Avero Basics: Average Check
Welcome to the Avero guide to understanding Average Check.
What is Average Check?
Average Check is a standard restaurant metric used widely in the hospitality industry, it describes the average per-person spend based on your sales. Average Check can be viewed as a whole for a business, or by meal period or outlet for specificity.
Other terms are Check Average, Per-Person-Average or PPA, or Expected Guest Spend.
What is the difference between Average Check (Covers) and Average Check (Checks)?
Average Check (Covers) is also known as a 'PPA' or Per-Person Average, or called Average Check. This is the average spend for the included revenue per dining guest.
Average Check (Checks) can also be viewed as a Per-Table Average. This is the average spend for the included revenue per check, which is usually an entire table, instead of per guest.
How do I calculate Average Check / How is Average Check calculated?
Revenue / Number of Guests = Average Check
Dividing total revenue by total guest count supplies a revenue-per-guest number referred to as Check Average. You must record cover counts to have this figure available and you don't need to do a thing to calculate it, Avero does this for you and includes it as context on your sales reports! Additionally, several versions of Average Check are available on your reports as a metric. Some of the variations are:
- Gross Average Check: By covers or checks, this figure uses total revenue before discounts and promotions are deducted
- Net Average Check: By covers or checks, this is revenue with discounts and promotions deducted
- Average Check by Employee: In service and contest reports, you can view your Average Check by employee to find where additional training or coaching is needed and to optimize team performance
- Average Check by Menu Item: See your check Average by Category or Item to analyze your menu mix and perform Menu Engineering
Calculating Average Check
Avero does this for you and includes it as context on your sales reports! If you don't see your Check Average listed, click on the Context button to expand or collapse this report summary.
Here is our Item Sales Report with our Average Check highlighted: