"This is ridiculous. Losses worth Rs 500 in a single week" said Shirish the pantry manager of Dormitory 14 in IIMA. Shirish was talking to Ankit the pantry manager of dormitory 12. The two students were discussing the pantry losses that had burgeoned in the past few weeks. Shirish had closed his pantry last week because of heavy losses. Now Ankit was planning to do the same. They wondered if there was way to solve this perennial problem of pantry losses and shut-downs.