How To Flush Your Profits Down The Toilet

Posted by barblog on Nov 24, 2009 in Bar Management | 0 comments

You might as well flush your hard earned money down the toilet. That is if you ignore the back door of your business and specifically your deliveries.

I have lost count of the number of businesses I have come across that spend thousands upon thousands of dollars on advanced point of sale systems, hi-tech digital cctv cameras and security on the door on busy nights, yet don’t even weigh their meat deliveries at the back door. Of those that don’t weigh the deliveries, most don’t even own a weighing scales capable of checking the deliveries accurately.

There is one simple rule that needs to be followed:

“If you order by weight, then weigh the deliveries. If you order by count, then count the deliveries”.

It really is that simple. But why go to all that hassle I hear you ask?

Well, two good reasons are that

(a) If your supplier sees you taking care of your deliveries, they will do the same and

(b) You WILL find errors on the deliveries from time to time and these errors will be paid for by you if you don’t check the delivieries.

So, inform your suppliers of the times that you will receive deliveries, by at the door with your weighing scales, check each delivery by weight and count and know that this area of your business is then not losing you money.