Operational intelligence for hospitality
Connect sales, labor, costs, and profit in one clear view. See what changed, understand why, and decide what to do next.
Sales are only the start of the story. Labor takes its share every shift. Cost of goods takes its share every invoice. Overhead takes the rest on a schedule of its own.
NorthMargin connects those numbers—sales, labor, COGS, prime cost, and profit—into one view of what the operation actually kept.
Stop rebuilding the business in spreadsheets.
Revenue
A strong night on the POS can still be a weak night for the business. Sales only tell you what came in—not what it cost to produce.
NorthMargin puts revenue next to the labor and cost that earned it, so you can see whether a busy week actually moved the margin.
Labor
Schedules drift quietly. An extra hour here, an early call-in there—none of it looks like a decision, and all of it shows up in the margin.
See labor next to the sales it produced, shift by shift, so you can correct the pattern before it becomes the norm.
Cost
A supplier raises a price. A pour gets heavier. Invoice by invoice, the numbers move—and nobody notices until the month is closed.
NorthMargin tracks cost against sales continuously, so you can see where the margin went before the month is over.
The complete picture
Net sales, labor wages, COGS, prime cost, break-even, and profit sit side by side, compared against the previous period. Sales increased. Profit did not. See why.
Sales, labor, menu economics, and break-even in one hospitality-native view.
Liquidity snapshot
Open balances$14,380.00
Protected-cash aware
$9,500.00
3 layer(s)
$16,240.00
Closing cash
92
High
+$612.00
7d above forecast
KPI analysis
Trend and comparison
Current vs prior period| Date | Day | Sales | Trend | Labor $ | Labor Hrs | Labor % | Rev/Hr | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-17 | Thu | $4,620.00 | Above | $1,290.00 | 88.50 | 27.9% | $52.20 | Balanced |
| 2026-07-18 | Fri | $7,890.00 | Above | $1,845.00 | 121.00 | 23.4% | $65.20 | Efficient |
| 2026-07-19 | Sat | $8,940.00 | Above | $2,010.00 | 130.50 | 22.5% | $68.50 | Efficient |
| 2026-07-20 | Sun | $5,480.00 | In line | $1,485.00 | 99.00 | 27.1% | $55.40 | Balanced |
| 2026-07-21 | Mon | $2,910.00 | Below | $1,020.00 | 72.00 | 35.1% | $40.40 | Overstaffed |
Every number carries its change against the prior period, aligned to your real operating day—not the calendar's.
Labor, cost, and item-level context sit behind each movement, so a shift in profit traces back to a cause.
Know what changed. Decide what to do next—for one location or across a growing organization.
The difference between a good night and a good business is what you kept.
Built from a real operation
NorthMargin started while we were operating our own bar. Sales lived in the POS, labor lived in another platform, and costs lived in spreadsheets.
Understanding what the business actually produced meant rebuilding the picture by hand, week after week. We built NorthMargin so operators would not have to.
Resources
Margin and profitability
A practical framework for balancing labor and cost drivers with tighter weekly margin control.
Coming soon
Operator education
A repeatable meeting structure for managers reviewing sales, labor, and margin movement.
Coming soon
Margin and profitability
How to apply break-even analysis in day-to-day operations and planning decisions.
Coming soon
Start with the numbers you already have. NorthMargin connects them.