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Articles about Food Costs and Inventory

8 Essential Restaurant Reports for Your Dashboard in 2024

Food Costs and Inventory

8 Essential Restaurant Reports for Your Dashboard in 2024

Jan 3, 2024 | 11 min read

Every restaurant manager can use these eight reports to optimize labor, scheduling, inventory, and more to maximize profitability in 2024 and beyond!

Empowering Restaurants with a Data-Centric Dashboard

Food Costs and Inventory

Empowering Restaurants with a Data-Centric Dashboard

Nov 30, 2023 | 6 min read

The Crunchtime dashboard is now redesigned to help restaurant professionals interpret data faster and make smarter decisions.

New Features for Inventory Management and Labor & Scheduling - Fall 2023

Food Costs and Inventory

New Features for Inventory Management and Labor & Scheduling - Fall 2023

Oct 31, 2023 | 6 min read

Learn about what’s new in Crunchtime’s latest release for Inventory Management and Labor & Scheduling (version 11).

[New Research] Food Costs Eat Up 35% of Revenue on Average for Multi-Unit Restaurants

Food Costs and Inventory

[New Research] Food Costs Eat Up 35% of Revenue on Average for Multi-Unit Restaurants

Sep 28, 2023 | 2 min read

New research gives a clear benchmark for food costs in multi-unit restaurants and reveals operators' strategies for reducing them in the near term.

10 Tips to Reduce Food Costs and Close the Food Cost Variance Gap

Food Costs and Inventory

10 Tips to Reduce Food Costs and Close the Food Cost Variance Gap

Aug 22, 2023 | 8 min read

Proven tips and best practices to address restaurant food cost management that can help your team achieve more consistent and profitable operations.

Explaining Actual vs. Theoretical Food Cost Variance

Food Costs and Inventory

What is Actual vs. Theoretical Food Cost Variance?

Aug 2, 2023 | 11 min read

Learn about actual vs theoretical food cost variance and how a restaurant inventory management system can help reduce variance and food costs

The ROI of Ops Excellence: How Restaurants Can Measure the Value of Improved Inventory Management

Food Costs and Inventory

The ROI of Ops Excellence: How Restaurants Can Measure the Value of Improved Inventory Management

Jul 25, 2023 | 8 min read

See how food costs and inventory optimization impact profitability. Measure the ROI of digitizing inventory processes to understand the value you’ll drive.

Modernizing Your Restaurant: Why You Should Start with Food and Labor Operations

Food Costs and Inventory

Modernizing Your Restaurant: Why You Should Start with Food and Labor Operations

Jun 13, 2023 | 7 min read

Modernizing your back-of-house food and labor operations: what it means and how to do it

6 Inventory Management Tips from Leading Restaurant Brands

Food Costs and Inventory

6 Inventory Management Tips from Leading Restaurant Brands

Jun 2, 2023 | 7 min read

Six tips and best practices from leading restaurant brands to help refine inventory strategies to control food costs and deliver a great guest experience.

Restaurant Inventory Management Software Best Practices – Crunchtime

Food Costs and Inventory

Restaurant Inventory Management Software: 3 All-Time Best Practices

May 14, 2023 | 2 min read

Learn three all-time inventory best practices to pair with restaurant inventory management software, and how each one helps operators grow successfully.

How to Find, Train, and Maintain Top-Performing GMs

Food Costs and Inventory

How to Find, Train, and Maintain Top-Performing GMs

Apr 10, 2023 | 6 min read

Investing in a great general manager can help a restaurant thrive; here are top strategies to help get a top performer through each phase of the process.

4 Ways Inventory Management Helps Scratch Kitchens Reduce Food Costs

Food Costs and Inventory

4 Ways Inventory Management Helps Scratch Kitchens Reduce Food Costs

Mar 23, 2023 | 5 min read

Learn why restaurant inventory management is more complicated in scratch kitchens and four strategies to improve food cost and actual vs. theoretical food variance.

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