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Is There a Right Way to Raise Prices?

Modern Restaurant Management

Due to many factors including inflation and supply chain challenges, restaurant owners and operators have been faced with tough choice about raising menu prices. As food prices rise, restaurants should try to stay within their target ratio for food cost to gross food revenue in order to maintain target profits.

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FOOD COST IS NOT THE CHEF’S RESPONSIBILITY

Culinary Cues

The cost of raw materials seems to always go up, most ingredients that restaurants use are highly perishable, customer volume is less predictable than we would like, seasonal differences in quality are quite significant, the supply chain is out of step with demand, and waste seems to be a real problem in many operations.

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15 Restaurant Metrics to Know and How To Use Them

7 Shifts

Numbers can give us insights into everything from profits and losses to average customer spend to how often employees cycle through. Break-even point. Employee turnover rate. Sales per labor hour. Ideal menu price. Business is often a game of numbers, and restaurants are no exception. Food cost percentage.

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Improving Restaurant Inventory Management to Beat Rising Food Prices

Restaurant365

Restaurant inventory management plays a key role in overcoming rising food prices. Logistics challenges and labor shortages have fueled rising food prices at the wholesale level. Data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics showed the November Producer Price Index, a measure of wholesale prices, up 9.6% from a year ago.

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2024 Outlook: Restaurant Trends and Challenges, Part Three

Modern Restaurant Management

Consider, for instance, a scenario in which your Point of Sale (POS) system can forecast the popularity of a new dish based on historical customer behaviour. This capability can prove invaluable for refining pricing strategies, optimising ingredient and waste management, and planning forthcoming shifts, among other benefits.

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Bottom Line Shrinking? Five Ways Retailers Can Optimize Labor to Minimize Costs

Hot Schedules

Managers need to understand which employees have scheduled overtime as well as the extra associated costs for each day and week. Managers need to review actual employee hours plus how much is scheduled, then the date and time that the overtime could potentially start. But at some point, you have to wonder at what cost?

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Giving Your Business a Restaurant Prime Cost Tune-Up

Restaurant365

If your restaurant is emerging from survival mode to a break-even point or even slight profitability, it is important to reevaluate and tune up the largest expense for your restaurant: your restaurant prime cost. Restaurant prime cost overview. Prime Cost Formula Review. CoGS (Cost of Goods Sold).