The best way to avoid kickbacks in food and beverage purchasing is to create a soil where they can't make mistakes. The effective killer is separation of powers and responsibilities and high salary.

1 separation of powers and responsibilities

separation of powers and responsibilities is easy to say, but not easy to do, because it involves all aspects of catering management. Some enterprises, in order to prevent purchasing kickbacks, will involve the kitchen, purchasing department, financial department, warehouse management department, manager and store manager. They restrict and supervise each other, and mistakes in any link will be reflected immediately.

The chef and the production director set the procurement standards for the main raw materials of the restaurant. For example, pork and beef should be kept fresh, and chickens must buy old hens, but the chef and the production director can't decide where to purchase them.

The purchasing personnel must purchase in strict accordance with the quality standards of raw materials provided by the chef and the production director, and the buyer must purchase qualified and cheap items;

the financial department will implement the market investigation mechanism at any time and go to the raw material market to investigate the price;

after the purchaser buys back the product, it is inspected by the inspector. There are two inspectors. One is to inspect the quality, and the kitchen staff is responsible for the inspection according to the standards formulated by the chef and the production director. The other is the warehouse keeper. The warehouse keeper cares about the quality of the product, only the quantity, to see if the product is short of weight.

2. Pay a high salary to maintain honesty

After adopting the above measures, the phenomenon of kickbacks can be put an end to unless all the relevant personnel in the store collude. But there are always pros and cons to everything. If catering operators blindly prevent purchasing from taking kickbacks, they only know how to squeeze employees desperately and don't know how to sympathize with the people's feelings, then it is really possible to force an "uprising." Smart catering operators wouldn't do such a stupid thing.

while trying to prevent kickbacks from purchasing, it is also necessary to ensure that the backyard does not catch fire, that is, to provide employees with rich material guarantees. In order to reward employees' hard work and dedication, the restaurant can take out part of the operating profit to reward purchasing employees, and will also send heavy red envelopes to employees at the end of the year.

with such a solid and generous income, employees will not move those fearful and crooked thoughts. Facts have proved that in catering business, as an auxiliary measure of separation of powers and responsibilities, this measure is much better than in some industries.

from Sohu.