Copper Fork Kitchen — Queen Creek
Daily briefing · Friday, 2026-09-18
Complete — POS import reconciled at 5:12 AM
Net sales
$3,569.00
-15% vs baseline
median $4,200.00 (8 Fridays)
Checks
205
-15% vs baseline
median 241
Sales / labor hour
$57.56
-16% vs baseline
median $68.52
Direct labor %
29.5%
wages only; excludes salary and payroll taxes
Lunch sales fell 29.0% below the Friday baseline
- Lunch (11:00–14:00) net sales $927.00 vs median $1,306.00 across 8 comparable Fridays
- Dinner held within normal range — the decline is concentrated in lunch
- Check count down 36 vs baseline; average check roughly flat
Review lunch staffing and any nearby lunch-traffic changes with the GM; confirm whether the patio closure affected seating.
Traffic decline is measured; the cause is not. This is a review prompt, not a conclusion.
Beverage units are 29.2% below baseline
- 132 beverage units vs median 186.5 across 8 comparable Fridays
- Category mapping is stable across the comparison window
Check beverage availability and whether servers are offering drinks at greeting; review against the last menu change.
Data cannot distinguish a stockout from an offering change — verify on the floor.
Total day landed below baseline — driven by the lunch daypart
- Net sales $3,569.00 vs median $4,200.00
- Daypart attribution: lunch accounts for the majority of the shortfall
No separate action — resolves with the lunch finding above.
Same underlying evidence as the lunch finding; not double-counted.