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| Conversion Tables | This tracks ingredients used by unit and cost as they pass through the control points. |
| Daily Sales Reports | Summarizes all sales revenue activity for a day, itemizing revenue by categories, number of covers, number of guest checks, etc. |
| Ingredient File | Contains important data on each purchased ingredient, such as ingredient code number, ingredient description, purchase unit cost, issue unit cost, recipe unit, and recipe unit cost. |
| Marketing Category Report | Reports weekly totals of revenue earned by food and beverage departments or food and beverage categories |
| Menu Engineering | A menu management application for evaluating decisions about current and future menu pricing, design, and contents. Forces management to focus on menu items' contribution margin rather than their food cost percentages. |
| Net Sales by Time of Day Report | Generated by automated beverage systems, this report contains information on hourly sales, and is useful for forecasting sales and scheduling servers and bartenders according to expected demand. |
| Outstanding Guest Checks Report | Generated by automated beverage systems, this report helps to resolve discrepancies existing between the sales major beverage category report and the sales by beverage server report. |
| Postcosting | Determines potential food cost by multiplying the number of menu items actually sold by the standard recipe costs. |
| Precosting | A special type of forecasting that compares forecast guest counts with standard cost for menu items to estimate food cost expense before production. |
| Product Usage Report | Generated by automated beverage systems, this report contains information on beverage products sold during a shift. Managers use the information on this report to minimize inventory control problems. |
| Recipe Chaining | This process includes sub-recipe as an ingredient for a particular standard recipe. This enables computer-based restaurant management systems to maintain menu items that require large number of ingredient items. |
| Sales by Beverage Server Report | Generated by automated beverage systems, this report contains information on total sales of each server during a particular shift. |
| Sales by Major Beverage Category Report | Generated by automated beverage systems, this report contains information on the expected beverage income by major categories (liquor, wines, beer, etc.) |
| Sales Category Analysis Report | This report contains information on menu item sales by time of the day. Managers use this information to determine which items are selling and when they are selling. |
| Sales Mix by Major Product Report | Generated by automated beverage systems, this report contains information on how much of each beverage product was sold during a shift. Managers use this information to monitor sales trends and adjust inventory levels as necessary. |
| Settlement Methods Report | Generated by automated beverage systems, this report contains information on the amounts of due in the form of cash, credit card, vouchers, and house charges for sales made during a shift. |
| Sub-Recipe | A Recipe that is included as an ingredient within a standard recipe record. |
| Weekly Sales Spreadsheet | Provides a weekly summary of all information reported by relevant daily sales reports. |
