The Whole Week — Restaurant Operations Spreadsheet System: Staff Schedule, Inventory & Par Sheet, Tip Pool Calculator, Opening Checklist & Dashboard (Excel & Google Sheets)

The Whole Week is one linked Excel and Google Sheets workbook that runs a small restaurant's entire week, built for owners, managers and shift leads who are tired of juggling five separate sheets. Inside: a Schedule tab for 10 staff across 7 days with automatic row and day totals and labour cost by person; an Inventory & Par tab covering 20 proteins, produce, dry goods and bar staples with par level, on hand, need-to-order amounts and automatic ORDER, LOW and OK reorder flags plus a live count of items to order today; a Cash & Tips Log that turns each night's gross sales, cash tips and card tips into a tip pool after tip-out and a fair per-server share; a Prep & Opening checklist of 15 tasks across 7 days with daily completion percentages so missed opening jobs are visible, not argued about; and a Dashboard that pulls total hours, total labour cost, items flagged to order, total sales, total tip pool, average per-server share, average opening completion and labour cost as a percentage of sales into one live view with plain-English notes on what to watch. Every total is a real formula — you type only in the light-blue input cells and the whole workbook recalculates. It comes pre-filled with one realistic sample week for a small New Orleans bistro so you can see exactly how it works, a one-page quickstart guide explains every tab, and clearing the sample takes two minutes: delete the blue cells and type your own week. Frozen panes, print setup and colour-coded formatting are already done, so it works the day you download it — no software to install, no subscription, just a restaurant schedule template, inventory tracker, tip calculator and operations dashboard in a single file.