Sculpture Hospitality

MAY 18, 2021

Restaurant inventory management is a process that helps your business monitor the food and beverage products that you have coming in and going out of your restaurant on a weekly, monthly or quarterly basis.

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Sculpture Hospitality

MARCH 21, 2023

As a business owner or manager, one of your top priorities is ensuring that your inventory is properly managed. Without accurate and up-to-date inventory records, it's impossible to make informed decisions about purchasing, pricing, and sales.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 10, 2022

Why should you and your staff spend hours counting inventory, auditing invoices, and combing through contracts? And don’t even get me started on the purchasing data your restaurant is producing all day every day. It can take hours to manually figure out things like recipe costs, ingredient prices and inventory counts.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 6, 2020

Optimize Inventory. This is also a time to experiment with ways to preserve ingredients through techniques like pickling, smoking or canning to extend the shelf life of the inventory, as well as testing out new trends in fermentation. Let’s say you operate a burger shop with beginning inventory valued at $5,000.

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Sculpture Hospitality

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Proper food and beverage inventory management is one of the most important processes that any restaurant can implement into their backend operations. That’s because poor ordering decisions lead to wasted money.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 18, 2022

Knowing where you stand financially on a real-time basis will help you to not overspend when sales are lower, while simultaneously allowing you to purchase more when the sales warrant it. How to Use Key Metrics for Proper Inventory. Mastering how to forecast your inventory is just the first step, you almost must control it.

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Lavu

MARCH 9, 2020

Inventory management is at the heart of running a successful restaurant business. With food ingredients costing a dime and requiring frequent replenishment, a restaurant inventory management system is necessary. It ensures that your chefs and cooks keep track of the available ingredients and can tell how much more inventory is needed.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 20, 2022

Restaurants can then adjust their food purchasing decisions accordingly, reducing their spending amounts as well as their contribution to food waste. Integrated Inventory and Purchasing. This kind of predictive technology can be used by restaurants in so many ways: to manage inventory, staffing, menu pricing, and more.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 14, 2021

Due to higher demand for off-premises dining, suppliers of disposable products have reported supply chain issues and have even run out of inventory –resulting in increased costs and price fluctuations. This can be reflected in the quality of to-go packaging you purchase. Secure Inventory and PPE. Hello, money maker!

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

What restaurants can do, however, is re-think how their direct food supply is managed – from transport to inventory control. About 17 percent of food is wasted at the consumer level, and yet many restaurants don’t even know how much of their inventory is going to landfill each month. It’s the cost of waste.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Operators need to have a precise understanding of what they purchase, what they sell, and any variance between those amounts, so that they can identify where waste can be controlled. Keeping a better eye on the inventory and using the most ripe perishables first is the first step in minimizing food waste.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 14, 2022

One study found that internal employee theft is responsible for 75 percent of inventory shortages and about 4 percent of restaurant sales. There are all kinds of different types of restaurant theft, ranging from food and inventory, theft at the register and checkout counter, external grease theft, time theft and employee product theft.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 15, 2021

Inventory stock changed significantly. Lavu, the restaurant technology services company, estimates 42 percent of food purchases are made online. These non-paper menus can be changed swiftly, allowing restaurants to remove items when inventory lags and promote items that have higher margin.

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

In order to reduce cost, waste, and optimize inventory, the process begins with planning and forecasting. This is important because the material shifts in consumer behavior are largely associated with how they choose to discover, purchase, and receive their goods from restaurants. Planning and Forecasting. Tracking Supply Chain Flow.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Keep Inventory Low If restaurant sales are not covering expenses or if the business has extra inventory in walk-in or dry storage that just isn’t moving, it’s a good time to start trimming back inventory. By minimizing the menu options, a unit can limit the amount of inventory needed to order each week.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Make Inventory a Best Practice, Not an Afterthought. It’s one thing to know you should be doing daily inventory on your top 10 items and a full weekly inventory, and it’s another thing entirely to actually do it. Better inventory ensures each location can order more accurately for their needs.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 21, 2022

The key is to make the right decisions around inventory and pricing at the right times—and having the right technology can make all the difference. Back-office technology centralizes, automates, and improves operating processes related to purchasing, accounts payable, inventory management, recipe and menu engineering, labor scheduling,?and

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

The data to analyze with food is the following: food sales, food costs, sales mixture, food inventory, cost of goods sold, menu pricing, invoice reviews for accuracy of pricing, stock on hand, beginning and end of day protein counts, and daily sold items. Purchasing of Foods. Each day, the chef purchases more food.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 20, 2020

Other emergency orders have relaxed restrictions on purchases of alcohol inventory on credit or consignment, which may prove crucial to smaller restaurants. Off-premise liquor stores have also benefited from emergency orders allowing more expanded delivery and curb side pick-up options for package alcohol orders that will expire.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

To fully utilize the food you have purchased, you should track the waste in your restaurant. From there, you will be able to compare the quantity of waste in comparison to the size of the original inventory order. This will help to identify where cuts can be made, and how much money is being leaked through this channel.

