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Food cost cockpit

How to enter food cost in PMI

Objective  Ensure that food cost data in PMI is accurate and up to date — capturing purchases, inventory changes, and calculating key metrics to support margin control.  Requirements  Access to PMI and the Food Cost view in Cockpit. Food Cost Budget & Forecast already created for the period. Target or strategy for food cost percentage. ...

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Review and Maintain Food Cost

Summary The procedure below allows you to record your food cost and manage your food purchases by adequately measuring your stock turnover rate on a daily and monthly routine in order to maximize profit on the margin. Intended Users F&B Managers, Executive Chefs, Chefs, Controllers or Revenue Managers. Purpose Manage your food purchases in...

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Resource consumption and purchase patterns

Summary This summary will help you to understand and manage the Food Cost Cockpit. Intended Users Executive Chefs, Chefs = Kitchen Food Cost Owners Instructions The purpose of the Food Cost Cockpit is to manage resource consumption and purchase pattern in order to achieve the forecasted food cost and recommended stock turnover. Update frequency...

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Kitchen food cost overview

Summary Food Cost Cockpit is always part of a Labor Cockpit − usually the Kitchen or Breakfast Cockpit. Intended Users Executive Chefs and Food Cost Cockpit Owners. Instructions The PMI Kitchen Food Cost cockpit helps the Executive Chef to manage the food cost and plan the daily purchases more in accordance with the food revenue stream. 1. Switch...

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Imported food cost purchases overview

Properties with PMI Planning have the possibility to import actual food purchase into PMI. All food purchases are imported daily into PMI, giving the kitchen food cost owner an effortless overview of monthly expenditures. A kitchen normally has different types of purchases. Some are short-term and some are long-term, or purchased for a specific...

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Monthly routine food cost cockpit

Summary Monthly tasks in the food cost cockpit Intended Users Kitchen Food Cost Owners Instructions 1. The food cost cockpit is found in (one of) the kitchen labor cockpit(s). Click on Food Cost in the Cockpit view located in the upper menu bar. 2. Enter the closing stock and save to get a correct food cost percentage. Make sure you are in the...

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Food cost cockpit overview

Start by selecting the correct view At the top of the Food Cost cockpit, just below the breadcrumb menu, you’ll find radio buttons labeled: Labor Food Cost Food Waste These control the type of data shown for the selected department. To follow the routine described in this article, make sure Food Cost is selected. Tip: The view won’t make sense if...

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