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First off, I'd like to express my sympathies. Been there, didn't like it.
Here's my opinion/suggestion. It may help or not. If you have a POS system, it tracks all the sales of each item. So you can run various reports, by shift, day, week, month, by item, by group and category and about a hundred other things. So you know with complete accuracy what's been sold and when, what was delivered and when, etc. Print this out to use for ordering.
If your inventory system is already computerized, so much the better. If you can connect the two, even better.
So the essence of my suggestion is to computerize the hell out of the entire process from start to finish.
Then when argument day arrives, it isn't you with an opinion, it's you with a computer generated report with actual numbers. Those are much harder to argue with.
Just to beat a dead horse, I'll throw in an example. The POS sales report for the past week says 65 stuffed chicken breasts were sold between monday evening and Friday lunch. Inventory report and invoice says 75 were delivered Monday morning. A quick visual check shows five in walk-in and five in prep on the line. All accounted for.
The sales report for the past twelve weeks shows sales of at least 60 each week. The lowest sales was the fourth week, also the same week as that enormous blizzard. Etc, Etc.
Of course, owner cooperation is needed to do much of the computerization but the closer you can get to this the better.
I believe so strongly in doing this and am so confident that it will solve much of the issue that I'll wager that if the owner gives you a hard time about it and doesn't want to computerize it all so it's extremely accurate, then he's hiding something or taking product home that he doesn't want to admit to. Or he's an idiot.
(That no 86 policy? In my humble opinion that's a pretty stupid rule.)
Otherwise, Best of luck with the job search.
Here's my opinion/suggestion. It may help or not. If you have a POS system, it tracks all the sales of each item. So you can run various reports, by shift, day, week, month, by item, by group and category and about a hundred other things. So you know with complete accuracy what's been sold and when, what was delivered and when, etc. Print this out to use for ordering.
If your inventory system is already computerized, so much the better. If you can connect the two, even better.
So the essence of my suggestion is to computerize the hell out of the entire process from start to finish.
Then when argument day arrives, it isn't you with an opinion, it's you with a computer generated report with actual numbers. Those are much harder to argue with.
Just to beat a dead horse, I'll throw in an example. The POS sales report for the past week says 65 stuffed chicken breasts were sold between monday evening and Friday lunch. Inventory report and invoice says 75 were delivered Monday morning. A quick visual check shows five in walk-in and five in prep on the line. All accounted for.
The sales report for the past twelve weeks shows sales of at least 60 each week. The lowest sales was the fourth week, also the same week as that enormous blizzard. Etc, Etc.
Of course, owner cooperation is needed to do much of the computerization but the closer you can get to this the better.
I believe so strongly in doing this and am so confident that it will solve much of the issue that I'll wager that if the owner gives you a hard time about it and doesn't want to computerize it all so it's extremely accurate, then he's hiding something or taking product home that he doesn't want to admit to. Or he's an idiot.
(That no 86 policy? In my humble opinion that's a pretty stupid rule.)
Otherwise, Best of luck with the job search.
