{"id":"dat-sb-bakery-waste-rates","audience":"small-business","category":"data","technique":"context","title":"Find which bakery items to bake less of from waste rates","free":false,"task":"You want to cut waste at your bakery. Day-old items sold at half price aren't waste; only what you throw out counts. Anything over 15% waste gets baked less. Write exactly 4 numbered lines, one per item, each as Item: (unsold − day-old sold) ÷ baked = X%, then CUT or OK, then one unnumbered last line: Bake less: [items]. Plain text, under 80 words.","materialLabel":"Weekly bake and sales report (attached to your prompt automatically)","material":"RISE & CRUMB BAKERY - last week totals\n\nItem | Baked | Unsold at close | Sold next day as day-old (half price)\nCroissants | 300 | 60 | 30\nSourdough loaves | 200 | 40 | 0\nBlueberry muffins | 250 | 50 | 20\nScones | 150 | 24 | 0\n\nNotes:\n- Sourdough doesn't sell as day-old; people want it fresh.\n- Leftovers we can't sell go to the shelter on Mondays (counts as waste for this).\n- Saturday was rainy, slow morning.\n- Muffin tins are getting worn; need new ones in December.\n- Maya thinks we \"throw out way too many croissants.\"\n- Counts are from the closing checklist.\n- Shared with the team in the usual folder.","rules":[{"type":"numberedItems","count":4},{"type":"plainText"},{"type":"maxWords","max":80}],"mistakes":[{"title":"Not defining waste","why":"The AI counts day-old sales as waste, so croissants and muffins look bad.","fix":"Add: \"Waste = unsold − day-old sold.\"","checks":["r0"]},{"title":"Not giving the cutoff","why":"The AI can't mark CUT or OK without a threshold.","fix":"Add: \"Over 15% waste = CUT.\"","checks":["r1","r2"]},{"title":"Not asking to see the work","why":"Bare labels hide the math.","fix":"Add a line to copy: \"1. Croissants: (60 − 30) ÷ 300 = 10% OK\"","checks":["numberedItems","r0"]},{"title":"Trusting the AI to count words","why":"AI is bad at counting. Ask for a total word limit and it often lands over it.","fix":"Cap each line: \"each line under 14 words.\"","checks":["maxWords"]},{"title":"Forgetting where it goes","why":"AI loves markdown tables and bold, which show up as clutter in a note to your baker.","fix":"Add: \"Plain text, no bold, headings or tables.\"","checks":["plainText"]}],"promptHints":[{"label":"Defines waste","patterns":["day-?old","unsold.{0,10}(−|-|minus)"]},{"label":"Gives the cutoff","patterns":["15\\s*%"]},{"label":"Asks to show the math","patterns":["show (the |your )?(math|work)","x \\$|\\bx\\b.{0,10}=","calculation","step"]},{"label":"Sets a word limit","patterns":["\\d+\\s*words","word (limit|count)","under \\d+"]},{"label":"Asks for plain text","patterns":["plain","no bold","no markdown","no formatting","no (headings|tables)"]}],"hint":"Day-old sales look like waste in the report. Tell the AI how you define waste and your cutoff.","rubricLabels":["Croissants are (60 − 30) ÷ 300 = 10% OK and Muffins are (50 − 20) ÷ 250 = 12% OK","Sourdough is 40 ÷ 200 = 20% CUT and Scones are 24 ÷ 150 = 16% CUT","The last line names Sourdough and Scones only, with nothing before the first numbered line"]}