Comment le calcul manuel des coûts alimentaires peut nuire à votre restaurant

If you’re of the “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” school of thought, you might still be calculating food cost manually. While that may have worked for you in the past, there are some significant drawbacks to this method over using food cost software.

Humans Make Errors

You probably don’t do the math for fun in your spare time. But as the restaurant owner or manager, calculating food cost is your responsibility. But what happens if you miscalculate by even a percent? You may think you’re making more profit for a menu item than you actually are, and then you won’t be able to unravel why your business isn’t making enough profit overall.

L'inventaire est une étape distincte (mais ne doit pas nécessairement l'être)

Manually calculating food cost happens entirely outside of the inventory process (which you’re probably also doing manually). But leading inventory management software lets you do it all in one place, which is useful, since the price you pay to order ingredients will impact your food cost, and may fluctuate.

Les fluctuations saisonnières sont plus difficiles à calculer

Speaking of fluctuations: certain ingredients cost more or less during certain seasons. If you’ve manually calculated your BLT sandwich that comes with avocado in the middle of avocado season, you’ll have to recalculate that food cost again when they’re out of season and significantly higher.

When ingredients rise in price, it’s a good idea to compensate for that fact by either finding a similar and comparably priced replacement ingredient or charging more for it.

Cela prend du temps

The time you spend calculating food cost manually is the time you’re not spending on other aspects of running your restaurant. With so many responsibilities in running a restaurant, inventory management software enables you to focus on what matters.

Vous ne recevez pas d'alertes sur les coûts en temps réel

Si vous ne remarquez pas qu'un fournisseur vous facture un ingrédient 5 % plus cher, vous ne saurez pas qu'il faut mettre à jour le coût de votre plat. Le logiciel de calcul du coût des recettes vous permet de recevoir des alertes en temps réel sur les coûts. Ainsi, si le prix d'un ingrédient augmente, vous le savez immédiatement et votre logiciel peut recalculer le coût actuel du plat.

Vous ne saurez pas automatiquement quels éléments du menu ne sont pas rentables

Beyond calculating the cost for each dish on your menu, you also need to be aware of which items on your menu are Dogs, or unprofitable and unpopular. Digging manually into past sales can be a time-consuming endeavor. But restaurant management software can give you an alert for unprofitable menu items so you can remove them from your menu and focus on Stars, the most popular and profitable items.

Calcul de la coupe Les coins peuvent coûter cher

You might be tempted, when manually calculating food costs, to skip seemingly insignificant ingredients like a sprinkle of salt or a dash of oil. That, unfortunately, throws off your recipe cost calculation and will end up costing you. A dash of salt might be worth less than a penny, but over a year, that cost can add up. When your team has best practices in place like digitally standardized recipes and waste events to log missing ingredients, you can visibility and control of your entire operations.

La magie des logiciels de gestion des coûts alimentaires

En fin de compte, le calcul manuel du coût des aliments prend du temps et peut coûter à votre restaurant plus que vous ne l'imaginez. Mais avec un logiciel de gestion de restaurant qui combine le calcul du coût des aliments, la gestion des stocks, les achats et les commandes - qui dépendent tous les uns des autres - vous pouvez avoir une vision plus précise de ce que coûte chaque plat, y compris la main-d'œuvre et les frais généraux, et vous assurer que vous facturez suffisamment pour couvrir les dépenses plus une marge bénéficiaire.

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