Community-first since 1998, Capital Restaurant Group now runs 36 locations across D.C., Virginia, and Maryland — three brands, corporate and franchise, plus catering and events. As the group grew, the numbers scattered across POS exports, spreadsheets, and filings. This brings them back into one instrument: every figure the business runs on, made legible, traceable, and live.
One instrument. Point it at what the business runs on.
The same engine that reads a federal budget reads a restaurant group. Aim it at three things and it turns scattered records — POS exports, spreadsheets, filings — into one clean, live picture of each.
The books
Per-store P&L, food and labor, prime cost, corporate vs. franchise — reconciled to the dollar.
Operations
Quality and inspections, labor and throughput, franchise compliance, the catering & events channel.
Growth
Trade-area demographics, demand, site selection, marketing reach — down to the household.
Where the money goes, per store, tied out.
Your books and POS flow in and reconcile to the dollar — every unit's P&L on one spine. The brand's own colors become the read: tricolore green means on target, red means look here.
Per-store P&L
Sales, food cost, labor, prime cost — the numbers a restaurant CFO manages on, per unit.
Prime cost & margin
Food and labor as a share of sales, per unit against target — the number that makes or breaks a restaurant.
Corporate vs. franchise
Both models side by side on one spine — the mix you actually run.
Reconcile-to-the-dollar
Ingest the POS exports and books as they are; replicate, tie out, then improve. Nothing to re-enter.
How each store actually runs.
The same read on the operating layer — quality, labor, throughput, and how every unit stacks up against the rest. Some of it is public before you open a single book.
Quality & inspections
Per-location health-inspection scores over time — the private-sector version of an audit trail.
Labor & throughput
Sales per labor hour, speed of service, peak-hour coverage — per store, week over week.
Network benchmarking
Rank units, flag outliers, surface the franchisees drifting — the report franchisors fight to get clean.
Catering & events
The food truck, stands, and catering — demand that travels, tracked alongside the fixed stores.
Where the next store goes.
Growth is a trade-area question. Every Capital Restaurant Group location is geocoded from public records and carries a real 2.5-mile trade-area profile pulled live from the U.S. Census — the demand, income, and rooftops each store draws on. This isn't a mockup — scroll to zoom, drag to pan, click any store.
Public first. Inside on your terms.
Whichever lens you point it at, it's built the same way: from the outside using only public record, then extended inside to your real books — the same clean, traceable picture, end to end.
The Mirror costs nothing and needs no permission — it's assembled from records anyone can pull. You see it before committing a single internal number.
The Monitor is the real thing: your numbers, reconciled to the dollar and made stakeholder-legible. It lives behind a login you control — never fully public.
Runs on your stack
It reads your POS exports and books as they are and reconciles to them. Nothing to migrate, no new system to learn.
Weeks, not years
The public layer needs no access at all, and the engine already exists — so you see value before committing IT time or budget.
Public first, private on your terms
You review the finished public version first. Internal numbers only move once you've said yes — behind a login you control.
Start outside. Move inside on your terms.
The public monitor
You get the outside view first — footprint, unit economics, inspections, sentiment. No access needed, nothing at risk.
See it live
Review the live public monitor with your team and decide whether the internal version is worth wiring. No obligation to go further.
Wire your numbers
When you're ready, your books and POS flow in, reconcile to the dollar, and the per-store and network views come online.
Set the boundary
Decide who sees what — franchisees, investors, lenders — and publish only what you choose to publish.