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Controllable waste, hot-shelf promises, and the production clock. A multi-unit pizza franchisee, two markets, one fiscal period.
Fiscal P7 2026Brand · anonymized
Findings
$9,327
1 · Action · The reopened store makes 21% of the fleet's controllable waste — and it's still climbing
Store 01 produces 1.75× its demand against a 1.2× fleet norm. Weekly waste has climbed from 3.3% of sales to 17.9% in the eight weeks since reopening, while the other forty-two stores held 3.0–3.4%. Excess over fleet-average runs ~$96K a year. The fleet's one urgent store visit.
$10.84 / $100
2 · Didn't · The fleet makes its waste at ten in the morning and breaks its promises after six at night
Controllable waste peaks at 10:00 — $10.84 per $100 of sales, four times the next-worst hour — while promise breaks peak at 18:00–19:00. Wasted units die on average 129 minutes after production: the morning surplus is gone by lunch and never defends the evening shelf.
12,649
3 · Context · One in five hot-shelf promises broke in P7
81.5% of 68,252 flagged walk-in hot-shelf orders were served without a wait. The break rate climbs all evening: 18% at noon, 24% at 21:00, 32% at 22:00.
60% vs 23%
4 · Context · Two markets, similar waste rates, opposite diseases
Exceeded-chart share runs 60% in the metro market vs 23% in the home market on near-identical waste rates (3.26% vs 3.61%). The metro market's waste is the crew's — the six highest crew-side shares in the fleet are all metro stores. The home market's is mostly the chart's.
5Five stores read Calibration — crews following a chart that over-projectsStore 02 wasted 598 units of its core pepperoni on-chart against 102 beyond it. That is projection work, not a crew conversation; coaching the compliant burns credibility.5 stores
6The fleet's worst promise-breaker reads 'In range' — the rubric has a blind spotStore 12 keeps just 52.6% of its promises — the fleet's worst — in every hour of the day, but reads 'In range' because the thin-shelf test requires below-fleet waste. The playbook commits a promise floor to the rubric so the tab stops passing it.52.6% kept
7Eight benchmark stores win both ends — by producing 1.1× demand, not by forecasting betterThe benchmark eight face the same hot chart as everyone (demand-to-chart 0.65 vs 0.66) and simply build less of it, holding break rates flat through the evening — 8.3% vs the rest's 21.8%. The best store runs 1.16% waste with 93.0% of promises kept.1.13× vs 1.24×
8Bringing the five worst stores to fleet-average waste is worth ≈$199K a yearTop-5 excess ran $15,281 in P7. Part crew, part chart — the playbook matches six different conversations to six different problems, because 'reduce waste' is never the coaching line.≈$199K / yr
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