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A 'must' for any serious professional restaurant or cookbook collection. It's a tiny percentage which makes the difference between a profitable establishment and one out of business: it's good to have a practical step-by-step guide to reducing costs in food, beverage, operations and labor alike. Remove the mystery from restaurant operations and understand how a professional kitchen succeeds and where it fails with THE FOOD SERVICE MANAGER'S GUIDE TO CREATIVE COST CUTTING, a guide to simple ways to save a food service operation from bleeding money. Thousands of practical insider techniques and tips come from successful professional operations around the world and cover all the basics.
The Food Service Manager's Guide To Cost directed me to accounting software and tools such as Tasty Profits and the National Restaurant Association's Chart of Accounts to keep my books in order. Tricks of the Trade, testimonials from established restaurateurs, give a wealth of insight.
There are also must-see tips for decreasing profit-loss of theft and an inefficient staff. The book reveals thousands of cost cutting secrets such as using a celebrated chef to design your menu, but not actually cook it.
I am not an accountant. The book showed me that POS systems monitor inventory, staff performance and schedules, and even reports possible theft.
The book is humongous and every page of it is filled with applicable tips to improve your bottom line without sacrificing quality. Just thinking about the bookkeeping associated with profit planning and cost cutting intimidates me.
I thought Point of Sale systems were items of convenience and style.
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