Submitted by: Kelly Boudreau
What you buy is what you present at your restaurant. Therefore, while buying restaurant supplies you should have only one guideline in mind: how would you prefer to be served in a restaurant of your standards? If you put yourself in the position of a customer you will realize why some of them are overtly picky about the cutlery, napkin, plates or even the floral decoration on the table.
Restaurant Dining
People come to restaurants to enjoy a meal that is a change from the routine meals that they have in their life otherwise. Sometimes it becomes important to do something different from the mundane packed lunches at work and the same home made food for dinner. Therefore, restaurants provide a refreshing and welcoming culinary experience to customers.
Therefore, you must pay great attention to the color and texture of the napkins that will go on the table beside the plate. You must choose the cutlery carefully so as to match it with the theme and ambience of your restaurant as well as making it practical for your customers to use. There is no point buying heavy silver tableware that will be too heavy for your poor diners to pick up and eat with!
The Indispensable Rulebook
The tablecloth should not have any wine stains from last night s business. If the need arises then replace the tablecloth altogether from your stock with a new one. For these emergencies you must also buy a few extra pieces of such supplies.
The service must be prompt. This should begin with the waiter spotting a new customer coming into the restaurant and looking for a table. He or she should be ushered in, and helped to be seated comfortably. The alcohol list should be provided immediately, shortly after which the food menu should arrive. There should be someone ready to take the order. This someone must be well versed with all the items on every menu. Customers sometimes have a hard time pronouncing certain dishes, or they may simply speak unclearly. The person taking the order must be competent enough to recognize the item as soon as it is uttered.
Even if yours is a fine dining restaurant try to serve the food as soon as possible. No one likes waiting for half an hour at a restaurant listening to the clanging of cutlery at other tables as fellow diners enjoy their meals while he waits for his to arrive.
Keeping Track of Supplies
Equipment such as microwaves, ovens, refrigerators, freezing rooms, burners and fuel are essential to run a restaurant. You must make sure that each of them meets the standard parameters that every restaurant in the country is supposed to.
Cleaning agents and storing solutions are very important and must be bought in bulk to make sure that the restaurant never runs out of it. However, any product that has a limited shelf and is likely to perish if not used within the stipulated time after manufacture must be kept track of.
Since many supplies in a restaurant are constantly changing in their stock the inventory must be kept very carefully to control costs and prevent leakages.
About the Author: Kelly Boudreau represents RSI, a
restaurant accounting
firm.
Source:
isnare.com
Permanent Link:
isnare.com/?aid=491842&ca=Business+Management