Never 86'd for operators
Daily margin control for restaurant operators
545,677 ORDERS ANALYZED · EVERY NUMBER SOURCED
16-UNIT DESIGN PILOT LIVE
— Find the leak. Assign the fix. Keep the receipt.
Your P&L is 30 days late.
Your problems aren't.
Never 86'd turns yesterday's restaurant numbers into today's ranked actions — where margin leaked, who owns the fix, and what happens next. In plain English, every morning. No spreadsheets. No waiting on the accountant.
Real orders analyzed
545,677
Checks live on your numbers today
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15min
Money-back window
30days
— See it work · Void Hunter
It doesn't say voids are up. It names who.
A sample 5-store group — real math, names hidden. In a working design pilot with a 16-unit chef-led group, this tool analyzed 545,677 real orders — $15.72M checked to the cent — and surfaced an estimated $1.81M of annual leak, every figure labeled. On your own report it runs in 30 seconds at the free leak audit — and it names your stores, not these.
— The name
Server #14
Downtown · 41 voided items · $4,200 in voids
MORE VOIDS THAN A NORMAL STORE · FULL-YEAR PACE
~$21,600/yr
— 5 stores · void rate vs the normal range
TYPICAL STORE 0.51%
| DowntownABOVE NORMAL | 1.24% | |
| University | 0.70% | |
| Riverside | 0.51% | |
| Midtown | 0.40% | |
| Airport | 0.30% |
One store above the normal range. One name inside it. That's the whole job.
Run it on your numbers →— See it work · Tip Variance
NETWORK −8.2% WoW
It names whose tips fell.
Server #9
University · server−31%
$980 this week · $1,420 last
— See it work · Vendor Drift
APR → MAY
It names the SKU and the cheaper vendor.
Mozzarella LMPS 6/5 LB
PFG · DRIFTING
$2.37 +7.2%
SYSCO · HELD
$1.96 17% under PFG
— The math
What's a few points worth to you?
Drop in your monthly sales. Every point of food cost we help you claw back is real money — and it dwarfs the price.
— Food-cost points recovered
Most kitchens have 2–4 points hiding in voids, vendor drift, tips, and waste.
— That's worth
$14,400/yr
$1,200/mo · 2 points of food cost
Pulse is $199/mo — this pace pays for it 6× over every month.
See where yours is leaking →— 01 · What we offer
From the solo operator to the C-suite.
Two ways to use it. Never 86'd Owner is for a 1–2 store operator — a ranked Morning Brief from your own numbers: where margin leaked, who owns the fix, what happens next. $199/mo. Never 86'd Command runs a whole group, proven in a working design pilot with a 16-unit chef-led group. Not sure which fits? Start with the free leak audit — everyone does.
— Free Leak Audit
Start here. Free.
One store, doing the ops, the books, and the floor yourself at 11pm? Send one sales report and see your leak in 30 seconds. No card.
- ✓60 minutes · one sales report · no card
- ✓2 checks run live on your own numbers today · 6 more as interactive demos
- ✓Direct line to the founder
— Never 86'd Owner · $199/mo
1–2 stores. Your Morning Brief.
Most independents see prime cost when the accountant sends it — weeks late. Owner gives you a ranked Morning Brief from your own numbers every day: the leak, the owner of the fix, the next move.
- ✓Daily food cost · 30/60/90-day prime cost trend
- ✓Cheapest-price compare across your vendors · per-name alerts
- ✓$199/mo Charter rate — first 100 operators · 30-day refund
— Never 86'd Command · $499/location/mo
3–9 locations. The whole group, one screen.
Everything in Owner, for every store at once — roll up to the top, drill into one, see each store against the normal range for your group, and every fix assigned to a name.
- ✓Every store compared against the rest of your group
- ✓A screen built for each person · CEO / CFO / COO / Chef / Owner
- ✓Entry: a three-location, 90-day paid pilot
— Never 86'd Enterprise · 10+ locations
Multi-brand. Custom scope.
The whole system under your brands, scoped with you — integrations, controls, and deployment sized to how your group actually runs. We don't publish the rest — email Myke.
- ✓Custom scope: SSO (one company login) · custom POS · per-brand controls
- ✓Scoped and priced with you — no off-the-shelf promises
- ✓Quarterly business review with the founder
— Same show-our-work discipline at every tier. The price scales; the rule doesn't.
— 02 · Myke's story
I built this for myself first.
I'm Myke. I run Community Tap & Pizza in Fort Dodge, Iowa. I've been an operator longer than I've been a founder. Still am — the floor on Friday night, the books on Saturday morning.
I started building Never 86'd because nobody was making the screen I actually wanted. Every restaurant tech vendor either sold me a dashboard I had to interpret myself, or charged me enterprise prices for software built for the office, not the line.
The first version was a single HTML file on my laptop. I was trying to figure out why food cost drifted four points one week and nobody could explain it. I wrote the math, fed in my own Z-reports, and it pointed at the right station. Then it pointed at the next leak. Then the next.
I knew it was a real product the day a chef-led 16-unit group asked if I could run it on their data. I did. The first number we produced was wrong — $8.3M that walked back to $1.81M. So I corrected it, in writing, in front of them. That's when I knew the discipline of publishing corrections was the actual product. Read the case.
Now I'm building it for everybody from the solo operator to the 50-unit CEO. Same show-our-work rule. Same operator-to-operator language. If something on the screen doesn't make sense, you can email me directly. myke@n86.app.
— Myke Mueller · Fort Dodge, Iowa
— 03 · What we do
We sit on top of the systems you run
and tell you where the numbers stop agreeing.
— What we are not
Not a dashboard.
Dashboards make you read a chart and decide what to do. We name the leak, point at the store, name the person, and tell you the next move.
— What we are not
Not a CRM.
Your POS already knows everything that happened. We sit next to it and tell you which of those things were a leak, by store and by name.
— What we are not
Not a replacement.
Keep Toast, R365, 7shifts, Thanx, Marqii. We don't rip anything out. We sit on top of the stack you have and reconcile across it.
— What we are
Your back office, watching the money.
We watch your sales, labor, voids, delivery fees, tips, catering, and how shifts are going. One simple screen per person. We label every number Verified (confirmed), Estimated (our best math), or Unverified (still a guess) — so you always know what's solid. When we get one wrong, we tell you and fix it.
— How it works
30 seconds to first leak.
Send a report from Toast, Square, Clover, or PDQ at the free trial. Two tools run on your real numbers right away — a 60-minute live look, no card, no salesperson. Like it? We'll connect it straight to your register so it updates on its own.
— 04 · Try it free
Try one. Right now.
Voids
Void Hunter
The one name voiding more than everyone else — by store, and across all your stores.
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Delivery
3P Fee Finder
What DoorDash, Uber Eats, and Grubhub actually take vs what your contract says.
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Labor
Labor Leak
OT drift, ghost shifts, schedule-vs-clocked gaps.
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What we check
— 05 · 15 minutes