Guides for hotels and restaurants in Ghana

Practical, worked-through advice on the numbers behind your property: profit, break-even, cash, mobile money and food cost.

· 3 min read

Break-Even Occupancy: How Many Rooms Must Your Hotel Sell?

Work out the occupancy and average rate your hotel or guesthouse needs to cover its costs, with a step-by-step example in cedis.

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· 3 min read

Food Cost Percentage and Menu Engineering for Ghanaian Restaurants

How to calculate food cost percentage, set a target, and use menu engineering to decide which dishes to promote, re-price or drop. With examples in cedis.

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· 4 min read

Hotel Profit and Loss Statement: A USALI Guide for Ghana Guesthouses

How to lay out a hotel P&L the USALI way, from department profit to GOP and net profit, with a worked example in cedis for a 12-room guesthouse.

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· 3 min read

How to Get More Direct Bookings for Your Hotel in Ghana

How Ghanaian hotels and guesthouses can win more commission-free direct bookings: your own booking page, mobile money checkout and smart pricing.

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· 4 min read

How to Reconcile Mobile Money Payments and MoMo Fees at Your Hotel

A practical routine for matching MoMo, Telecel Cash and AirtelTigo payments to bookings, catching missing money, and recording gateway fees correctly.

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· 4 min read

Stop Cash Leakage at the Front Desk and Bar

The everyday ways cash disappears in hotels and restaurants, and the controls that stop it: cash drawers per shift, voids with reasons, and an audit trail.

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