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Cash · 13 weeks
UAE Restaurant Cash Flow Template
Thirteen weeks of receipts, payments and closing cash, with a buffer alert on every week — so payroll and the rent cheque never arrive as a surprise.
XLSX · 25 KB · UAE edition 1.0
Free tools · The Owner's Rack
20 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
43dockets printed this quarter
14of the 20 rack instruments run this quarter
Counted live from the operating system — an instrument counts as run when it prints a completed reading · as of 3 October 2026
One service footprint — Dubai · Muscat · Doha · Mumbai · Singapore.
What decision are you facing?six decisions · five routes each · governed config
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.
Margin Integrity
Operating Control
Founder-Independence & Resilience
Scale Readiness
Demand & Retention
Instrument 21 · 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 20 read your operation; this one builds the benchmark they read against.
UAE Restaurant Operations Toolkit · UAE edition 1.0 · free download
Five working documents. Four decisions.
Editable Excel and Word files built for a UAE outlet — AED, VAT-inclusive cash, WPS payroll, rent cheques, MOHRE and Dubai Municipality references — each with a guide, a fictional worked example and the mistakes to avoid. No e-mail, no phone, nothing stored: download and use.
Pricing · VAT · prime cost
UAE Menu Price Increase Calculator
Test a price rise before the menu is reprinted: the employment-cost bridge, the prime-cost target and, item by item, how much volume a new price can afford to lose.
XLSX · 22 KB · UAE edition 1.0
Team · induction
UAE Onboarding & Training Pack
One induction checklist per employee — from pre-arrival to signed-off independent service — and the questions every new starter asks, answered once.
DOCX + PDF · 560 KB · UAE edition 1.0
Team · weekly rhythm
Team Meeting & Weekly Scorecard
A 30-minute training launch, a 20-minute weekly review with a six-line scorecard, and an action register with named owners — the meeting rhythm that keeps a P&L honest.
DOCX + PDF · 285 KB · UAE edition 1.0
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 frameworkThe 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
Open the 90-Day Restaurant Turnaround Map
Free to open, print or save as PDF — no email asked.
Control
Fill-in templateThe 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
Open the Restaurant Monthly P&L Template
Free to open, print or save as PDF — no email asked.
Launch
Printable checklistThe 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
Open the Pre-Opening & Feasibility Checklist
Free to open, print or save as PDF — no email asked.
Control
Fill-in control sheetThe 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
Open the Weekly Food-Cost Control Sheet
Free to open, print or save as PDF — no email asked.
Franchise
Printable checklistThe 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
Open the Franchise-Readiness Checklist
Free to open, print or save as PDF — no email asked.
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.