2012年7月10日星期二

Top Uses Of Excel In A Restaurant

Top Uses Of Excel In A Restaurant ,ray ban sunglasses repair

Excel's powerful spreadsheet tools are the basis of business operations worldwide. From the most powerful of the mega corporations to tiny family-owned businesses, Excel is a part of nearly every business in the world. But for all of that,Louis Vuitton Outlet, the powerful program is often limited by the imaginations of its users, when it has the capacity to be so much more than a number crunching program.

Here are ten ways that Excel can be useful in a small restaurant:

Financials: Everyone saw that one coming. Tracking financials is what Excel was made for, at least in most business owners' eyes. If you aren't using Excel, you're probably using a tool based on Excel.

Inventory: Excel can not only keep track of how much you order, what it costs, and when you order it, but it can also be programmed to keep track of item's expiration dates and give you alarms when food is about to become unusable.

Scheduling: Excel's ability to produce beautiful charts doesn't just apply to analyzing your over/under -- it can also be used to print off easy-to-read schedules to ensure that your restaurant is always adequately staffed.

Checklists: Similarly, Excel can be used to create easy-to-modify lists of opening, midrush, and closing tasks to make sure that no one misses a crucial step in the procedures.

Forecasting: Get creative -- give Excel data ranging from the weather patterns to the freshness of your ingredients to the date and time, and Excel can turn your basic income data into a forecast for future business that's as precise as you care to make it.

Tip Tracking: In addition to calculating their hourly pay based on their schedule, it's pretty simple to have employees put in their total tips at the end of their shift. It's a good way, if nothing else,Gucci shoes, to track who is doing well by the customers and who might need some more work on their tableside manner.

Booking Tables: With just a little bit of wizardry, it's not too difficult to turn Excel into a booking sheet that will automatically bump a group of size X to the first table that's able to support that size of group.

Menu and Ingredients: By making a list of your menu items, what category they fall into (i.e. Appetizer, Salad, etc.), and what ingredients they use, you can not only have an easily-printable record to show a new employee, but you can also easily see any outlying ingredients that could be used in other dishes (or suggest that a particular dish might deserve to be removed from the menu.)

Menu Profitability: Give Excel the ingredients,Louis Vuitton Outlet online, their cost-by-amount, and the amounts used in each dish on your menu, and Excel will tell you exactly how profitable each menu item is.

Invoicing: Excel's templates come with a vast variety of possibilities, one of which is a basic invoicing template for all of your services like window washing, carpet cleaning, etc.

By putting Excel's more advanced features and it's simpler features to good use in your restaurant, you can improve not only the performance of the front-of-house,gucci scarpe, but make the back-of-house run more efficiently as well.

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