Our new training video on Perpetual Beverage Inventory is now available for free. You can also download the excel template as well as written instructions.
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Surprisingly, many people that are in food and beverage management positions and even general management positions do not know how to calculate beverage costs, one of the most important costs in every hotel’s budget. Don’t worry, we won’t tell! We will help you keep that secret by showing you how beverage cost is calculated. It is really quite simple.
Conducting random audits of your cashier banks is one of the most important actions you can perform to keep theft out of a hotel. Even though it is so pertinent, almost no hotels actually conduct the random bank audits as part of their normal operations routines.
Why is conducting a random bank audit so important? If you have an employee who is stealing cash during their shift, they need a place to store the cash they are going to steal. They typically store the cash in the drawer and then pocket it at the end of their shift when they are closing out their paperwork. This often applies to guest service agents, bartenders, gift shop cashiers, and coffee shop baristas. A good program of random bank audits can be one of the most important tools to help you keep theft out.
They are the law here in California. It is trouble that most restaurants managers hate to deal with. It is the policy that most servers fail to adhere to. Those mandatory breaks that each employee must take is not just a burden on the server and the restaurant managers, it is frustrating to your customers as well.
While eating at the restaurant of a very exquisite and expensive hotel the other day, we had a disappointing experience. Our service could have been described as good and terrible. How? Well, the service and friendliness from our server and bartender was excellent and would have rated a 5 of 5… when they were around.
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Instructions for using the Five Diamond Hospitality Banquet Bar Requisition Worksheet To set up the file:
1. Create a new file for each event. You can either create a new file for each month or add each month to a separate tab within this worksheet.
2. Input the details of the event at the top of the spreadsheet. Only fill in the cells that are in blue!
After you requisition the liquor to banquets:
1. Fill in the amount that you requisitioned in the column labeled ‘requisitioned’.
2. Again, only fill in the cells in blue.
3. Add additional rows for additional types of liquor not listed.
After the event and banquets returns the unused alcohol:
1. Fill in the amount that is returned in the column labeled ‘returned’
2. Again, only fill in the cells in blue.
To view your cost for the event:
1. Input the amount of revenue you collected for the event at the very top of the spreadsheet.
2. Your cost for the event will be displayed right below your revenues.
3. Send a copy of the worksheet to accounting so they can transfer the amount to banquets.
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