Log and Track Waste
Log waste
- Go to Restaurant → Waste Log → Log Waste.
- Fill in the date (defaults to today), the item (search), quantity and UoM, the warehouse, and a reason from the dropdown.
- As you enter an item and quantity, a live cost preview shows what it costs — average cost × quantity.
- If the reason requires a note, add one — you can't save without it.
- Save.
:::info Automatic stock reduction With Auto-adjust stock on waste on in Settings, logging waste also posts a stock reduction for the wasted quantity. With it off, the entry is recorded for reporting only and stock is unchanged. :::
Reason codes
Go to Waste Log → Reason Codes (needs Manage restaurant settings). Six defaults are seeded automatically — Spoilage, Over-production, Dropped dish, Employee meal, QC rejection, Theft/loss. For each, set its name, category, sort order, an active flag, and a requires-note flag. Codes use Active/Inactive rather than deletion, so historical entries stay intact.
Daily waste-cost alerts
Set a Daily Waste Cost Alert Threshold in Settings. When today's total waste cost exceeds it, Biznsbook raises an in-app notification — at most one per day.
Waste Summary
Go to Restaurant → Waste Summary (needs View restaurant reports) for KPI cards (total cost, top reason, today's waste), a by-category doughnut, a 14-day daily cost chart, and a Top 10 Wasted Items table.
The standout feature is Waste vs Theoretical: it splits your COGS variance into logged waste, the unexplained remainder, and the % explained — so you know how much of your variance is genuinely accounted for. If variance is high but little is explained by logged waste, the gap is likely over-portioning, theft, or a mis-costed recipe — log more diligently to close it.
Filter the log by date, reason, and category, and export to Excel.