For the past month or two I've been trying to get a handle on my two biggest costs; Labor & Food. Not knowing or thinking that I would need anything different, I started my restaurant with just a simple cash register. You have no real way of managing your food costs. I am going to blog about this later, but if you ever do something like this, spend the money on a good Point of Sale system. I just pulled the trigger on an Aloha P.O.S. system. It will be a few weeks before we are using it because of programming in the menu, pricing, portions etc.. But I am hoping to save myself some real money over time by using this. Again, this will be in another blog in the next few days/weeks.
I have also trimmed my labor back. Gonzalo is now gone. Bo and I are going to rotate in and out on the line with Chocho. I hired a new guy yesterday named Alfredo who is going to work part time 35 hours a week. He is going to work 4:30 to close and all day Saturdays. Chocho is leaving on May 1st. When he leaves I will hire another guy to work the same hours as Alfredo to close nights. That should save me $600.00 a week in labor. I'll post on the benefits of a POS system in the next few days. I might even have a guest blogger on the subject, if I can talk him into it.
This is the best blog I have ever read! I have always wanted to open my own BBQ restaurant and now I can live vicariously through you. I enjoy cooking for friends but think that if it were my job it would become less enjoyable. I appreaciate your blog and will read it often. I still want to visit your Joint and look forward to cooking a lot of BBQ myself. Check out my blog www.stewarttwins.blogspot.com Thanks for the great blog!
ReplyDeleteWe use a POS system where I work. Good luck . . . It can be a real P.O.S. sometimes. See you Saturday.
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