and says so before answering, so you know what it is working from.

Restaurant nameBusiness typeNumber of locationsAverage monthly salesAverage check (with currency)Approximate food cost (%)Approximate labor cost (%)Active sales channelsMain goal this year

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Same method, another variant

Inside the app this is a single control: you press it and the assistant reframes itself, including the variants that don't appear here because they don't have their own page yet.

Which area

kitchen service purchasing inventory marketing human resources managementfinanceoperations costs sales channels social media the team dining reasons Interactive KPI Dashboard Builder for Restaurants