INSIGHTS
Practical guides for building and using better software.
Clear thinking around software products, digital experiences, and the real workflows behind them.
Restaurant operations
Inventory gets harder when the information lives in different places.
Why keeping inventory, purchases, and costs in separate places makes restaurant operations more difficult than they need to be.
Restaurant inventory counts: zero, uncounted, and variance
A practical guide to recording what was found, separating zero from unfinished work, and reviewing variance before inventory changes.
Restaurant food cost: from ingredient cost to menu item
How package prices become usable ingredient costs, flow through preparations and yield, and reach the cost of a plate.
Track supplier price changes without comparing the wrong things
Why package totals can mislead, how normalized unit costs help, and when a price comparison should remain incomplete.
Building software
You don't need a finished software specification to get started.
Why bringing a problem, goal, or workflow is more important than arriving with a technical document.
Website or web application? Start with what you want people to accomplish.
How to decide between a content-focused website and an interactive web application based on your goals.