Dairy can carry a disproportionate share of a pizzeria's cost of goods, and its price is set well outside your restaurant. Watching dairy as its own category means a market move registers as a specific, explainable change — not as an unexplained point of food cost you find at the close.
Third-party fees, packaging, and driver labor all sit between a delivery order and the margin it produces. Seeing that channel's revenue against its own cost tells you whether growing it is worth what it takes — before you build the business around it.
Commodity prices aren't negotiable, but prep labor, portioning, and waste are. Reporting labor inside prime cost, next to food cost, shows the trade-offs between them clearly enough to act on.
Pizzerias multiply. Every location reports on the same categories and periods, so you can compare shops directly and roll everything into a group or entity view without maintaining a separate consolidation.