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Chef's Deal

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Restaurant inventory management is key to a restaurant’s success because proper inventory management boosts kitchen productivity and profitability and prevents food wastage. Whether you’re a seasoned restaurateur or just starting, this guide will illuminate the nuances of managing your inventory efficiently.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 13, 2021

For example, if you have separate software vendors for inventory, labor and scheduling, purchasing, and other operational tasks, you may be able to bring everything together into a single back-of-house platform. Is it better drive thru tech or smart inventory tools to keep tighter controls on food costs?

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 13, 2021

Personalization has even been deemed the holy grail for restaurants, especially for tech-savvy diners who are used to brands like Amazon remembering their past orders and automatically making recommendations based on preferences and purchasing patterns. But what if you aren’t the fast-food giants of the world?

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Fifty-three percent of those respondents said they have reduced their cost of goods sold (COGS) through better inventory tracking of key ingredients. In addition, AI can be used to automate and improve many back-of-house processes such as sales forecasting, purchasing, inventory, scheduling, and accounting.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 29, 2022

A digital sensor detects a temperature reduction inside a freezer due to overfilled inventory. The sensor creates a text-based descriptive insight and prompts a physical action from an employee—such as to move the overfilled inventory to a different freezer where there is more space.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 4, 2021

A more limited menu, even if it changes time-to-time, for the short term, could make the purchasing process more manageable for a restaurant and increase their ability to fulfill the necessary, more limited products required. to better determine supply requirements and purchasing frequency. Understanding Consumer Demand.

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Bill Marler

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Retailers and distributors should immediately pull the recalled lot from their inventory and shelves. Nine sick people reported purchasing the ground beef from ShopRite locations in Connecticut, New Jersey, and New York. Seven of these people specifically reported purchasing 80% lean ground beef products.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 1, 2024

He believes that it's underutilized in the restaurant industry and can discuss the benefits it has for inventory management and food waste reduction, and why it’s a secret tech weapon that more brands should utilize. Vise spoke with Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine about the opportunity for RFID in restaurants.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 14, 2020

Save your customers a trip to grocery store, sell off inventory, increase cash flow, and attract new customers during COVID-19. Plan to sell your existing inventory before you add more. This will work to decrease spoilage and provide room for a new shipment of inventory better aligned with your new operational structure.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 10, 2022

An app for things like scheduling, clocking, inventory, and checklists is becoming more popular and giving restaurants a competitive edge in a tight labor market. Front of house tools will take a backseat in ghost kitchens while BOH will continue to manage inventory, purchasing, scheduling, recipe costing, and more.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 7, 2022

By following the first in, first out (FIFO) methodology of food inventory management, you reduce waste and ensure that your food stays safe and tastes good. If you decide to purchase restaurant equipment, consider these factors: Ownership costs (TCO). Implement an efficient inventory system. Dimensions and functionality.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Some 53 percent of adults say that purchasing takeout or delivery is an essential part of the way they live , and 68 percent say they’re more likely to use a third-party delivery service now than they were before the pandemic. These food delivery apps have become a standard part of everyday life.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 26, 2022

Restaurants that integrate AI into their POS systems benefit from detailed analytical data generated by the system, which informs management about the utilization of inventory items, resulting in significant cost savings. Underutilization or product expiration can be avoided by tracking and purchasing items based on their use.

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Lavu

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

This approach helps increase sales of high-margin items, reduce waste and inventory costs, and ultimately improve profit margins. Manage Inventory and Food Waste Inventory management is crucial for optimizing restaurant profit margins. There are various methods to enhance inventory management for maximizing profit margins: 1.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 11, 2024

Leveraging technologies such as robotic food preparation and AI-powered inventory management systems can streamline processes and optimize resource utilization. Gen Z and Millennial customers who believe a brand cares about its impact on people and the planet are 27 percent likelier to purchase from that brand than older generations are.

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

If inventory is laid out in a way that isn’t intuitive, your employees will take longer to take inventory or take it less often than they should. Inventory management, automated reporting, one-click purchasing, and more are all ways you can look at streamlining the daily tasks employees face.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 14, 2022

” I can sit here all day and talk about using the right ingredients or cutting back on unnecessary purchases. Think of all the hours you spend counting inventory, placing orders, and managing your accounts payable. I’m asking myself “If I was a restaurant owner, what would I want someone to tell me?”

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