Receiving Best Practices: Prevent Big Losses at Your Back Door

Many restaurants lose LOTS of money at the back door due to poor or non-existent receiving procedures and controls. If you don't have an effective receiving system in place, it's close to a 100% certainty that you're losing money due to driver or insider theft, short-weights, accepting bad products and even more.

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Receiving Best Practices: Prevent Big Losses at Your Back Door

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Many restaurants lose LOTS of money at the back door due to poor or non-existent receiving procedures and controls. If you don't have an effective receiving system in place, it's close to a 100% certainty that you're losing money due to driver or insider theft, short-weights, accepting bad products and even more.

The receiving process is vital to controlling food cost and protecting valuable food products. Drivers notice which restaurants have good receiving controls and which ones don't. Use this training video to up your receiving procedures with these back door best practices and it will have an immediate impact on your food cost and profitability.

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