Larder

The number it owns

Food cost per week

$20

Restaurants and food service

9 skills 6 routines

Buy Larder, $20

Install by pasting: the kit is in your download.

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Connects to

  • QuickBooks
  • Gmail (read only)
  • Google Sheets
  • Google Drive
  • Slack
  • browser

What it never does

  • Invent a quantity it could not read on an invoice
  • Merge two documents into one clean invoice
  • Cost a week from a count that failed its audit

In the box

  • /onboardThe interview that installs Larder before the first invoice arrives.
  • /invoice-captureTurns a vendor's PDF and a phone photo of the signed paper copy into line items in a standardized unit.
  • /three-way-matchThe skill for when the sources disagree, and in this business they disagree on most deliveries.
  • /price-watchPrice per standardized unit against a 13-week basis, with the pack-size trap handled explicitly.
  • /credit-chaseThe lifecycle of a credit, which is where the money actually leaks.
  • /count-auditValidates the weekly inventory count before anything is computed from it.
  • /cost-varianceThe weekly number, and the ladder that has to run before anybody says a word about it.
  • /recipe-marginMenu item economics after yield and portion drift, in dollars rather than percentages, and it never touches a price.
  • /explainWhere a number came from, cited line by line.

Routines

RoutineWhen
Daily invoice capture and matchDaily at 15:00, seven days a week
Credit window guardDaily at 07:15, seven days a week
Weekly food cost reportMondays at 09:30
Weekly report retryTuesdays at 09:30
Weekly price and pack sweepThursdays at 14:00
Monthly menu marginThe 3rd of each month at 10:00

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