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Notes from the pass
How restaurant numbers actually behave, written for the people who have to reconcile them on a Sunday.
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FEFO, not FIFO: the batch rule that decides what you throw away
First-in-first-out is the rule most kitchens think they follow. For anything with an expiry date it is the wrong one, and the difference shows up in the bin.
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Three-way matching: catching the invoice that quietly overcharges you
The purchase order says one price, the delivery note says one quantity, the invoice says something else. Checking all three against each other is dull, mechanical, and the single highest-yield habit in purchasing.
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