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Smart Supply Chain Management Can Reduce Food Waste and Improve Margins in Your Restaurant

Modern Restaurant Management

A large chunk of that comes down to complex problems in global food supply chain management that most restaurants have little control over. What restaurants can do, however, is re-think how their direct food supply is managed – from transport to inventory control. It’s the cost of waste.

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What Can I Do to Reduce My Restaurant Supply and Labor Costs?

Modern Restaurant Management

Why should you and your staff spend hours counting inventory, auditing invoices, and combing through contracts? We’re going to park this one here until a little later in this article. Here are three ways you can reduce your restaurant supply and labor costs: Use Technology to Streamline Operations.

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Navigating the Supply Chain in the Restaurant Industry

Goliath Consulting

We saw customers stockpiling on groceries and supplies in homes instead of going out to eat, raising retail sales by 29 percent over the previous year (1). According to this McKinsey Report, these “changes in consumer behavior continue to ripple through the US food and agricultural supply chains” even today (1). Inventory Estimates.

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Restaurant Operations Management: A Guide for Restaurant Owners

ChowNow

Every day, youre juggling staff, food quality, inventory, customer service, purchasing, and moreall while trying to cultivate a dining experience that wows your customers enough to keep them coming back. How to solve it: Use data-driven ordering to track inventory closely to forecast demand accurately and avoid overstocking.

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Competition’s Coming: Key Technology Changes Can Help You Win

Modern Restaurant Management

Inventory stock changed significantly. These non-paper menus can be changed swiftly, allowing restaurants to remove items when inventory lags and promote items that have higher margin. In the best of circumstances, they should be linked to inventory and automated kitchens. Menus were trimmed to a fraction of original size.

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Franchise Portfolio Diversification: Trends Taking Shape in 2022

Modern Restaurant Management

Labor shortages and other factors are affecting the global supply chain in never-before-seen ways, and certain commodities are intermittently not available, or if they are, they’re expensive. The recent supply chain issues have only exacerbated restaurant industry pain points. are the fast-casual franchise model of the future.

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Restaurant Cost Control Strategies Every Operator Should Be Using

ChowNow

In this article, you will learn: The five most important restaurant costs to track and manage Easy strategies for controlling food costs and labor costs Tactics to save money without hurting your guest experience Lets start with the big picture and learn where your money is actually going.