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Operator intelligence, written from the floor.

Field notes on margin, compliance, and the mechanics of running profitable restaurants in San Diego. Published here first or ported from LinkedIn — no newsletter, no gate.

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SB 68 is live. The 20-location threshold is the wrong read.

The allergen mandate targets big chains — but the liability it exposes is sitting in every independent operator's walk-in right now.

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Sales cures all?

Sales up 12%, profit flat. Revenue isn't the cure — it's the amplifier of whatever margin structure you already have.

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Is this room your biggest financial blind spot?

A $40 sanitizer jug spec'd for 14 days, gone in 4. The supply line isn't a purchasing problem — it's a measurement problem.

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The wage increase didn't raise your labor. Your schedule did.

$6,900 a quarter lost to idle hours at open and close — a scheduling problem wearing a wage problem's clothes.

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Prime cost forensics: 14 ribeye portions died in plain sight

Your invoice says 142 portions. You rang 128. Nobody stole anything — here's where the 14 went, and the yield test that finds them.

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