FREE WORKBOOK
Stock Count and Valuation Workbook
Wet and dry counts to a valuation at cost, then the bridge that turns two counts and the purchases between them into an earned GP.
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Who this workbook is for
Anyone whose GP has never met a stock count
Cost of sales is opening stock plus purchases less closing stock, and two of those three numbers are counts. Skip them and the GP is a guess wearing a percentage; count them weekly and the venue’s most important figure becomes a measurement. The bridge sheet reads the count by reference, so a recount flows straight through to the earned GP with nothing retyped.
Anyone who values stock at menu prices
Stock is valued at what you paid, not what it sells for — the kitchen’s £3,800 of food is £3,800, however much the menu says it will become. The wet and dry sheets multiply counted units by unit cost, kegs and casks included, which is also exactly the valuation the accountant and any inspector expect to see at year end.
Anyone whose theoretical and actual GP disagree
When the menu says 70 and the counts say 68, the two-point gap has a shortlist: portions, waste or shrinkage, in that order of likelihood. The bridge names the gap’s size in pounds; the Wastage Cost Calculator and the Plate Costing Calculator’s portion recount are the next two doors, and the Weekly GP Tracker is where the answer gets watched.
