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| Everyone in business today is trying to reduce their | | | | it readily available. |
| operating costs; I don't think there is a small business | | | | Here's where the beer comes in, we'll call this the |
| in existence that is making too much money. We | | | | foam analogy. Take a draft beer with a lot of foam, |
| spend time with our chefs reviewing food cost, and | | | | there is a tremendous amount of waste, you only |
| our GM or manager going over our pour cost. I think | | | | drink the beer and dump the foam. The actual power |
| it's amazing how much money you can actually save | | | | you use is the working load, this is the beer, and the |
| if you take the time to review and measure on a | | | | wasted power is the foam. A line conditioner's |
| weekly basis. This is a process that takes time, | | | | function is to manage the excess electricity, or in this |
| effort and managing. If the managers do the work | | | | case, the foam. I know this is breaking the whole |
| and we don't review it, or pay attention to the | | | | process down into relative simplicity, my point is for |
| information, it ends up being an effort in futility. | | | | everyone to understand there are things we can do |
| As an owner, we tend to focus on costs controlled | | | | as owners that can reduce costs way beyond food |
| by our managers; we measure them and even bonus | | | | and liquor cost. If your beer taps were continually |
| managers on their numbers. This is a typical scenario, | | | | pouring draft beer that was thirty percent foam, |
| which we tend to accept as the norm, this is where | | | | you'd do something about it. |
| we as owners tend to fail, sometimes miserably. We | | | | How much can the savings possibly be? When I |
| hold our managers accountable; yet tend to let | | | | asked this question, the rep I spoke with explained |
| ourselves slide. Owners are privy to so much more | | | | to me that his company typically quotes five to |
| than a typical manager, our job is to spec everything | | | | twenty percent. Off the record, he explained that |
| for our managers, and then let the managers | | | | he'd never seen a savings under seventeen percent |
| manage. | | | | and most were twenty to as high as thirty percent. I |
| A good friend of mine shared with me information | | | | don't know what this correlates into for savings for |
| about a product called a line conditioner; this is a | | | | your business, for mine it ranges from three hundred |
| device that connects to your breaker panel. I've | | | | dollars to up to one thousand dollars a month. I think |
| recently researched this product and am impressed | | | | when you do the math, the payback is maybe a |
| by the data and am appalled our government or | | | | year or less. |
