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not worth measuring flour for inventory,
but it makes a lot more sense to
get your inventory nailed down with
cheese before flour.
Cheese is your most essential and
also most expensive item. If you can
nail down exactly how much cheese
you should put on every pizza vs. what
occurs, you can save thousands. Bear
in mind you'll need to consider all
comped pizzas, voided pizzas and donation
pizzas. Along with staff meals,
testing pizzas and re-fires before
blaming portion control and theft.
Tech Aware Inventory
My point is that there are many
pitfalls in doing classic inventory in a
pizzeria, but it is doable. It's even more
doable in the modern age by linking
your vendor invoices with your POS
sales and logging store pars into that
same platform. The systems available
that do this today work best when
they analyze POS data for comps,
voids and discounts. Having all these
connected digitally is the future, and
it's as inevitable as credit cards. And
even with that, it will require a ton of
oversight and a very nuanced look on a
consistent level.
The other option is to have someone
working damn near full time to
marry up what you purchased versus
what you sold versus what you show
as waste. And that's just for one store.
If you get a commissary involved or
have multiple vendors, this will only
get more and more tedious. Excel is a
fantastic program, and you will have to
create custom reports with data entry
down to a line item to pull this off. I
know a restaurant group that does this
for their 15 locations, and they require
three full-time accountants to pull it
off along with buy-in from every general
manager to do the work of proper
inventory and par lists.
There are some other alternatives to
classic inventory. A pure cash
approach of how much you paid
vendors vs. how much you sold will
give you totals and also allows for the
roller coaster. You'll have to dive into
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Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Pizza Today - May 2022

Commentary
Digital
Conversation
Mike's Monthly Tip
Man on the Street
Building Blocks
Tony's Trending Recipe
Knead to Know
Destinations
Kitchen Equipment
A Delivery Kitchen
Inventory Management
Kitchen Tech
Kitchen Tech
Garlic Love
Trending Avocado
Pizza Expo Wrap Up
On the Road: Slim & Husky's
Product Showcase
Pizza Today Yellow Pages
The Marketplace
Expo Spotlight
Mike's Monthly Tip
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Pizza Today - May 2022 - Cover1
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Pizza Today - May 2022 - Commentary
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