Analyzing your restaurant’s food cost is a crucial part in running an effective food-service business.

Ordering strategies, waste reduction are things that can be addressed when you have better visibility into food cost optimization.

Food Cost = % of Total restaurant sales spent on food product

Ideal Quick Service Restaurant (QSR) food cost is 25–30%, that of a Table Service Restaurant (TSR) is 30–35% depending on the style of restaurant service and mix of sales.

Some best practices include;

1. Track food cost trends against item sales
Comparing food costs to what is actually sold can provide insight into items…

“Phew, see you next week,” you say to your hard-cover notebook as you place it on the pile on the shelf. The notebook where you record your entire inventory, every once a week.

If you’re doing inventory like this, using spreadsheets or recording manually on a notebook; then inventory has become more of torture than a routine task.

Despite having done it for weeks, months, if you are doing inventory in this manner then chances are you are making some process-related mistakes listed below that are affecting your bottom-line.

Here are the major mistakes:-

#1 Ignoring unused inventory

Your pantry…

Last week we looked at why inventory is necessary. This week, we shall elaborate just how to make inventory a very smooth process.

The good news is, there’s more than one way to take inventory. In fact, you probably must be taking or have taken inventory at one point in your business, only that you dread the process… in which case, your process is the problem.

Do not worry, you already have all the tools to make your process better; so let’s show you some proven methods to make your inventory work for you.

#1 Stay Organized

With the day-to-day…

Answering the WHY.

Let’s run through some facts:

- Running a restaurant costs more than it used to.

- Food costs are rising day-in day-out

- If you run a restaurant or any other food-service business, chances are that you are spending a third of your profit on food costs.

- Inventory is a tedious task … but only because you do not have our tips and tricks on how to do it right.

Some facts we forget:

- Inventory taking is a very crucial process in the running of your business.

So now let’s look at some reasons why…

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