Step 2 of 5
What you need
Two files, and both of them come from equipment you already have. Ask each for the same ninety days.
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The list of everything you sold
Your till can email you this. Toast and Square both keep it under their reporting section and most other systems put it somewhere similar, under a name like sales or transactions. What you want is the LIST — one line per sale, with the time on it — rather than the summary with the totals.
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How many people were in
A door counter, or whatever your door staff keep the count in: how many came in and how many went out, through the night. This one is not optional. Without it there is no headcount to put the money against, and the headcount is the whole answer.
One thing to hand to whoever looks after your tills
Today this reads one shape and only one: both files have to arrive with an exact first line. That is a two-minute job for whoever set up your system, and it is spelled out in full — with a working example you can send straight back in to see what happens — on the two pages below.