A real shop, in Cortado
This is The Reading Room — 58 days in.
Everything below is read live from a working account. Nothing on this page is a mock-up, and you don't need to sign in to look at it.
Taken
$64,464
Last 58 days
Orders
7,435
From the till
Average order
$8.67
Real, not estimated
Where it all comes from
One sticker, four buttons.
Everything on this page is built out of staff tapping one of four buttons on their own phone. No app, no login, four seconds. Try it — it's the real thing.
559 counts and 910 sales went into this shop.
Whole milk
Walk-in, left shelf
6 L
Below par of 10 — added to Thursday's order, 2 cases.
Tap one — it's the whole job.
Thursday morning
What this shop is short of, right now.
| Item | Have | Par | Supplier |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12oz cups | 810.79 ea | 900 ea | — |
| Whole milk | 0 L | 36 L | — |
| Oat milk | 12 L | 30 L | — |
| Croissants | 23 ea | 30 ea | — |
| House espresso beans | 4.15 kg | 9 kg | — |
| Pain au chocolat | 22 ea | 24 ea | — |
Nobody wrote this list. It's what the counts add up to.
The one nobody can do by hand
What each drink actually earns.
Flat white
96% margin
Sells at $4.75, costs $0.18
Oat flat white
96% margin
Sells at $5.25, costs $0.19
Latte
96% margin
Sells at $5.00, costs $0.20
Cappuccino
96% margin
Sells at $4.85, costs $0.19
Americano
96% margin
Sells at $3.75, costs $0.17
Vanilla latte
94% margin
Sells at $5.75, costs $0.36
Costed at what the ingredients last actually cost, read off scanned invoices.
When the inspector comes
Ninety days of fridge checks, on one page.
Walk-in
Last checked 9/12/2026
Every reading in range
Milk fridge
Last checked 9/12/2026
1 out of range, each explained
Display case
Last checked 9/12/2026
Every reading in range
Freezer
Last checked 9/12/2026
Every reading in range
The bit that stings
What went in the bin, in money.
Yours could look like this in a week.
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