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How to Avoid the Top Seven Restaurant Inventory Management Mistakes

Modern Restaurant Management

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 to Calculate and Improve Your Bar’s Profit Margin

7 Shifts

It just goes to show how important drink pricing and cost management are to maximizing profits. Once you have that total, subtract all of your costs, such as labor, inventory, rent, utilities, and other operating expenses. Bars that effectively manage their inventory and reduce waste tend to maintain higher margins.

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MRM Research Roundup: Year-End 2020 Edition

Modern Restaurant Management

While restaurants looked after frontline workers, diners lended their own efforts to support restaurants and their staff in 2020, offering donations, gift cards, tickets towards online classes and merchandise purchases. After the holidays, focus on inventory management improvements and keep inventory lean.

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Restaurant Weighing Scales Guide: Why You Need Them in Your Restaurant  

Modern Restaurant Management

These weighing scales are designed to take the guesswork out of food measurement and ensure controlled costs and better inventory management. By making sure that you dish out properly sized portions, you can save money and manage your inventory better. A receiving scale is used to weigh merchandise when it arrives.

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Leveraging Relationships to Build a Better Bar Program

Goliath Consulting

Your bar gets free product to try out different flavors or drop the price on name brand spirits, the distributor keeps their inventory fluid and product shipping. Did you know many brands/distributors will offer special pricing if their spirit is featured in a specialty cocktail?

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2024 Outlook: Restaurant Trends and Challenges, Part One

Modern Restaurant Management

On Menu Ingredients We predict the rise of “bougie” ingredients like caviar, lobster and truffle popping up at restaurants at more affordable prices and in more casual settings like fast casuals and QSRs. The impact of these technological shifts is multifaceted.

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How Walmart Got Its Hands on the Coolest Pantry Brands

EATER

Known for its “Every Day Low Prices,” the chain is the country’s dominant grocery retailer. Jing had to invest in an EDI system, or electronic data interchange, to communicate inventory and billing information with Walmart, something many start-ups don’t have. It can be a risk to lower prices, but for Bachan’s, that risk has paid off.

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