Top Tips For Improving Your Sales, Margins And Yield In Winter With Stock Taking
In the colder, wetter, darker months it can often be hard to entice your clientele out of their homes and into your premises. This is why every drop of profit, in these quieter months is more important than ever . We have put together some top tips for improving your sales, margins and yield. All […]
What Does ‘Taking Stock’ Mean?
‘Taking Stock’ is another way of saying stocktaking or completing an inventory. It is a process of counting the amount of stock in your hospitality or catering business. The stock counted will include things like food, drink, linen, cleaning products and other items. The quantities of stock are then matched against the cost of each […]
Seasonal Stock Management
Seasonal stock management is a major area of stock management for nearly all catering and hospitality businesses. It is only normal that the mere thought of stock seasonal management is enough to give any catering or hospitality business owner a headache. Of course you can look at previous years business to predict the seasonal highs […]
What is the difference between wet and dry stocktaking?
Today I want to talk about the difference between food stocktaking, sometimes known as dry stocktaking and wet stocktaking. Let’s start with wet stocktaking. Wet stocktaking is as it suggests, it’s all your wet stock, it’s everything that comes through the bar, so that includes; Spirits Bottle beers Soft drinks Draft beers Lagers Wine But […]
What Is Stock Insurance And Do I Need It?
As independent stock takers in Cambridgeshire, covering the South East of England we are often asked by clients when completing stocktakes on their behalf if they need stock insurance. While we would never tell a client what they should or should not do, we give advice, information and guidance to help our clients make […]
Are You Ready For Summer Stocktaking?
Summer is here which means sunnier days, lighter evenings and busy bars for those refreshing summer drinks while your customers catch up with their friends and family to enjoy the bright weather. But are you ready for the summer stocktaking? We have put together some top summer stocktaking tips to help you achieve the […]
Are Your Check-Backs An Interrogation?
In the restaurant trade, a check back is a service benchmarking question; by the waiter/ress completing a check back they are able to correct any issues with the meal before it is fully consumer. But how does your customer view a check-back?
7 Cardinal Sins Of Restaurant Stocktaking – #4 Waste
Are You Committing The Sin Of Waste In Your Restaurant? Have you noticed how much milk you have been throwing out recently since the kids have gone back to school and far fewer milkshakes are being ordered? Of course each time you pour yet another carton of milk down the sink you make a mental […]
7 Cardinal Sins of Restaurant Stocktaking-Carelessness
As a restaurant owner it is only normal that you will have a lot on your plate and a lot of those full plates to balance – literally in some cases! It is your job as a restaurant owner to balance that restaurant full of hungry customers, the busy bar area, the latest special meal […]