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How Can I Streamline Inventory Management?

Modern Restaurant Management

Taking inventory is one of the most tedious processes in restaurant operations. Chefs spend countless hours counting inventory, purchasing new ingredients, and tracking down more cost-effective substitutions for products that are either cancelled or out of stock. Recipe Costing. Prevent Shortages.

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How to Avoid the Top Seven Restaurant Inventory Management Mistakes

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Inefficient restaurant inventory management practices, improper storage, gaps in inventory logs, theft, and waste can cause even the most successful kitchens to struggle or fail. Below are the top seven inventory management mistakes restaurants are making, and how to correct them.

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How POS Inventory Tools Cut Costs in Restaurants

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Running a restaurant is tough, and poor inventory management can make it even harder. That’s where POS inventory tools step in to help. Automation : Handles tasks like purchase orders and pricing updates, saving time and minimizing errors. Alerts : Notifies you of low stock or expiring items to avoid waste and disruptions.

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What Can I Do to Reduce My Restaurant Supply and Labor Costs?

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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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Food Costing Tips for Delivery

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Step 1: Cost out your specific delivery inventory items. Next, create a standard deliver recipe. Here’s a signature menu item, pulled pork sandwich (to stay): This sandwich includes three sub-recipes (in blue), which all contain other recipes, plus a purchased bun. What does a delivery fork cost?

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The Right Technology Can Help Restaurants Make Key Decisions in Uncertain Times

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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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Tech to Trash Can – How Technology Is Redefining Food Waste

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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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