Purchasing & Receiving
When a supplier is asked to deliver a fixed quantity of specific food items on a daily basis.
What is a standing order?
Maintaining a pre-determined amount of a food item in storage so that you never run out.
What is a Par Stock?
Freezers should be maintained at ____ C or _____ F.
What is -18 C or 0 F?
Formula used to calculate food cost percentage.
(Food cost ÷ Monthly revenue without tax) x 100 = Food cost percentage
Formula to calculate yield percentage.
(EP ÷ AP) x 100 = yield percentage
The weight of the product with packaging.
What is the Gross Weight?
Establishing a dollar value for the goods on hand (Inventory).
What is Inventory Valuation?
Foods in storage areas should ____ cm above the floor.
What is 15 cm ?
Formula to calculate menu price (selling price).
Portion cost ÷ (targeted) food cost percentage = Menu price
Store unpeeled potatoes, winter squash, unpeeled onions and garlic in _____________.
What is the dry storeroom?
The weight of the product only.
What is the Net Weight?
This document is used to rebate money for damaged or shorted items on a delivery.
What is a Credit Memo (Credit Memorandum)?
The acronym used to remember to properly rotate foods in storage.
What is FIFO? (FIRST IN FIRST OUT)
3 items that are commonly sold by "unit sizing by count".
What are: russet potatoes, apples, shrimp, scallops?
Bulging cans of food indicate this bacteria may be present.
What is clostridium botulinum? (Botulism)
A precise written statement of the product’s characteristics required by the user.
What is a Purchase Specification?
Communication technique that requires the listener to understand, interpret, and evaluate what they hear.
What is Active Listening?
Refrigerators must be maintained at ____ C or ____ F.
What is 4 C or 40 F?
3 items that would be important tools for a receiver.
What are: scale, thermometer, copies of purchasing specifications?
3 important tasks wen receiving an order.
What are: check the quality of foods.
Count/weigh all items delivered and confirm with amounts on the invoice.
Check expiry dates of dairy products.
3 details that may appear on a Purchase Specification.
What are: name, brand, grade, size, product details such as fresh, frozen, or vacuum packed?
Formula to calculate monthly Food Cost.
Beginning inventory
+ Purchases
- Ending inventory
= Cost of food
The order that you would store raw chicken, raw pork chops, and raw salmon in a reach-in fridge.
Top: raw salmon
Middle: raw pork chops
Bottom: raw chicken
Nothing below raw chicken
5 items that are considered to be labor costs.
What are: wages, salaries, EI, CPP, WCB, Vacation pay, Holiday pay?
Menu price would you assign a burger with a portion cost of $4.41 if your targeted (ideal) food cost is 31%.
What is $14.23?
$4.41 ÷ 0.31 = $14.23