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Financial Intelligence for Restaurants

Restaurant Sales Benchmarks That Answer the Hardest Question: Is It You or the Market?

When numbers shift, one question matters most: Is it you – or the market? Black Box Financial Intelligence gives you the answer.

Get access to the industry’s most trusted restaurant sales benchmarks from the Restaurant Performance Network – deep, proprietary sales and traffic performance metrics that come straight from restaurant brands every week.

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Restaurant Sales and Traffic Benchmarks

Why the C-Suite and Finance Teams Trust Black Box Intelligence

Whether you’re managing 30 or 3,000 locations, Financial Intelligence gives you the data clarity and market visibility to lead with confidence. Restaurant sales and traffic benchmarks designed to propel you to your maximum potential.

Is it YOU or the Market?
Measure your brand’s performance against industry leaders and direct peers. However you want to slice sales and traffic, see exactly how you stack up and where you’re falling behind.
Diagnose Financial Issues Early
Identify financial risks before they hit your bottom line. Spot underperforming units, inefficiencies, and margin erosion with direct comparisons and historical context from both your own performance and whoever you consider your competitors.
Forecast with Confidence
Build reliable models using actual performance data from across the industry. Our restaurant sales benchmarks help you anticipate headwinds, plan growth, and communicate with clarity – no guesswork required.
Get to Root Cause
Don’t just track performance – understand it. Pair with the Black Box Intelligence platform to see how workforce dynamics, guest experience, and operational decisions shape your financial outcomes, location by location.

Gold Standard Restaurant Benchmarks

Definitive Traffic and Sales Insight for Restaurants

Understand sales and traffic performance with interactive and customizable dashboards that enable you to uncover exactly what’s impacting your numbers over time.

A data dashboard showing comparative sales by region in a map. Your company has 14.52% total sales, compared to the industry average of 5.30%. The chart also includes weekly, monthly, and quarterly trends.

Our traffic and sales benchmarks are updated weekly, which makes them the most-up-to-date financial market comps available.

Restaurant Sales and Traffic Benchmarks

Slice and Dice However You Need

Food vs Beverage Sales
Sales-Per-Labor-Hour, and Traffic-Per-Labor-Hour
Segment by Day, Week, Month, Quarter, or Year
On vs Off Premise vs Other Sales Types
Day Part Splits
Region and Unit Drilldowns

…and Much More

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“The use of Black Box has helped improve our overall performance in same store sales and guest counts. We share this data weekly with our operators and it pushes them to improve their performance.”

Mike Axiotis, President, Lehigh Valley Restaurant Group dba Red Robin

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“We really enjoy your team and their insight. Your product has made us better operators and franchisors. Really helps to tell a story. Keep the intel coming.”

Joe Hummel, CEO Twin Peaks
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“Financial Intelligence is now one of my NEW BESTIES! The Intelligence dashboard is so easy to navigate but insightful enough to be able engage on executive conversations and get perspective of actions we could take for the brand.”

Alejandra Gonzalez, Marketing Director, Brinker International
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“I really like the competitor reporting. With our brand being in one of the smaller categories (Family Dining), it was very helpful for us to build a customized index that gives us more regional granularity.”

Gordie Galloway, Executive Director, Finance – Dine Brands
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Gold Standard Restaurant Sales and Traffic Benchmarks

Powered by the Restaurant Performance Network

Our insights come from the Restaurant Performance Network – the largest and most reliable source of financial, workforce, and guest data in the industry.

Maximize your potential with the complete one-of-a-kind performance roadmap that provides all the answers.

Never again wonder: “Is it the market or…ME?”.

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Unmatched Restaurant Sales and Traffic Benchmarks

The Meaningful Sales and Traffic Comps Needed to Make Confident Decisions

  • Updated weekly, making them the most up-to-date source of traffic and sales benchmarks available.

  • See your data against other restaurants by industry, segment, cuisine, or however you define “competition”.

  • Drill down into geographies, regions, Nielsen DMAs and units

  • Weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual comparisons

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Find Out if it’s You or the Market

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“We use Black Box Intelligence to stack rank potential franchisees as we look to expand. It really provides us with the agility to go to market effectively.”

Maria Rivera, CEO, Smalls Sliders

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Black Box Intelligence Platform

Financial Intelligence is Our Traffic and Sales Benchmarking Engine. Compound Value by Combining it With the Rest of the BBI Platform.

Performance Intelligence
Correlate financial performance with guest sentiment and workforce insights.
Performance Intelligence
Restaurant Performance Network
Data network powering our platform. The “gold standard” of restaurant performance benchmarking.
Restaurant Network
Workforce Intelligence
Turnover, compensation, and benefits. Definitive benchmarks for workforce management.
Workforce Intelligence
Guest Experience
Guest experience management: Reputation Management, Surveys and AI Analytics.
Guest Intelligence

Performance Intelligence

Fueling the AI Restaurant Command Center With Key Insights

The restaurant sales and traffic benchmarks provided by Financial Intelligence combines with the rest of our platform to fuel our AI Restaurant Command Center – Performance Intelligence.

  • Gain clarity on impact of turnover and compensation on financial performance.

  • Precisely size impact of guest experience and marketing promotions on sales and traffic.

  • Know what’s working, what’s failing, and exactly what to do next.

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