Posts about coffee shop
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Theoretical vs Actual Food Cost: How to Find the Gap in Your Cafe
Theoretical food cost is what your recipes say you used. Actual is what left the shelf. A worked week of milk and espresso shows how to find the gap.
Square inventory for restaurants: what it tracks and where it stops
What Square’s built-in inventory tracks, where it stops for ingredients, what the MarketMan add-on is, and when Square alone is enough for a cafe.
How much milk does a coffee shop use? Do the math
Work out your own milk use: drinks sold times ounces per drink, with drink counts from Square, Clover, or Toast, a worked 250-drink day, and a par.
Coffee shop inventory management: the guide
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.
Par levels for cafes: never run out of oat milk
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.