What you told us
- Outlets
- 1
- Monthly purchase spend
- RM 0
- Current food cost
- 1%
- How often you count
- Monthly
- Wastage and transfers documented
- Neither
The estimate
Per month RM 0 – RM 0
Per year RM 0 – RM 0
As food cost 0.0 – 0.1 pt
That is 3.2% to 5.3% of your purchase spend — the band typical for groups counting at this frequency without a costed recipe baseline to compare against.
Implied monthly sales at that food cost: RM 0.
How this was calculated
- 1A base band is taken from how often you count. Longer between counts means more time in which stock can move with nothing to check it against.
- 2That band is widened or narrowed by whether wastage and inter-outlet transfers become documents, because loss that is never recorded reappears at month end with no explanation.
- 3It is adjusted again for the number of outlets, since every additional location adds transfers and more places for a fact to go missing.
- 4Finally it is nudged for food cost above the usual 28 to 33 per cent band, capped so this can never outweigh the far better evidence of how often you actually count.
What this is not
This is an estimate from your five answers and published industry ranges. It is not a reading of your books. We show the band and the working because a single confident number would be invented.
Where a gap this size usually hides
- No theoretical baseline. Without a costed recipe figure to compare against, the difference between what you spent and what you should have spent cannot be seen at all.
- Long gaps between counts. Counting monthly means stock moves for weeks with no verification point. By the time a discrepancy appears, the cause is too old to find.
- Loss without a document. Spoilage and breakage that never become a record do not disappear. They return at month end as shrinkage with no explanation attached.
What happens next
Nothing automatic. If this number looks worth forty-five minutes, reply to the email this came from and we will look at one month of your own figures together, on your screen. You keep the file. If it does not, you will not hear from us again.