What did you pay for chicken last week? Not roughly. Exactly. If you don't know, your supplier does, and the number has been creeping up while you weren't looking. In this episode: how quiet price creep eats a year of profit, and the 15-minute-a-week habit that stops it.

What you'll learn:

• Why nobody calls you when your case price goes up, and what that costs across 200 items and 52 weeks
• Why the price sheet is a starting offer, not a fixed price
• The 10-item price sheet that takes 15 minutes a week
• The twice-a-year second-supplier quote that keeps everyone honest without switching

Chapters:
0:00 What did you pay for chicken?
0:10 Straight talk: the quiet creep
1:30 The Fix: the 10-item sheet
2:20 Your assignment

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Silver Spoon Daily is two minutes of straight talk for restaurant owners, every day. I'm Al Kanbar, restaurant coach and consultant.
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Free download: the Silver Spoon Restaurant Health Check.