How Does Your Restaurant Stack Up to These Industry Standards?

Are you sizzling or fizzling?

The restaurant business has never been for the faint of heart (or stomach), but in this era of Twitter, Uber, and every “Uber for _____” app under the sun, it’s enough to make even veteran restaurateurs’ stomachs churn--and not from the Romaine lettuce!

But one advantage of running a restaurant in the smartphone era is the ease in which you can obtain boiling pots of tasty data that can tell you if you’re doing something right and wrong, and what that "something" is.

One of the most important data points to track is your Average Order Value (AOV), which is the average total bill for your customers. A higher AOV means diners are ordering more items in one sitting, and every restaurateur worth their (literal) salt knows that it’s loads more cost-effective — and therefore, more profitable — to get your existing customers to order more than it is to get new customers to order anything at all.

Another advantage of all this access to data?…