Restaurant general manager training. Practice running the operation.
Build your restaurant and foodservice management skills online: diagnose the P&L, coach your chef, brief your district manager, and build a corrective plan. Then see whether the next period improved.
$29/month or $289/year. Cancel anytime.
Membership includes IQ Analytics. Import daily sales, labor and inventory counts from CSV or Excel and investigate your results, or explore the sample dashboard.
Turn operating numbers into your next three actions.
Meet IQ Analytics, your ManagerIQ operations dashboard. See which KPIs need attention, follow the evidence behind the numbers, and build a focused action plan for your team.
See what changed
Explore sales, average ticket, food cost, labor and speed of service against your targets.
Investigate the evidence
Click a KPI to examine the supporting data and identify what to check before assigning a cause.
Put insight into action
Choose three priorities, assign owners and due dates, and record the results you expect.
Included with membership: guided imports for sales, labor and inventory. Upload CSV or Excel daily summaries to review net sales, check counts, average ticket, labor % and sales per labor hour, and inventory variances, each with source evidence. Explore additional operating metrics in the sample dashboard.
Most managers were promoted for cooking, serving or hustling. Not for running a P&L.
The skills that decide whether an operation makes money are rarely taught, and you don’t get many chances to practice them without real cost.
Variance without a diagnosis
“Food cost is high” is not a finding. Separating usage, waste, price, mix and shrink is.
Coaching that stays vague
Good conversations name the facts, the owner, the change and the date. Most skip at least two.
Briefings full of excuses
Your district manager needs the number, the dollars, what you know and what you’re still checking.
Learn restaurant management through seven operating cases
Seven cases cover food cost, labor, guest traffic, food safety, turnover, delivery profitability and handling a health inspector. Each puts you in the general manager’s seat with the information a real operator would have.
Diagnose
Read the P&L and the evidence. Pick the real drivers, not the loudest excuse.
Coach
Talk to the chef or supervisor. Facts, ownership, expected change, a check date.
Brief your boss
Give your district manager the number, the dollars, the known and the unknown.
Plan
Three actions at most. Owner, date, expected point move, and how you will verify it.
See the result
The next period’s P&L comes back. Explain what worked and what did not.
Judgment is earned by decisions and outcomes, not smooth talk.
Your Manager Judgment score comes from what you diagnosed, what you decided and what happened next. Communication is scored separately, so a polished speaker can’t hide a weak diagnosis.
Manager Judgment is provisional after your plan and becomes final once you see the next P&L. Communication (your coaching and your briefing) is reported alongside it.
You stated the 4.7-point miss clearly and separated what’s known from what’s still being validated. You didn’t give a date for your next update.
Made by someone who has run the operation.
ManagerIQ is designed around real foodservice operating decisions, the ones that show up in a weekly review and a period-end close.
New and aspiring managers
Build the P&L fluency that gets you the next role before you’re asked to have it.
Working GMs and kitchen managers
Rehearse the hard conversations and the boss briefing before you have to give them for real.
Operators developing a bench
Give your emerging leaders a safe place to practice judgment. Want it for a team? Get in touch.
One plan. Pay monthly or save with annual.
Cancel anytime.
- Seven AI-scored operating cases
- 100 AI-scored interactions each month
- Saved weekly judgment scores
- IQ Analytics — guided CSV/Excel imports for sales, labor and inventory, plus a sample dashboard
- Free P&L Fundamentals
About $24 a month, billed once a year.
- Everything in monthly
- IQ Analytics — guided CSV/Excel imports for sales, labor and inventory, plus a sample dashboard
- 100 AI-scored interactions each month
- Best value for steady practice
- Free P&L Fundamentals
Restaurant manager training: your questions answered
Who is ManagerIQ for?
General managers, assistant managers, kitchen managers and operators-in-training in restaurants, contract dining, healthcare, education and other foodservice operations. If you are accountable for a P&L and a team, it is built for you.
How is my work scored?
Diagnosis is scored against the actual answer key for the case. Your coaching, briefing, plan and Period 2 explanation are scored by an AI evaluator working from a written rubric for each stage. It rewards specifics, ownership and follow-through, and it is told not to reward polish or executive-sounding language.
What does “100 AI interactions per month” mean?
Each time you submit a written response for AI scoring, that counts as one interaction. Lessons, dashboards, your saved results and the P&L Fundamentals module do not count. The allowance is per month and resets monthly, including on the annual plan.
Do I need to know how to read a P&L first?
No. P&L Fundamentals is a free module that covers percentage points, dollar variance and how to state a miss clearly. It takes a few minutes.
What is IQ Analytics?
IQ Analytics is the ManagerIQ operations dashboard included in your membership. Explore KPI investigations, evidence-linked recommendations and a three-action operating plan with sample data today. Members can import daily sales, daily labor totals and inventory count variances from CSV or Excel in the guided import beta, with source evidence, traffic-versus-ticket comparisons, labor % and sales per labor hour, and the largest inventory variances by dollars. Automatic POS, payroll and inventory-system syncing is not included.
Can I cancel?
Yes. Cancel any time from the Billing page; it takes a few clicks and needs no email. Access continues to the end of the period you paid for.
Is my data private?
Your responses and scores are stored under your account and are visible only to you. Training cases use a fictional restaurant; do not paste real company or employee information into training responses. For IQ Analytics, upload only operating reports you are authorized to use. Imported daily sales and the selected source columns are stored under your account, separately from the sample dashboard. Do not include customer, employee or payment details.
Build your restaurant management skills
Work through a calculation, identify what to investigate, and prepare for your next operating review. No account needed.
How to read a restaurant P&L
Translate a percentage-point miss into dollars and a clear manager briefing.
Investigate high food cost
Separate purchasing, inventory, waste and usage before choosing a corrective action.
Understand labor cost percentage
Distinguish sales changes from hours and rates, then review the effect on service.
Your next promotion is a P&L conversation.
Start with the free P&L lesson, then take on your first operating case.