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^^ This. It’s amazing how much prices drop where there’s another supplier in the picture. I used to think being loyal to one vendor would reward me, but I was sorely mistaken. When I think of how long I had a single broadline vendor I want to throw up… tens of thousands of dollars flushed down...

This is what I would assume would happen. They want to try to get a quick payment. Actually following through on the threats does nothing but leave an extensive digital trail and waste time. If they didn’t get it by the “deadline” they aren’t going to get it, so why leave evidence all over the...

http://thinktank.pmq.com/threads/switching-from-active-dry-to-instant-dry-yeast.13329/ Scroll down on that thread and you’ll find the formula from Mr. Lehmann. That’s where he taught it to me, and switching over to that method of making dough was one of the best things we ever did.

royster13: The above quote by Steve puts a little different spin on who buys the business. Carrying a note justifies a little “pickiness”. If I’m loaning money to somebody, I’m going to manage my risk. I agree with you on being picky on price though. So many owners fall prey to the sunk cost...

I’m kind of a lighting nerd in my home. We have lots and lots of lights, all connected via a home automation system, and all use some sort of dimming to create “scenes”. I would love to save some power, but I have yet to find a “dimmable CFL” that dims anything like an incandescent. If you’re OK...

Those rates are less than interchange, so I assume they are charging that rate on top of interchange… which would make that a pretty bad deal. Also, any company offering free supplies and paper is probably going to make you lease a machine… also a very bad deal.

Exactly. This will save you so much time down the road. Speaking of saving time, have you considered buying software to do this for you? Does your POS system have an inventory system available? Or have you thought about using Foodcost Pro? It’s only $160.

Well some advice would be to first create a separate sheet that you input all of your case costs into. Have that sheet break every thing down to the cost per ounce. You said you figured out how much everything costs per ounce, but what happens when your prices change? If you make that sheet now...

The problem is the transition, not necessarily the software. If you learn on 2013 you’ll be good!

Royster is so right… you will be sorely disappointed if you upgrade. The new versions are a friggin’ mess if you’ve used to Excel from 1997 to 2007. I studied and worked in finance so I became a power user of Excel over those 10 years. I hate the new versions so much that I went back to using 2000.

Are you sure you didn’t just vent to your guests too? You posted this on a public message board, with your Google-able full name, restaurant name, and city in the post. If the customer finds this, you’ve just made an enemy of her again. If I were the customer I also wouldn’t like my e-mails...

I haven’t seen the video, but if he was actually measuring voltage that doesn’t tell you how much power is consumed. You pay for wattage (which is consumed) not voltage (which is just a potential). Two different circuits at the same voltage can draw wildly different current due to differences...

That’s how I originally read that, and thought “wow, that’s way too much information”… LOL One missing letter really changed the meaning there…

PM’ed you.

Part of the problem is that your site has very little content that a search engine can actually read… it’s mostly images. The GoogleBot can’t pick your text out of the images, and even if it could you don’t have a lot of it. Search engines rank content. Your page looks nice, but there isn’t much...

There is no additional discount for sending to an entire ZIP code versus a single carrier route, whether you use EDDM or Standard Mail. A saturation to a full carrier route is the cheapest possible per-piece price you can get, regardless of whether you send to an entire ZIP code or not...

Steve, I bet people want to work for you because your run a great operation where employees are valued I believe that’s important to getting great employees to stay and perform well, but that’s not what gets them hired on in the first place. I suppose it’s regional, but putting up an ad for...

I’ve given up on CL for the most part. I still post there when I have an opening, because what the heck it’s free… but I never hire anybody that comes in from there any more. Find the biggest jobs board in your area (probably connected to a newspaper website) and buy an ad. Ours costs 85 bucks...

Why are you considering giving up 8 years of marketing work on your name to pull a few menu items off (at 3.5% of sales, nobody is going to care anyway) and add a delivery charge? Is there more to this story? It’s just that I have spent more than a quarter of a million dollars on advertising...

We used to have a problem with them as well. A few years ago I had to replace the motor on my make-up air and I installed a slightly higher RPM motor. The building now has a small positive pressure and I haven’t seen a fly in here since. It wasn’t the reason I changed it, but it was a welcome...