Restaurant Purchase Orders: How to Control What Gets Ordered, Delivered & Paid For
RESTAURANT PURCHASING + INVENTORY CONTROLS Restaurant Purchase Orders: How to Control What Gets Ordered, Delivered & Paid For Restaurant purchase orders create a financial control between deciding what the restaurant needs and eventually paying a vendor invoice. Without that control, purchasing can become surprisingly informal. A chef texts a sales representative. A bartender adds something […]
Restaurant Receiving Procedures: How to Stop Shortages, Substitutions & Back-Door Losses Yoast setup
RESTAURANT PURCHASING + INVENTORY CONTROLS Restaurant Receiving Procedures: How to Stop Shortages, Substitutions & Back-Door Losses Strong restaurant receiving procedures protect the point where inventory, vendor invoices and restaurant cash first come together: the back door. Restaurants spend thousands of dollars every week purchasing food, beverages, supplies and other products. Yet in many operations, the […]
Restaurant Vendor Invoice Audit: How to Catch Overcharges, Price Creep & Billing Errors
RESTAURANT PURCHASING + COST CONTROLS Restaurant Vendor Invoice Audit: How to Catch Overcharges, Price Creep & Billing Errors A restaurant vendor invoice audit can uncover profit leaks before they disappear into food cost, beverage cost and operating expenses. Restaurants process hundreds or even thousands of individual vendor charges. Food distributors, beverage suppliers, linen companies, chemical […]
Restaurant COGS: What It Is, How to Calculate It, and What It Should Be
RESTAURANT COGS + INVENTORY Restaurant COGS: Formula, Benchmarks & How to Control It If you want to understand whether your restaurant is actually making money, you need to know what your restaurant COGS number is—and whether you can trust it. COGS, or Cost of Goods Sold, measures what it costs your restaurant to produce the […]