Bread Yield and Wastage Sheet
Know which line is losing you money — the one that is over-baked every day, or the one that never sells out — from counts rather than the feeling at closing.
Food production and artisan makers · FP-03
A free printable bakery production sheet — every product for one bake with batches, units made, orders, shop stock, mix and out times, and what came out.
One page. Choose your paper size — both versions are laid out identically, so neither one gets shrunk to fit.
Print it and write on it
Fill it in type and save
The fillable versions have real form fields — open them in any PDF reader, type into them and save. Printing help.
Turn the orders book and the shop's usual sales into a list the night shift can work from, and see the next morning where the plan and the bake disagreed.
Small and micro bakeries, home bakers supplying shops or cafés, and anyone planning a bake for more than one customer.
One page, top to bottom:
Printed under the title: Tomorrow's bake on one sheet: every product, how many batches, what that makes, who it is for and who is making it — written the night before and ticked off as it comes out of the oven.
Your times, written in. Mixing, proving and baking times are yours, from your own recipes and your oven. The two time columns are for the times you set for this bake, so the plan works backwards from when the shop opens or the van leaves.
Write-on lines: Bakery · Bake for (date) · Planned by · Baker(s) · Orders checked against the book · Flour and stock checked · Ovens and mixers ready · Short of
Table, 11 rows: Product · Batches · Makes · Orders · Shop · Mix by · Out by · Made by · Actual
Because they belong to your recipes, your flour and your oven, and no two bakeries share them. The time columns are for the times you set for this bake, not times we suggest.
Know which line is losing you money — the one that is over-baked every day, or the one that never sells out — from counts rather than the feeling at closing.
Record the batch codes going in and the destinations going out, so a recall or a complaint can be traced to one day's production rather than all of it.
Make the cake the customer described rather than the one you remember, and have the spelling of the inscription and the deposit in writing.
Put an order in writing so the delivery note and the invoice can both be checked against what was actually agreed.
Every sheet, binder, game and puzzle on Upkeep Papers is free to download, with no email and no account. Making them is not free: each one takes days of research, design and checking, and the site costs money to run. If something here saved you time, you can buy us a coffee. It is entirely optional: nothing is locked, and nothing changes if you don’t.
Opens PayPal in a new tab. Any amount, and nothing changes if you would rather not.