Resources: Financial Management & Cost Control

This area is your reference to information on the Web addressing a variety of topics for dietary managers — from foodservice management to human resources to diet therapy. Many of these resources are Web pages. A few are in pdf (Adobe Acrobat) format. If you do not have Acrobat, you can download it free from: www.adobe.com/prodindex/acrobat/readstep.html

Do you have a favorite website relevant to dietary management? To suggest websites to add to this directory, please contact the DMA webmaster.

28 Ways to Lower Your Food Costs • www.culinarysoftware.com/nonframe/lowrcost.htm
Food cost-saving tips from Culinary Software Services.

99 Sins of Food Cost Control • www.schiffs.com/schiffscom/99sins.htm
A thorough list! From Schiff's Foodservice.

How to Calculate FTEs • A step-by-step worksheet from DMA

Quality Financial Decision Making (National Food Service Management Institute) — pdf file • www.nfsmi.org/Information/Newsletters/insight19.pdf

Revenue Generation and Cost Control Measures Currently Used in Financially Successful CNPs (National Food Service Management Institute) — pdf file • www.nfsmi.org/Information/Newsletters/insight10.pdf

Show Me the Money • www.usfoodservice.com/flash/services/archive/healthnext/spring_2001/article4.html
(article from Consulting Dietitians, printed in Healthnext)