Victory.

Often in the Corp, we make changes and hope that it makes things better or assume that it does and don't bother to follow up. If you remember back in the ancient pre-bagel switch days, we used to have three separate vendors for bagels - one was a little more expensive, and one was a lot more expensive. The last one was MUG's - and their bagels were good, really good. But it wasn't worth it, Brad and others decided, and UG, Vittles, and Catering went along to Midnight's vendor, who was the cheapest. It was a little contentious both within the Corp and with some of our customers. But we did it, among other reasons, so we could make more money.

So when I heard from Bill that we've saved $1632.58 just from the bagel switch, and just from the end of March through right now, I was excited for two reasons: (1) because we're evaluating our performance retrospectively and (2) something we did worked! Now, it's not all about money - if we're driving customers away because they don't like our bagels, then it doesn't matter how much money we saved - but that doesn't seem to be the case.

For those of you who are curious, Bill just used POS to figure out how many bagels each store sold since the switch, and compared what they would have paid to the old vendor to what they actually did pay (a lower price). This is pretty uncomplicated POS work; hopefully in a few years, more advanced analyses will be used as frequently (and as usefulyl!) as these kinds of analyses are.