Food Costs

Oh how I wish achieving restaurant profitability was only a simple math problem. But the real issues that hold restaurant owners back from achieving their desired profitability are mostly [...]

Menu costing software is critical to planning a restaurant menu. If you want to make any money in the restaurant industry, you cannot rely on the numbers you keep in your head. You can’t [...]

When it comes to restaurant menu design, you can add pictures to your menu or alter font styles and sizes, but you won’t make much of a difference in your food cost or profits if you don’t know [...]

The prime cost formula is the grand total of your total cost of goods sold, which includes both food cost and liquor (also known as pour cost), and total labor cost. (In order to have an accurate [...]

There is one system your restaurant must have to survive and most independent restaurant owners are bypassing it completely: recipe costing. Going through the process of creating recipe costing [...]

I was taught pretty early that consistently taking inventory lowers food cost. A manager walked me into a walk-in cooler and asked, “What do you see on the shelves?” I started listing what I [...]

When looking for ways to lower food cost in your restaurant, there is one thing you should accept: you can’t control food prices. There are just too many factors that go into the price your [...]

How would you like to cut food cost with two easy steps? These two “clipboard systems”- EASY – stop mistakes coming out of your kitchen. They virtually eliminate theft in your [...]

This restaurant industry podcast is an audio version of SMART Systems Insider, a video magazine from TheRetaurantExpert.com, is your fast track to lower food costs, lower labor costs, an [...]

If you run your restaurant by gut and you’re not using restaurant budgeting, I urge you to STOP.  You can’t do it anymore – the risk is just too great. In the video below I [...]