Tag: Time Management

What is the ROI of a rice cooker (solar powered) with calculators

So my solar powered slow cooker diet is going well, with loads and loads of stress free and delicious food experiments under way, utilising great local organic Kapiti produce. I wanted to take a further step in the sustainability direction, so I bought myself a rice cooker to work along with the solar panels.
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Otaki Motel has consumed one colour ink cartridge in 12 months

I’m very pleased to report that we have not had to change colour cartridges in over a year. This is a result of some sound planning that I undertook regarding printer cartridge consumption in September last year.

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Energy Transfers In The Commercial Kitchen

For the past few months, while I’ve supported my mother through a sickness, I’ve been working as a prep chef in a busy commercial cafe in a coastal town. My main observation has been of how energy transfers within a commercial kitchen. It is one of those things that I’m sure no one else would find remotely interesting, but that fascinates me intensely. In a busy commercial kitchen, not a single joule is wasted. Everything is on just for long enough to deliver the desired result, and then it is shut off. A busy commercial kitchen seems to operate on a fine line between careful resource management and deft resources as the chef arranges a wide array of components in the last few seconds before the plating.

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The Alexander Technique and the Commercial Kitchen

At the commercial kitchen where I’ve recently started working, we served 137 meals yesterday in less than 8 hours of opening. Each of these meals includes a number of sequences or steps to complete to turn out the meal in a matter of minutes.

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Achieving the Lowest Cost Per Printed Page: How to Choose Printer That Saves You Money Over the Long Term

I view myself as a motel manager, and as a motel manager, a big part of my job is to understand and tactically eliminate, reduce or renegotiate the overhead costs in my business.

I admit that I sometimes take this too far and perhaps need a bit of professional help. But so far as the business is concerned, it is excellent for our bottom line to have someone with these cost-cutting tendencies. Sure, such an approach may be aggravating for the people around me, but when it comes to choosing a new printer to replace the one that recently conked out (as happened last week), it is nothing short of a godsend.

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Creating a Decentralised Operating Plan Using the LSS Document, Or: The Art of Setting Up a Cot

It seriously disturbs me that the vast majority of businesses have almost no documented operating systems. While I wouldn’t go so far as to say that I lose sleep over it, and it is unlikely ever to lead to total societal collapse, it worries me in the background way that certain scratching behind a wall can be heard subconsciously in the depth of night.

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