Optimum Control

JANUARY 31, 2023

These days, your back-of-house (BOH) staff is tasked with more than just cooking recipes and creating plates of art. On top of the everyday tasks it takes to run a restaurant kitchen, your BOH team is responsible for inventory management – the key essential to running any restaurant.

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

With a detailed inventory of restaurant assets and accurate tracking of their usage, managers can make informed decisions around scheduling preventative maintenance tasks, budgeting, and planning for equipment repairs or replacements.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 20, 2024

Partnering with November Five, Le Pain Quotidien launched Alain.AI, a tool that can be called the world's first digital twin of a chef-founder and used to help with menu development, recipe standardization, and culinary innovation. "As We are still in the process of continuously improving it. However, they embraced Alain.AI

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Optimum Control

JANUARY 20, 2021

Are you currently using spreadsheets or pen and paper for managing your inventory? We know that making the switch to inventory management software for your restaurant can seem daunting, but the benefits make it worth the effort. What can inventory management software do for my restaurant? Let’s dive in!

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Standardize Recipes. It’s crucial your chefs are using consistent recipe measurements because it’s an easy way to maintain accurate plate costs. To avoid over measuring, try using portion cups to ensure recipes are made the same no matter which chef is working that day. This includes labor and inventory.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Keep an Eye on the Inventory There’s no substitute for taking regular inventory – not just knowing what’s been ordered, but what’s in stock, what condition it’s in, and how long it’s been in the restaurant. Got a few extra gallons of milk about to hit the expiration date?

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 12, 2023

Merchants use the collected data to manage sales, generate labor reports, track inventory and even keep an eye on customer reviews. By evaluating recipes, portion sizes and inventory levels, for instance, opportunities to cut back expenses are illuminated. The answer lies in restaurant analytics.

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Optimum Control

MAY 27, 2021

When you’re unable to open your doors to the public, whether that be due to private events, or renovations, you may be asking yourself “what do I do with all of my inventory?” If you look at your restaurant’s inventory management software, how much of your inventory is simply sitting there unused and going bad?

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Sculpture Hospitality

AUGUST 6, 2021

The food and beverage inventory in your restaurant or bar is your biggest asset. Yet so many kitchens and bars are loaded with products that are never used in recipes or never sold - that’s liquid cash that’s eating into your profitability.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 19, 2022

Prioritize Accurate Recipe Costing. Maximizing recipe efficiency is a moving target that is specific to your restaurant. It requires a careful examination of your recipes, your team’s prep efficiency, and menu item prices. Train Staff on the Importance of Restaurant Inventory Control. Take Advantage of QR Codes.

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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

MAY 10, 2022

Why should you and your staff spend hours counting inventory, auditing invoices, and combing through contracts? Whether you’re taking inventory, ordering supplies, or managing the supply chain – it all costs time and labor. The process of managing your food costs can be time consuming. Leverage Purchasing Data.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Businesses in the food service industry are primarily adopting these advanced POS systems to streamline the communication between waitstaff and kitchen staff, inventory tracking, and improving team management. These software are specially designed for QSRs to manage inventory, online ordering, express billing, recipe management and more.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 19, 2020

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? Food cost is $2.69.

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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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Culinary Digital

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

This concise ingredient list simplifies inventory management, maintaining tighter control over stock levels. Optimized Inventory Control A limited menu presents a valuable opportunity to precisely forecast ingredient needs, leading to more efficient stock management and significantly reducing food wastage.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 11, 2024

Finding the balance between innovation and tradition is the secret recipe for enduring success in the evolving dining industry. Leveraging technologies such as robotic food preparation and AI-powered inventory management systems can streamline processes and optimize resource utilization.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Sending stats on recipe distribution and average cook times. Product & Inventory Tracking. There also are monitoring systems that can track your inventory. Automatically turning off equipment during scheduled downtime or at the end of the day. Automatically switching modes (i.e. Viewing real-time stats and statuses.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Tapping into up-to-date restaurant technology lets operators instantly pull the most recent supplier costs when playing with various theoretical recipes. With a recipe costing tool, operators can easily substitute ingredients, change amounts of ingredients, or look at paper costs in a theoretical view. Reinforce Employee Training.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 7, 2021

To cater to these situations, restaurants should have a digitized checklist or a recipe management software tool. Recipe management software, on the other hand, standardizes menu items and monitors dish costs. As far as food waste is concerned, manual inventory monitoring is usually one of the main culprits.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 27, 2020

With the help of historical sales reports and known weather conditions, they can calculate how much raw material stock they will have to actually buy and eliminate the risk of spending extra to maintain inventory. Smart Inventory Management. Because AI keeps a close watch on inventory, it can help theft and waste be avoided.

