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Food cost, COGS, and inventory guides for cafés and restaurants.

• Coffee shop inventory management: a working guide

  August 26, 2026

  What to count in a cafe and how often, units and pack sizes, why cafes drift differently than restaurants, and how counts turn into a real food cost percentage.

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• Par levels for cafes: stop running out of oat milk

  August 26, 2026

  Set cafe par levels from real usage, handle weekend spikes with day-of-week pars, work around milk's shelf life, and turn a par into a vendor purchase order.

  #coffee shop#par levels#ordering#inventory