The Real Cost

Twenty-five invoices on the bookkeeper\’s desk at 3 PM Friday is not a staffing problem. It is a system problem. What creates the fire drill and how to end it.

You cannot re-quote everything. Start with the ten items where a small correction is worth the most, and here is how to find them in your own spend.

There is money on your vendor statements right now that is already yours. Unclaimed credits, how they pile up, and how to go and get them back.

The invoice price is only the start of what an item costs you. Yield, pack size and substitutions all move the real number. How to actually see it.

Food cost rarely jumps. It creeps a few cents per case at a time while nothing on the line looks wrong. How the drift happens and where to catch it.