Restaurant365

MARCH 5, 2020

From cloud-based POS systems to mobile apps designed to improve employee satisfaction and streamline scheduling, technology is bettering business and changing the landscape of restaurant management. So why is it that alcohol management is lagging? The problem with outdated alcohol management.

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Restaurant Technology Guys

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Restaurants need the latest and most efficient restaurant inventory management tools to ensure a smooth business flow and stay completely stocked and informed. The post Restaurant Inventory Management Technology Improves Efficiency appeared first on Restaurant Technology Guys.

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Culinary Cues

AUGUST 7, 2021

This is defined in articles from local newspapers to the New York Times, from industry magazines and websites to social media, and from industry blogs to podcasts by the dozens – everyone states the problem, points a finger, and portrays the issue as someone else’s doing. www.harvestamericacues.com BLOG. PLAN BETTER – TRAIN HARDER.

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Culinary Cues

AUGUST 9, 2021

Internally, the guest experience owes a great deal to the housekeeping staff, the dining room servers and managers, bartenders and sommelier, dishwashers, prep cooks, bakers and pastry chefs, line cooks, expeditor, sous chef, and chef who holds the lead position in the kitchen. www.harvestamericacues.com BLOG. Restaurant Consulting.

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Sculpture Hospitality

OCTOBER 12, 2021

In our blog, we’ve discussed in detail how using inventory management software to gain better visibility and control over your restaurant and bar inventory can significantly improve business profitability.

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Wasserstrom

JULY 18, 2023

Managing inventory in the foodservice industry is essential for ensuring profitability. Being that, we provide an overview of theft and shrinkage in the context of […] The post Restaurant Inventory Management: Theft & Shrinkage appeared first on The Official Wasserstrom Blog.

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Sculpture Hospitality

APRIL 26, 2021

In our previous blog, we discussed how to calculate your bar inventory usage through the use of a simple calculation and a bar inventory management system.

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7 Shifts

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Before restaurants can record a profit, they need to take several expenses into account—inventory, kitchen equipment, building utilities, and of course, labor. Five Bonus Tips for Managing Multi-Location Labor Cost Percentage Larger restaurant groups have additional routes to a more manageable labor cost percentage.

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Culinary Cues

MAY 8, 2023

If a chef can manage a week or two here or there it will be at that rare time when business is off and even then, chefs are checking their email a few times a day to see what crisis is occurring while they try to relax. A 34-hour work week is unthinkable, a 60 – 80-hour workweek is more like it.

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Hot Schedules

JULY 15, 2021

Mitigating Cost Price Inflation Via Supplier Management. Smart operators take purchasing management further by using electronic trading platforms. Find out more about how your brand can take advantage of these supplier management strategies and more through Fourth’s purchase-to-pay and inventory solution. Related Posts.

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7 Shifts

JANUARY 31, 2024

Managing a restaurant is a delicate routine—if we can even call it a routine. Managers are responsible for nearly every aspect of the restaurant and have to cover a variety of duties. In addition to their main duties, restaurant managers also have to contend with all the unwritten or hidden responsibilities that fall on them.

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Culinary Cues

MARCH 3, 2021

Fairness, equality, respectable pay, balanced lives, manageable menus, fair third-party fee structures, and operations that stand a better chance of earning a profit must be key to a formula for success moving forward. www.harvestamericacues.com – BLOG. PLAN BETTER – TRAIN HARDER. Harvest America Ventures, LLC.

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Culinary Cues

AUGUST 3, 2020

Suddenly, those items that were simply a phone call away from supplier to restaurant are faced with inventory shortages. www.harvestamericacues.com BLOG. As a result, normal menus have been challenged and restaurant storerooms are looking pretty challenged. PLAN BETTER – TRAIN HARDER. Harvest America Ventures, LLC.

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Restaurant365

OCTOBER 16, 2019

When most restaurant owners think about how to manage restaurant inventory, they think of food cost control. For restaurant owners, inventory control is closely related to accounting and food cost management. The nuts and bolts of restaurant inventory management.

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7 Shifts

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Restaurant managers do it all. One minute you’re planning shifts, then checking inventory, then making drinks and bussing tables—and before you know it, your shift is almost over and you haven’t even started your core management tasks. That’s where our restaurant management checklist templates come in.

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Hot Schedules

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Mobility Equals Flexible Ops: Hotel Purchasing & Inventory from Anywhere. Stay Afloat by Automating These 5 Admin Tasks Between payroll, inventory, reporting, and more, it’s easy for a manager to get trapped in the back office, sinking under paperwork. Join the Webinar. Related Posts.

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Culinary Cues

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

If a chef fails to understand this, then he or she will eventually fail in that position. [] A Business Manager. To do this, the chef must understand and practice solid cost control measures such as inventory control, recipe costing, portion control, as well as theft and waste control. www.harvestamericacues.com BLOG.

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Culinary Cues

DECEMBER 17, 2020

There are short-term band aid solutions such as takeout, delivery, or even conversion into retail markets where wine inventories and local necessities take over space once occupied by diners, but they are not a replacement for a steady turn of tables. www.harvestamericacues.com BLOG. Even the best operators are at a loss for solutions.

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Culinary Cues

MAY 13, 2023

Each of those “departments” will require some level of unique kitchen management (sous chef) and specialists to support the uniqueness of function. Remember that being “the chef” will take you away from much of the day-to-day cooking, the adrenaline rush, and the team excitement that drew you to the kitchen in the first place.

