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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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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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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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Menu Engineering: Innovating Menus for Profitability and Simplicity

Aaron Allen & Associates

The menu’s design has a direct impact on operational aspects, including kitchen workflow, inventory management, and labor costs. It’s about more than tactical design, merchandising techniques, promotional tactics, and pricing strategies though.

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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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Point Of Sale System Cost: Why It Shouldn’t Matter

BNG Point of Sale

This makes this POS software well worth the price, but it brings other benefits too. All of our point of sale systems provide instant readings of transactions, letting you know the exact pricing, volume, and quantity of orders, so you can guide your business more efficiently, saving you time and money on the backend.

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12 Tips to Increase Catering Profits This Busy Season

Cheetah

Recap the last years’ data – Review the previous years’ sales and inventory reports and create a data-driven estimate on how much supplies you’ll need, toothpicks too. >>> If you crack the right menu and pricing, word of mouth will do the rest. Here are 125 practical tips that will help increase the bottom line.

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