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The Owner's Rack

19 instruments. Free. Forever.

Every diagnostic GGB works from, on the rack, free — plus the templates behind them.

Why free? Because an owner who can see the leak clearly makes better decisions — including the decision to fix it alone. Twenty-eight years of engagements taught me that the operators who run the instruments honestly are exactly the ones worth working with when the job is bigger than a docket. The rack is the practice, in public. Run the numbers. Keep the tools. Call when the night needs more than a read. — P. Dayaparan

226dockets printed this quarter

14of the 19 rack instruments run this quarter

Counted live from the operating system — an instrument counts as run when it prints a completed reading · as of 21 September 2026

One service footprint — Dubai · Muscat · Doha · Mumbai · Singapore.

Pick the decision you're facing and the Rack narrows to the five things that serve it — one instrument to start with, one to deepen, the evidence, the service, and the honest next step. Or browse the full Rack below.

Instrument 20 · The collection instrument

The GGB Index — the anonymised F&B benchmark, built by operators.

Contribute five governed figures, anonymously. Contributors receive the full report free at publication. The other 19 read your operation; this one builds the benchmark they read against.

Free email course · five nights

Five Nights to a Tighter P&L.

One leak per night — food cost, labour, occupancy, the aggregator's cut, and the weekly P&L discipline that holds them. Written by the founder, each night bridging to the instrument that measures it. Five emails. Then it stops.

The working templates

The paper the instruments write on.

Turnaround

Printable framework

The 90-Day Restaurant Turnaround Map

The exact three-phase sequence GGB uses to take a losing restaurant to a defensible margin in one quarter.

  • The Diagnose → Fix → Lock phases
  • What to do each fortnight
  • The weekly P&L cadence that makes it stick

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Control

Fill-in template

The Restaurant Monthly P&L Template

A clean monthly P&L skeleton on the lines that actually decide a restaurant’s profit — ready to fill in.

  • Every line as a % of revenue
  • Prime-cost and net-margin roll-ups
  • Typical ranges to sanity-check against

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Launch

Printable checklist

The Pre-Opening & Feasibility Checklist

The readiness checklist GGB runs before a restaurant opens — so you open on time, licensed and built to make money.

  • Feasibility & concept gates
  • Licensing & site
  • Kitchen, team & launch readiness

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Control

Fill-in control sheet

The Weekly Food-Cost Control Sheet

The weekly cycle and tracker GGB uses to close the gap between theoretical and actual food cost.

  • The weekly food-cost cycle
  • A theoretical-vs-actual tracker
  • Where the variance usually hides

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Franchise

Printable checklist

The Franchise-Readiness Checklist

The dimensions an outlet must prove before it is an investable, repeatable franchise system.

  • Proven unit economics
  • Documented systems
  • The franchise offer & support model

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Beyond the rack

The instruments open the door. The founder closes the gap.

Every premium engagement is founder-fronted and worked from your real numbers. Start with a conversation — or send one page of your P&L for the Second Opinion.

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