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Restaurant Marketing: Create Your Own Sales Matrix
07 Jul
By Jeffrey Summers, check, control, cost, guest, hotel, loyalty, marketing, Restaurant-Food, worksheet, 1 Comment

Restaurant Marketing: Create Your Own Sales Matrix

How Much More Can You Make Per Year, If You Increase Your Average Check or Shave Costs By Only A Few Pennies Per Guest? Click here to find out by using our free Guest Check Worksheet.   Share PostEmailSHG Google+ Community

Why Cost Ratios Don’t Matter
06 Jul
By Jeffrey Summers, control, cost, foodservice, hotel, menu, ratio, restaurant, Leave a comment

Why Cost Ratios Don’t Matter

Question: What opportunities can you uncover from simply looking at labor, food and beverage cost ratios? Share PostEmailSHG Google+ Community

Food Cost Is Not A Percentage
30 Jun
By Jeffrey Summers, controls, cost, food, 2 Comments

Food Cost Is Not A Percentage

It’s real dollars and your profitability can suffer if you think otherwise Did you ever pay an invoice to one of your suppliers with a check that had the amount being paid expressed as a percentage? I didn’t think so. When we pay for food (aka, our food cost), we don’t spend percentages we spend … Continue reading »

New Business Startup: Cost Segregation
09 Jun
By Paul Correa, accounting, cost, IRS, new store openings, segregation, startups, Leave a comment

New Business Startup: Cost Segregation

Or How To Use the IRS to Help Fund Operations and Growth Share PostEmail

What Is Menu Engineering?
06 Jun
By Jeffrey Summers, cost, engineering, food, foodservice, hotel, menu, restaurant, 1 Comment

What Is Menu Engineering?

Menu Engineering is a mathematical model for analyzing the relative sales/profit earning potential of the individual items on a menu and helps you focus on actual profit returned from a menu, rather than the usual focus on the percentage cost of menu items. Share PostEmailSHG Google+ Community

QFO: Food-Court Leases
05 Jan
By Jeffrey Summers, control, cost, court, food, lease, Restaurant-Food, 2 Comments

QFO: Food-Court Leases

We are more than happy to answer restaurant or hotel questions from operators on any issue here on the “How We See It” blog.

Food Cost Basics
19 Apr
By Jeffrey Summers, cost, food, foodservice, hotel, restaurant, Leave a comment

Food Cost Basics

A major part of your prime cost is food cost. Food cost can be calculated as follows: Net food purchases ÷ Net food Sales (Net means after the change in inventory) Costing out the menu is crucial to controlling food costs. The easiest place to begin is at the bar due to price control. From … Continue reading »

Food Cost Is Not A Percentage
26 Aug
By Jeffrey Summers, cost, food, foodservice, hotel, ratios, Restaurant-Food, Leave a comment

Food Cost Is Not A Percentage

It’s real dollars and your profitability can suffer if you think otherwise Share PostEmailSHG Google+ Community

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