Friday Fix · stock and prep
Stock control that connects the count to the working day.
Know what is usable, what needs ordering and what needs preparing. Give the team a shared routine when the usual person is away.
Discuss stock and prepStart with the £150 Friday TestCount it. Use it to make a decision.
A stocktake is useful when the figures lead to clearer purchasing and preparation. If the count ends in a spreadsheet while staff keep ordering from memory, the same shortages and leftovers can continue.
Friday Ready builds remote stock-control routines for independent restaurants, cafés, takeaways, pubs and catering teams. Your team carries out the physical counts; we help structure the records, targets and decisions around them.
What a focused stock project can include.
Consistent stock counts
Agreed counting units, storage locations, dates and responsibilities so comparisons are meaningful.
Ordering and par levels
Compare usable stock with starting targets, expected demand and delivery arrangements.
Prep and review routines
Show what needs making, who owns it and how sell-outs, waste and leftovers feed into the next plan.
Coverage, counting frequency, waste records, reconciliation and any valuation work are agreed in the quote. The system can be simple; it needs to fit the venue and the time the team has.
Invented café example
Prepare the gap, then check whether the target worked.
The agreed starting target is 24 portions. The opener counts 8 usable portions, leaving 16 to prepare. The manager then reviews what sold, what ran short and what remained before adjusting the next comparable day's target.
Those quantities illustrate the decision only. Shelf life, storage capacity, safe handling and demand determine what is appropriate for the actual operation.
What we need to get started.
Share an item list, current count sheets, supplier and delivery information, and any useful sales, waste or prep records. We agree which gaps to address before the work begins.
Read our guides on setting café prep levels and checking stock discrepancies. For per-dish ingredient costs and pricing decisions, see restaurant menu costing.
A broader problem may need the £150 Friday Test or a Full Friday Build. A specific stock issue can be scoped directly as a Friday Fix.
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