Watch the Pennies and the Dollars will Grow
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Every penny counts when it comes to cutting costs at restaurants. Operations average only 5-6 cents profit on each dollar, according to National Restaurant Association research. Here are some ways to teach employees about restaurant expenses and make them partners in your efforts to reduce costs.
-Show them the money. To help employees understand restaurant expenses, show them how a dollar of revenue breaks down into paying your expenses.
-Teach employees that little things mean a lot. For example, each sugar packet costs about 1/2 a cent. However if each employee carelessly throws away a few packets every shift, the restaurant can waste a couple hundred dollars a year.
-Show employees the waste. Instead of allowing kitchen employees to simply throw away waste food, like burnt chicken, dried-out vegetables, and spilled pasta noodles, make them place the food in a pot where at the end of each shift they are able to see how much food was wasted on their watch.
source: National Restaurant Association
