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Why Restaurant Inventory Management is an Accounting Function

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Every time your restaurant buys, counts, transfers, or wastes inventory, it must be entered as a journal entry in your accounting general ledger. Labor costs (employee wages, payroll taxes, employee benefits, etc.). How your restaurant inventory relates to net profit.

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Using Restaurant Analytics to Increase Profits

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There’s sales and customer data, labor performance data, and even data telling you how much food you waste. The importance of POS integration in restaurant data collection. POS integration is a connection between your restaurant accounting and operations platform POS software. Improve Margins on Menu Items.

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Store-level Managers’ Step-by-Step Guide to Restaurant Inventory Management

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The data from inventory management can help you place more accurate orders, calculate exact food costs, make informed menu changes, and address potential sources of food waste. Use an inventory management system that integrates with your POS system. Your POS data can help streamline a large part of inventory management.

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Essentials of Payroll Accounting for Restaurant Groups, Part 1

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From hiring and onboarding to running employee payments and paying taxes, payroll touches on many different parts of a restaurant business. You receive time in your Point of Sale (POS) system. Thus, your labor costs are spread out between your scheduling, POS, and payroll software. Tracking time occurs in many different systems.

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Improving Restaurant Inventory Management to Beat Rising Food Prices

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Your team must still take manual inventory by hand to account for spoilage, improper portioning, and waste. Integrate restaurant inventory management with your POS system. POS integration can automate steps like uploading invoices, auto-updating ingredient prices, and tracking recipes. More about this later.).

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11 Restaurant Management Best Practices to Maximize Your Performance in 2021

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This way, you can take immediate action on issues like incorrect portions or food waste (explored below). Once the menu items in your Point of Sale (POS) system are mapped to recipe costing, you are set to evaluate your food costs and food waste, explored in the next section. With additional tools like a food.

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Why Manual Restaurant Inventory Management Is Eating Your Profits

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If it’s not on the shelf, it can’t be stolen, spoiled or wasted. So, the key to minimizing food waste that can eat into your profits is effective restaurant inventory management. The better and more streamlined your inventory control , the less food waste in your kitchen and the more money added to your bottom line.

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