Hospitality – Restaurant Analysis Dashboard

What is a Restaurant Performance Dashboard? Restaurant Dashboards are considered performance analysis tools and are used by Finance and restaurant managers to look at essential metrics and trends. Some of the main functionality in this type of dashboard is that it provides analysis from six different perspectives, including: 1) Monthly trend in restaurant covers, 2) Revenue comparison across restaurants, 3) Top expenses, ranked, 4) Trend in food & beverage (F&B) revenues, 5) Beverage revenue ranked by category, and 6) Food revenue for breakfast, lunch and dinner. You find an example of this type of dashboard below.

Purpose of Restaurant Performance Dashboards Hospitality companies use Restaurant Performance Dashboards to provide a high level snapshot of statistical and revenue trends and comparisons. When used as part of good business practices in FP&A  departments, a company can improve its operational tactics, and it can reduce the chances that low performing areas go under the radar with resulting lack of action.

Who Uses This Type of Dashboard? The typical users of this type of dashboard are: Executives, CFOs, Analysts, Restaurant Managers. Other Reports Often Used in Conjunction with Restaurant Performance Dashboard Progressive FP&A and Executive departments sometimes use several different Restaurant Performance Dashboards, along with detailed financial statements, corporate dashboards, forecast models, budgets, KPI scorecards and other management and control tools.

Where Does the Data for Analysis Originate From? The Actual (historical transactions) data typically comes from enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems like: Microsoft Dynamics 365 (D365) Finance, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central (D365 BC), Microsoft Dynamics AX, Microsoft Dynamics NAV, Microsoft Dynamics GP, Microsoft Dynamics SL, Sage Intacct, Sage 100, Sage 300, Sage 500, Sage X3, SAP Business One, SAP ByDesign, Acumatica, Netsuite and others. In analyses where budgets or forecasts are used, the planning data most often originates from in-house Excel spreadsheet models or from professional xFP&A solutions.

Built for hospitality finance teams and aligned with Solver's xFP&A platform, this Solver dashboard template connects directly to your ERP data via the Solver Data Warehouse, enabling near real-time analysis with minimal setup. Designed for QuickStart deployment, it can be activated rapidly so your team can focus on analysis and decisions — not data preparation.

What is the Hospitality – Restaurant Analysis Dashboard in Solver? The Hospitality – Restaurant Analysis Dashboard is a pre-built xFP&A dashboard template in Solver designed for hospitality organizations. It delivers key financial and operational metrics in a single, easy-to-use interface — purpose-built for hospitality finance workflows.

Who uses this Solver dashboard template? Cfos, fp&a managers, and hospitality finance teams in hospitality organizations rely on this Solver dashboard template to replace manual spreadsheet-based processes with automated, near real-time analysis. It is especially useful during month-end close, budget cycles, and board reporting.

Where does the data come from? Data is sourced automatically from your ERP system through the Solver Data Warehouse, which integrates with platforms such as Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, Dynamics 365 Finance, Acumatica, Sage Intacct, and other leading ERP solutions. Property management systems (PMS) and point-of-sale data can also be integrated for full hotel and venue revenue visibility. Once connected, the template updates in near real-time with no manual data entry required.

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