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Culinary Cues

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

The chef will likely be the most experienced culinarian with responsibility for the financial operation of the kitchen, menu planning, ordering and inventory control, training, and quality control. www.harvestamericacues.com BLOG. Each have specific duties and all have some shared responsibility. PLAN BETTER – TRAIN HARDER.

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Culinary Cues

MARCH 10, 2022

By far one of the most expensive inventories in a kitchen is china, glassware, and flatware. Introduce them to every cook and server, and every manager and sous chef as an essential member of your team. [] Feed them well, give them breaks. [] Teach your cooks how to properly scrape and stack pots and pans in the dish area.

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Culinary Cues

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Anything worth doing is worth doing world-class whether washing dishes, organizing a cooler or workstation, dicing vegetables, finishing a plate of Kobe beef, taking inventory, or mopping a floor – it’s all important. [] CREATIVITY: Respect means everyone (cooks in particular) has a desire to create something worthy of carrying their signature.

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Restaurant365

APRIL 14, 2020

Successful restaurant operations, in any kind of economy, depend on well-managed restaurant food inventory. No matter what business model your restaurant is operating on, managing your restaurant inventory helps you prevent waste, lower your food cost, and maximize your bottom line.

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Wasserstrom

JULY 11, 2023

Inventory management is a critical component of any restaurant’s success. By effectively managing inventory, restaurants can reduce waste, improve efficiency, and boost profits. In this series of articles, we will explore key aspects of inventory management in restaurants, starting with forecasting demand.

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Sculpture Hospitality

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Are you frustrated by time-consuming and inaccurate inventory counts that aren’t improving the profitability of your bar? We’ve discussed the benefits of using inventory management software on our blog, but today we’ve got an additional tip - organization!

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Culinary Cues

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

Getting that dish just right, controlling costs, managing inventory, meeting budgetary goals, topping yesterdays customer count, clearing the rail of tickets without any re-fires, a complement from customers, top ratings on Trip Advisor or Yelp, or a positive local restaurant review can all be viewed as a competitive opportunity.

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Restaurant365

MARCH 10, 2020

When you think of your restaurant finances, do you think of your inventory? Your restaurant inventory management is an oft-forgotten component of your finances, but the amount of product you have on hand represents a large part of your budget. What is Restaurant Inventory Management? Sitting Inventory.

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Culinary Cues

MARCH 26, 2022

All of the tools are available for inventory control, purchasing systems, cash handling, costing templates, and quality assessment. Social media is very inexpensive, but someone needs to effectively manage it every day and every way. There might be a multitude of reasons, but one that consistently stands out is poor door management.

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Culinary Cues

OCTOBER 19, 2023

This need not be limited to in-house chefs and managers – it might include guest chefs, vendors, wine makers, farmers, etc. This is your most important job as an owner, manager, and chef. Not any more than any other task that chefs, managers, and operators commit to. Does this sound complicated? It’s time for that to change.

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Culinary Cues

DECEMBER 5, 2023

It is one of the most essential positions in the kitchen, operated by a person who is responsible for the single most expensive piece of equipment and one of the costliest inventories (China, flatware, glassware). Wax on, wax off. [] The sous chef is the second in command – the person who is the lead operations manager.

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Restaurant365

JANUARY 28, 2020

Operating a successful restaurant requires restaurant owners and managers to focus not only on managing day-to-day operations, but also evaluating ways to reduce costs and grow future sales. Currently, some of the most powerful restaurant management systems on the market feature predictive tools around food and labor costs.

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Culinary Cues

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Every now and then it is healthy, and yet humbling, to take inventory of what we have done, and where we have been – to dissect those dreams and actions that brought us to where we are, and to relish the opportunities and the challenges that came along the way. It is healthy to take this inventory and then look in a mirror.

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Restaurant Technology Guys

MARCH 24, 2024

In any restaurant, inventory management plays a pivotal role in seamless operations. In this blog post, as Jeremy Julian converses with David Greschler, the Co-founder and CEO of Nomad-Go, we explore how this company is transforming the inventory management of the food service industry with its innovative technology.

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Culinary Cues

MAY 15, 2021

Four-page menus do not reflect business common sense – inventories become unmanageable, waste is much more difficult to manage, the level of expertise required of employees grows exponentially, consistency and quality are challenging, and profit is hard to predict and realize. www.harvestamericacues.com BLOG. CAFÉ Talks Podcast.

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Culinary Cues

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

I get it, I’ve been there, I know the adrenaline behind this and the sense of accomplishment when the rail is free of dupes – it is a race against time, an impossible goal that somehow, we manage to reach. www.harvestamericacues.com BLOG. Mission accomplished. PLAN BETTER – TRAIN HARDER. Harvest America Ventures, LLC.

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Culinary Cues

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Maybe inventory is not part of your job, but it will be if you want to become a chef someday. NETWORK: Make your list of accomplished cooks, chefs, managers, entrepreneurs whom you would like to emulate. www.harvestamericacues.com BLOG. Be eager for a change, I doubt there are many chefs who would turn you down. BE THE SOLUTION.

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Culinary Cues

JANUARY 23, 2023

Measuring how the “carrot rule”, is applied is the job of the coach, manager, or in our case chef. The leader/coach will study the competition, analyze the environment around the organization, inventory the individual and collective talent of his or her players/employees, and structure an approach geared towards grabbing the carrot.

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