So if you are willing to be anal enough to make sure things are always "in thier place" and have a few webcams to spare, you could have the webcams point at the

So if you are willing to be anal enough to make sure things are always "in thier place" and have a few webcams to spare, you could have the webcams point at the food storage locations. This could do a large part of the inventory management automatically... at least have a "present/not present" bit for ingredients.