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Manager workbooks

The Restaurant Manager's Toolkit

Practical workbooks for turning restaurant standards into training, SOPs, labor control, food cost control, daily readiness, employee standards, and follow-up.

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Built for managers who need tools.

The Toolkit is where the standard becomes usable on the floor, in the office, during pre-shift, during training, and inside manager review.

  • Training trackers.
  • SOP builders.
  • Scheduling and labor tools.
  • Food cost and waste logs.
  • Employee standard and documentation forms.
Practical over theoretical

The goal is not paperwork. The goal is consistency.

Each workbook is designed to give managers a place to write, track, review, coach, and improve. The forms are not decoration. They are the structure that helps the restaurant prove what is happening.

A manager becomes more effective when expectations are documented, repeated, trained, and reviewed.

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The completed Toolkit collection.

Each workbook below uses the same current cover shown throughout the site, downloads, and bundle advertisements.

Toolkit titles

Workbooks for daily management and accountability.

Restaurant SOP & Station Operations Builder has a ready-to-customize companion library.

Restaurant SOP & Station Operations Builder remains the builder and control workbook. Volumes 1–3 now provide 525 procedures to customize, approve, train, verify, and maintain through that system.

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Complete • Gravity Elite v2.0 • Founding Year Access

Employee Training & SOP Tracker

A Practical Workbook for Onboarding, Staff Development, SOP Training, and Accountability

A 257-page Gravity Elite manager workbook for onboarding, role training, task mastery, trainer calibration, SOP tracking, coaching, employee development, certification, and fair follow-up. A separate implementation and refill kit is now available in Fulfillment.

257 published interior pages

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Complete • Gravity Elite v2.0 • Founding Year Access

Labor Control & Scheduling Planner

A Practical Workbook for Staffing, Coverage, Labor Percent Control, and Manager Accountability

Gravity Elite v2.0 keeps the 371-page publishable labor-control interior while strengthening fair scheduling, employee-record privacy, labor decisions, manager readiness, and implementation discipline. The downloadable file also includes a separate Founding Year feedback page that is not part of the published interior.

371 published interior pages

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Complete • Founding Year Access

Restaurant SOP & Station Operations Builder

A Practical Workbook for Station Standards, Procedures, Checklists, and Operations

A large working system for creating station standards, SOPs, checklists, posters, procedures, and consistent operating expectations across the restaurant.

258 published interior pages

The Gravity Restaurant SOP Library Volume 1 cover
Complete

The Gravity Restaurant SOP Library - Volume 1

Guest-Facing & Management SOPs

Ready-to-customize SOPs for guest arrival, table service, food running, to-go, bar, guest recovery, POS, cash control, shift leadership, conduct, and security.

369 pages • 8.5 × 11 interior format

The Gravity Restaurant SOP Library Volume 2 cover
Complete

The Gravity Restaurant SOP Library - Volume 2

Kitchen, Safety & Facility SOPs

Ready-to-customize SOPs for receiving, storage, prep, cook line, food safety, allergens, dish operations, cleaning, equipment, facility, emergencies, and recovery.

370 pages • 8.5 × 11 interior format

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Digital Edition Available

The Gravity Restaurant SOP Library - Volume 3

Specialty, Advanced & Hard-to-Find SOPs

Specialty SOPs for catering, mobile units, drive-thru, commissaries, buffets, specialized food-safety processes, delivery platforms, uncommon equipment, regional continuity, sustainability, multi-unit governance, technology, automated service, shared kitchens, and certified programs.

Digital Edition Available • 525 SOPs total

Volumes 1–3 Digital Editions Available

The Gravity Restaurant SOP Library — Volumes 1–3

525 SOPs across the current digital library.

Use Restaurant SOP & Station Operations Builder to build and manage the SOP system. The current Gravity Restaurant SOP Library contains 525 SOPs.

525 SOPs

Food Cost, Waste & Inventory Control Workbook cover
Complete • Founding Year Access

Food Cost, Waste & Inventory Control Workbook

A Practical Workbook for Food Cost, Waste, Inventory, Ordering, Prep Planning, and Manager Accountability

A working food-cost system for inventory, ordering, prep, waste, portion control, storage, rotation, and manager accountability.

318 published interior pages

Hiring, Interviewing & Employee Retention Tracker — Elite cover
Complete - Founding Year Access

Hiring, Interviewing & Employee Retention Tracker

A Practical Restaurant Manager's Workbook for Hiring People Who Care and Keeping the Right Employees

A 208-page Gravity Elite workbook for job-related hiring evidence, structured interviews, early retention, workforce follow-up, and a 30-day installation plan.

208 published interior pages

Guest Service, Complaints & Recovery Workbook — Gravity Elite cover
Complete • Gravity Elite • Founding Year Access

Guest Service, Complaints & Recovery Workbook

A Practical Restaurant Manager’s Workbook for Guest Experience, Complaint Tracking, and Service Recovery

A 191-page manager workbook for real-time recovery judgment, complaint evidence, follow-up, pattern correction, and verified operating improvement.

191 pages • 35 chapters • 20 recovery scenarios

Manager Readiness & Leadership Development Workbook — Elite cover
Digital Review Edition Available • Final approval pending

Manager Readiness & Leadership Development Workbook

A Practical Workbook for Developing Managers Before They Are Trusted With People and Standards

A three-piece digital review edition for manager trainees, Owner/GM instructors, and 30–60 day follow-up. Final editorial approval and retail preparation remain separate from digital access.

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Complete • Available Now • Founding Year Access

Restaurant Bar, Beverage & Pour Cost Control

A Practical Workbook for Bar Inventory, Drink Standards, Recipe Costing, Pour Control, Beverage Profitability, Staff Training, and Manager Accountability

The complete beverage-control foundation for recipes, standards, pour discipline, costing, profitability, inventory, variance, training, sales, and manager verification.

347 published interior pages

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Complete • Available Now • Founding Year Access

Restaurant Bar, Beverage Inventory & Ordering Book

A Practical Working Book for Bar Inventory Counts, Pars, Ordering, Receiving, Vendor Costs, Beverage Purchasing, and Manager Control

The recurring operating book for inventory counts, pars, Temporary Targets, ordering, receiving, vendor costs, purchasing, weekly records, monthly reviews, and annual closeout.

119 published interior pages

Restaurant AI Prompts & Systems Workbook — updated digital edition
Updated digital edition

Restaurant AI Prompts & Systems Workbook — Digital Edition

A Living Copy-and-Paste AI Operating Companion for The Gravity Restaurant Leadership System

The updated digital Gravity workbook includes 215 practical prompts organized for restaurant management, operations, problem solving, and connected Gravity workflows.

Build the standard

Choose the right starting point for your restaurant.

Compare the fifteen complete operating systems along with focused books, workbooks, and the three-volume SOP Library—525 SOPs. Every current digital release remains available through the Founding Year.

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