background preloader

Reference

Facebook Twitter

Restaurant Accounting - Restaurant Finance - Inventory Your Food Cost! By Ron Gorodesky and Kate Lange The food is great, the service fabulous and the restaurant is busier than ever - but are you wondering why the bottom line isn't all it should be?

Restaurant Accounting - Restaurant Finance - Inventory Your Food Cost!

Check your FOOD COST. A vital ratio - key to the success of any restaurant as it directly impacts profitability. A profitable restaurant typically generates a 28%-35% food cost. Coupled with labor costs, these expenses consume 50%-75% of total sales. O'Dell Restaurant Consulting's Blog. Calculating how much the food you sell costs you to sell is a very important practice in running a profitable restaurant.

O'Dell Restaurant Consulting's Blog

Knowledge is power, and knowing your food cost compared to your sales and your ideal food cost is very empowering information. By figuring your food cost percentage, you have an early warning system to alert you to potential theft and waste. Virginia Housing Development Authority. A guide for first-time home buyers. Welcome!

A guide for first-time home buyers

Virginia Small Business Grants -Resources and Grants for Small Businesses in Virginia. Do not fall for the hype – the truth about grants is that very few if any federal grants are available to individuals.

Virginia Small Business Grants -Resources and Grants for Small Businesses in Virginia

The federal government does, however, award grants to state and local governments to help them with economic development, and these are the grants you might be able to take advantage of in financing your small business. For example, some states provide grants for expanding child care centers; creating energy efficient technology; and developing marketing campaigns for tourism. Among the business financing resources listed below, you might find a suitable grant. These grants are not necessarily free money, and usually require the recipient to match funds or combine the grant with other forms of financing such as a loan. Introduction. Introduction There are many good books on homebrewing currently available, so why did I write one you ask?

Introduction

The answer is: a matter of perspective. When I began learning how to brew my own beer several years ago, I read every book I could find; books often published 15 years apart. It was evident to me that the state of the art had matured a bit. Where one book would recommend using baking yeast and covering the fermenting beer with a towel, a later book would insist on brewing yeast and perhaps an airlock. Couponing 101 - Learn Realistic Couponing not Extreme Couponing!

Soapmaking Supplies. Wikipedia. Hugo Award for Best Novel. The Hugo Award for Best Novel is one of the Hugo Awards given each year for science fiction or fantasy stories published in English or translated into English during the previous calendar year.

Hugo Award for Best Novel

The novel award is available for works of fiction of 40,000 words or more; awards are also given out in the short story, novelette, and novella categories. The Hugo Award for Best Novel has been awarded annually since 1953, except in 1954 and 1957. In addition to the regular Hugo awards, beginning in 1996 Retrospective Hugo Awards, or "Retro Hugos", have been available to be awarded for 50, 75, or 100 years prior. Retro Hugos may only be awarded for years in which a World Science Fiction Convention, or Worldcon, was hosted, but no awards were originally given.[1] To date, Retro Hugo awards have been given for novels for 1946, 1951, and 1954.[2] During the 61 nomination years, 129 authors have had works nominated; 43 of these have won, including co-authors and Retro Hugos.

2004 American League Championship Series. Route to the series[edit] Boston Red Sox[edit] The Red Sox ended their 2003 season in the previous American League Championship Series with a game seven loss to the Yankees, on a walk-off home run by Yankees third baseman Aaron Boone in the bottom of the 11th inning.[5] During the offseason, they traded Casey Fossum, Brandon Lyon, Jorge de la Rosa, and a minor leaguer to the Arizona Diamondbacks for ace starting pitcher Curt Schilling.[6] Manager Grady Little was also fired and replaced with Terry Francona due to poor decisions that Little made during the previous season's playoffs.[7] The Red Sox also signed a closing pitcher, Keith Foulke, to a three-year contract.[8] New York Yankees[edit] The 2004 Yankees began the season in Tokyo with a split against the Rays.

2004 American League Championship Series

Playing a much anticipated game against the Red Sox, the team lost the game 6–2 and 6 out of the first 7 games to their rivals. Series build-up[edit] Game summaries[edit] Metric/sae converter. The World Factbook. People from nearly every country share information with CIA, and new individuals contact us daily.

The World Factbook

If you have information you think might interest CIA due to our foreign intelligence collection mission, there are many ways to reach us. If you know of an imminent threat to a location inside the U.S., immediately contact your local law enforcement or FBI Field Office. For threats outside the U.S., contact CIA or go to a U.S.

Embassy or Consulate and ask for the information to be passed to a U.S. official. Please know, CIA does not engage in law enforcement. In addition to the options below, individuals contact CIA in a variety of creative ways.