Margin walkthroughs, daily-routine playbooks, accounting basics, and the occasional changelog. Short, honest, written by owner-operators — not finance influencers.
A no-jargon walkthrough: revenue minus COGS, minus daily-pro-rated fixed costs. That's it. We promise.
Jonas Berger · 09 MayFrom bag-of-flour cost to till receipt — exactly how to land on a price that pays for itself, the oven, and the morning shift.
Mara Liss · 06 MayThe median café runs 31.4% food cost. Top quartile sits at 27.1%. Here's where the difference comes from — and the four levers that actually move the number.
nouz benchmarks · 02 MayA 14-table café in Vienna. Three years of guessing. Sixty days of nouz. What changed — and what surprisingly didn't.
Lucia Romero · 28 AprThree asks that came up in 100% of customer calls. They shipped together this month. Here's how they look, and why we got two of them wrong on the first try.
nouz team · 22 AprIf you're not ready for nouz yet — here's the spreadsheet template our team used before we built the app. Free, printable, no email required.
Mara Liss · 18 AprRestocking too often kills margin through tied-up cash. Too rarely kills margin through stock-outs. The sweet-spot we found, across 412 indie retailers.
nouz benchmarks · 11 Apr#REF!, =SUM(A:A) on the wrong sheet, manual VAT — every spreadsheet eventually sins. We rank the three deadliest, and tell you which one's actually fine to live with.
Jonas Berger · 04 AprNo drips, no funnels. A short post, hand-written, with one number that should make you think.