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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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Your Go-To Guide for Restaurant Inventory Management

7 Shifts

You'll also be less likely to order too much of any ingredient, which leads to food waste. And you'll have a better handle on food disappearing due to employee theft, which happens a lot more than you may think. Because the price of some items changes from week to week, make sure you use the latest price paid as the standard.

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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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How Restaurants Can Combat Inflation with the Top-Down and Bottom-Up Method to Profitability

Modern Restaurant Management

The prices of goods and services have increased 8.5 Rebounding demand, supply chain issues, and labor shortages are mostly to blame for driving prices to an all-time high. The menu engineering process depends on knowing the exact profit margin of each item and the exact food cost for preparing these items.

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Maximise Your Restaurant’s Efficiency with POS Integration: 7 Benefits of Combining Point of Sales with F&B Management Software

Apicbase

Although the point-of-sale system (POS) remains the technological heart of restaurants, numerous technologies run behind the scenes these days. This end-to-end solution uses data from your POS to provide insights into sales, food costs, menu engineering and inventory management. Restaurant technology has come a long way.

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How To Ensure Restaurant Profitability When Inflation Is High [Use These 5 Tactics To Dampen Price Increases] 

Apicbase

If CoGs and overheads rise due to inflation, your menu prices should follow. That way, you can keep price increases minimal. In normal circumstances, when menu prices have to be adjusted, it is usually done strategically and with great caution. Drastic price hikes are the last resort for restaurants.

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Restaurant Forecasting: How To, Formulas, Methods, and More

7 Shifts

In this post, we'll walk you through everything you need to know about restaurant sales forecasting - from the reasons why to forecast, to steps on how to create forecasts accurately, to what you should consider when forecasting for your restaurant. Restaurant Sales Forecasting Method & Techniques. Table of Contents.