MENU COST
Find the Perfect Food Cost Percentage for Your Restaurant
Finding the right balance of flavors for a signature dish or recipe is key for any restaurant owner. It takes precise measurements and a lot of hard work behind the scenes before your restaurant guests take their first bite. This same level of care and precision should be put into accurately pricing every dish. It’s not always easy to figure out the right percentage for a dish based on labor and cost of ingredients. Thankfully, the KUNA team is here to help.
There are several methods to figuring out the right cost percentage for your business, which is why we always sit down with you at the beginning to go over the options, point out things to consider, and figure out the right plan for you.
Actual Food Cost
From ingredient costs to portion sizes, figuring out your actual food cost can takes skills and attention to detail that some restaurant owners don’t have as much time as they’d like for. Our team can look at your cost of ingredients, estimated food waste, food supply costs, beginning inventory, and more to figure out menu pricing to help you yield a profit. We work with restaurants of all sizes, including small businesses to compare cost of food with cost of good sold and all the factor in between. Menu engineering can be tricky, but our team is just as knowledgeable about food sales as they are on food service distribution.
Labor Cost
Determining ideal food costs can be especially hard when dealing with service restaurants and factoring in labor costs. Your total cost is always going to include some form of labor, and so when determining the right food cost percentage for your business it’s important to not forget about the people in the kitchen and your wait staff. Just as each of these individuals have a hand in dishing out a quality product, they also affect your profit margin. We will work with you to help consider all these factors when determining your menu pricing so that your labor doesn’t have a negative effect on your total food sales.
Food Cost Formula Designed for You
If only there was a universal food cost calculator. But just like there are many kinds of menu items and types of restaurants, there’s a lot that goes into figuring out your profit margin. Our knowledge and experience in helping businesses throughout the Midwest for over 100 years is why restaurants owners trust KUNA to help them make the hard decisions that ultimately affect their bottom line. We have assisted businesses with food purchases, menu prices, food cost percentage and more, and we will continue to help our partners in the food industry find success.