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Total Food Service

OCTOBER 22, 2023

A POS can help you stay on top of your restaurant’s finances by calculating the cost of individual plates; and automatically transferring sales data into your inventory system. This enables you to update inventory with ease and save time on back of house operations. How will this technology improve the customer experience?

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 18, 2023

These will become as essential to a restaurant as their secret recipes, holding the key to understanding guests’ behaviors and catering to their preferences. In the back of the house, AI can automatically anticipate inventory shortages and suggest quantities for restocking that are consistent with predicted reservations.

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Lavu

DECEMBER 20, 2019

You can keep accurate track of inventory and manage the. Calculating Recipe and Sub Recipe Cost. Your recipe cost is the cost of the ingredients for each serving of a dish. Sometimes it is easier to calculate the recipe. In some cases, you may also have a sub recipe. Recipe cost (4 servings) = $16.91.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 2, 2022

But with rising food and supply costs, how can operators keep menu prices low when they have to pay more for inventory? Technomic also reported that 45 percent of consumers say they usually pick restaurants with lower prices. Run LTO’s to Reduce Food Waste. Do you have fruit nearing its expiration date or meat about to go bad?

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 30, 2023

Automating these procedures can save about an hour of labor per day while improving the customer experience and equipment uptime, protecting inventory and more. Sharing recipe updates through thumb drives is a common one. It also relieves employee stress and helps prevent burnout in a high-turnover environment.

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JAMIX

JUNE 1, 2023

Whether you run a restaurant, catering business, or any other food service establishment, managing operations effectively can be a challenging task.

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JAMIX

JUNE 1, 2023

Whether you run a restaurant, catering business, or any other food service establishment, managing operations effectively can be a challenging task.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 16, 2023

POS systems offer a multitude of benefits for businesses, including: Streamlined operations by automating various tasks such as sales transactions, inventory management and reporting. Enhanced accuracy through minimized human errors in order processing and inventory tracking.

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Food Safety Tech

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Optimizing shelf life for product inventory. This information empowers businesses to optimize inventory management, implement dynamic pricing strategies and reduce waste (and associated costs) by ensuring products are sold or consumed before expiration. Elevating the customer experience. IoT can also improve the customer experience.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 1, 2024

Creating strategic LTOs is a great way to keep customers interested each season on the brand, but it's also important to be strategic about the recipes you create. This allows suppliers to anticipate demand and make necessary adjustments to their inventory and production schedules accordingly.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 14, 2024

” If your busy pizzeria or pizza chain faces challenges like incorrect online hours or out of stock inventory resulting in the “internal issues” cancellation reason, consider utilizing a menu management tool to update your hours and menu across all online platforms from one place. percent of total order cancellations.

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the CAMBRO blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Implement a Comprehensive Inventory System A well-organized inventory system is the backbone of any successful effort to reduce food waste. Embrace Nose-to-Tail and Root-to-Stem Cooking Encourage chefs to embrace nose-to-tail and root-to-stem cooking techniques, which involve using the whole animal or vegetable in recipes.

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Lithos POS

JUNE 3, 2024

Here are some SOPs commonly used in the food business Food Preperation Food Safety and Hygiene Customer Service Cleaning and Maintenance Opening and Closing Procedures Employee Training and Management Inventory Management Financial Transactions Emergency Procedures Implementing this guideline will help ensure quality across various business areas.

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Modern Restaurant Management

OCTOBER 18, 2023

In the kitchen, there’s a POS, scheduling devices, recipe books, inventory tools and more. Consolidate Your Tech Stack Although technology can function as a positive tool, when many systems are used for different processes, it can become overwhelming.

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Lavu

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Keep Track of Your Inventory. Busy with other tasks and responsibilities, restaurant owners and managers don’t always reconcile inventory as often as they should. If you can’t serve your favorite recipe at a profit, it might be better not to serve it at all. Think Before Ordering. Start Serving Daily Specials.

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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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