Operations
When a spreadsheet is no longer an inventory system
2026-09-06
Spreadsheets are a reasonable start. They become a problem when stock, approvals, and exceptions live in too many places for one person to reconstruct.
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These notes come from building operational software: inventory, hospitality, costing, and modernization. They are not disguised sales pages.
Operations
2026-09-06
Spreadsheets are a reasonable start. They become a problem when stock, approvals, and exceptions live in too many places for one person to reconstruct.
Read articleHospitality
2026-09-06
A menu is an operational object. If availability, modifiers, and routing are not in the product, the kitchen and the guest both work around it.
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2026-09-06
A recipe is not only instructions. It is ingredients, yields, cost, and the production implication for every outlet the kitchen supplies.
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2026-09-06
An older application can still be the right product. The work is to make it usable, maintainable, and safe to change — not to rebuild it from a blank file for the sake of novelty.
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