Free Restaurant Inventory Templates

The purpose of a Restaurant Inventory is to allow restaurants to successfully determine what and how many goods they need to purchase.

Alternate Names:

• Restaurant Inventory Spreadsheet;
• Restaurant Inventory Sheet.

Your business needs to find the ideal balance between avoiding filling up your inventory with irrelevant and too many goods whilst at the same time ensuring that the demands of the market and your clients are met without fail. A restaurant business will also face the additional issue of supplying delicate food products to their customers which must be consumed immediately to prevent spoilage.

Foods arriving from vendors are monitored by the individual or individuals managing the inventory to keep track of what has been used, what has been left, what has gone bad and which foods have gone missing.

However, a restaurant does not simply limit the inventory to foods. It will also take into account any equipment that is required for the functioning of a kitchen, work uniforms, plates, cutlery and any other items that are instrumental in the successful operation of the restaurant. To begin with, you need to find a suitable Restaurant Inventory template.

There are several advantages of keeping a Restaurant Inventory and some of the main reasons are outlined below:

• Very little food will be lost as less of it will spoil beforehand;
• Restaurants can keep a closer eye on their supplies and suppliers. This leads to an improvement in financial control as well as a stable payment system;
• You will be given more information about the levels of supplies in a business. In turn, this will allow you to order specific products automatically.

This combination will lead to increased profits and the best part is, inventories can simply be controlled using a spreadsheet.

For a full list of Restaurant Inventory templates please feel free to check out our library below.

Still looking for a particular template? Take a look at the related templates below:

• Kitchen Inventory Template;
• Supply Inventory Template;
• Home Inventory Template.