Read the numbers. Fix the operation. Lead the team.
Practice the decisions you make every week: 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.
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.
One case. Five decisions. A result you have to explain.
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
- Free P&L Fundamentals
About $24 a month, billed once a year.
- Everything in monthly
- 100 AI-scored interactions each billing period
- Best value for steady practice
- Free P&L Fundamentals
Straight answers.
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 resets every billing period.
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.
Can I cancel?
Yes. Billing runs through Whop, and you can cancel your membership there at any time. 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. ManagerIQ does not ask for your employer’s data. The cases use a fictional restaurant, and you should not paste real company or employee information into your responses.
Your next promotion is a P&L conversation.
Start with the free P&L lesson, then take on your first operating case.