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The second obstacle to tracking food supply prices is the paper trail. the receipts listing changes come in willy nilly, on scraps of paper, left behind by the delivery man. no digital records at all. >> you get paper every day from vendors. there's so much paper, it sort of becomes pointless because i couldn't really find anything. might as well have just thrown it out, to be honest. >> in fact, that's exactly what lindsay does. she just throws them all out. but not before she's carefully scanned each one into her quick books account. >> these are my food costs. >> that daily receipt data is ...

Here. >> that daily receipt data is then e-mailed into her bill.com account for payment and also sent to a spreadsheet showing the rate she's paying. vendor by vendor day by day, month by month. >> there's frito lay. showing all of the bhils paid to frito lay. >> this allows her to track prices. >> either bringing them down with your vendors or adjusting your prices or dropping something off the menu. those kinds of things. >> by using the data this way to revise vendor orders lindsay's retail business is what alan bond calls data driven. >> this is the difference between a business that gener...

Food supply prices is the paper trail. the receipts listing changes come in willy-nilly on scraps of paper, left behind by the deliveryman. no digital records at all. >> you get paper. every day. from vendors. but there's so much paper that it sort of becomes pointless. because i couldn't really find anything. you know. they might as well have just thrown it out. to be honest. >> reporter: in fact, that's exactly what lindsay does. she just throws them all out. but not before she's carefully scanned each one into her quick books account. >> so these are my food tallies right here. >> reporter:...