Case study

Bakery-café, Dubai.
Multiple sites, one truth.

A Japanese-founded bakery-café brand, mall store plus delivery. Backhouse launched the sites and now runs the weekly P&L, counts and monthly close.

Bakery-café, mall store
Central kitchen
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Found

The gap

Food cost on paper vs. supplier invoices; 100+ menu items with missing or broken recipes; ingredient prices in the spreadsheet up to 10× off the actual purchase price; negative stock on dozens of ingredients.

Cause

Data decay, not fraud

Recipes entered at opening and never maintained; purchase orders received but never finalised so costs never updated; aggregator payouts never reconciled to the bank.

After

A weekly page the owner reads

Store-only P&L with VAT shown separately, drink attach and combo mix tracked weekly, catering identified as the shortest path to break-even, PO discipline restored so cost moves when it should.

Also

Afghan restaurant, Sharjah

Visibility and citation audit, NAP cleanup, review programme — the front-of-house counterpart to the numbers work.

Japanese bento kitchen, Dubai

Kitchen operations audit and systems proposal for a delivery-first concept.

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