Cost Control

Cost control that tells you why, not just how much.

A single food-cost percentage is a blend of three or four different stories. We separate them, so every Monday you know exactly which lever moved and what to do about it.

  • 16 yearsin hospitality
  • 18+ venuescost control across Athens
  • MScin hospitality management
  • Athens basedon-site in Greece, remote anywhere
01The problem

One number, three problems

Food cost as it lands on most P&Ls is opening stock plus purchases minus closing stock, over sales. A clean equation with fragile inputs.

When it moves, you need to know which of three things actually moved. The theoretical-vs-actual gap. Supplier price drift. Or menu mix. The fix for each is completely different. Guessing is expensive.

02What this looks like in practice

Weekly variance tracking

Theoretical vs actual food cost, separated and explained.

A supplier watch list

Three to five high-volume items tracked against costed price, flagged past 5%.

Prime cost monitoring

COGS plus labor, the number that actually decides whether the month works.

A Monday-morning routine

So the weekly number reads like a sentence, not a guess.

03How we start
  1. 1We start with your last few weeks of stock, purchases and sales. We find where the inputs drift.
  2. 2We build the variance and watch-list structure around your real menu and suppliers.
  3. 3We run it weekly together until your team owns it.

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