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| Blue Waters Restaurant & Lounge viewed from the sea |
I didn't know a thing about the restaurant business when I got involved. I did remember my childhood though. I must have been about 4 years old. my parents had a bakery, and I wandered into the bread shop and stole a penny, a big "Willie" penny out of the cash drawer. The next day the shop manager, ms. Bailey came to me"Baby June," hey i was only 4. "Bay june did you take anything out of the cash drawer?" - "No, no I didn't take anything.' Fiften minutes later she reappeared '-Are you sure you didn't take a penny out of the drawer? -- and me 'how, how could you know that? there were hundreds of them in there, hundreds.' Welcome to your mother's inventory control system.
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| Tops of umbrellas at Blue Waters |
So I knew the first thing to do was to find out where to buy the best stuff at the lowest price; and I knew my mothers way would be to track a chicken from its purchase through the freezer to the kitchen to the customers table and through the cash register. I'm just using the chicken as an example.She would have tracked everything. So I created logs and forms and all sorts of fancy reporting systems. Of course I'm operating in a country with low literacy so the forms were kept more by me than them. To be honest, there were those times when I just felt that I was just too old to keep up with all this accounting. Yes there were times when I couldn't bother to check the stock. But we probably were more controlled than most small business.
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