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About how much does a restaurant make off a $20 meal?
Posted on 8/10/14 at 5:47 pm
Posted on 8/10/14 at 5:47 pm
After cost of the food and paying for whatever wages were involved in process.
Posted on 8/10/14 at 5:48 pm to ReauxlTide222
depends on the place and the food
Posted on 8/10/14 at 5:49 pm to ReauxlTide222
not much. restaurant margins are small as frick
Posted on 8/10/14 at 5:49 pm to ReauxlTide222
It depends on how much booze and soda you buy.
Posted on 8/10/14 at 5:50 pm to ReauxlTide222
About $6, but margins on drinks are insane
Posted on 8/10/14 at 5:50 pm to ReauxlTide222
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This post was edited on 6/11/23 at 1:47 pm
Posted on 8/10/14 at 5:58 pm to ReauxlTide222
Any place that you can get a meal for twenty dollars is not a "restaurant", it's just fast food for trash and poor people.
Posted on 8/10/14 at 6:38 pm to ReauxlTide222
not much, if opening a real money maker, I think a cheap place, managed well is the way to go.
When you have the big bucks, then try that fancy place, if it fails, what the hell..
When you have the big bucks, then try that fancy place, if it fails, what the hell..
Posted on 8/10/14 at 6:51 pm to ReauxlTide222
I know I'll get a bunch of OT bullshite but I'll answer this for those who are curious. My average profit is $1.07 per guest. Now the first thing some will say is because I work at a trashy restaurant that isn't worth a shite. Click on the next thread please. There are a lot of other costs associated with running a restaurant. It's not food, labor, and utilities. My store is extremely efficient when it comes to food and labor. Restaurants do shoot for the 30% mark and I average a 27%. The labor mark is usually 14% and I'll run an 11-12%. What's making margins shrink are things like workman's comp, liability, and unemployment. Now the one thing that is starting to erode my profit margin are the guests themselves. The demands of the market are lowering profit margins and raising the amount of time you sit there waiting for your food. I've been tracking the amount of what constitutes special order for us. These usually cause us to use extra product in an effort to satisfy the guest. They also creates more steps in making an order and longer ticket times. That's a different story though.
Posted on 8/10/14 at 9:05 pm to ReauxlTide222
Impossible to say without more info
Posted on 8/10/14 at 9:13 pm to ReauxlTide222
The answer is $7.
If you serve alcohol, then it's much more.
But the answer to your $20 question is about $7.00, if you are talking about your standard restaurant.
Eta: in 2006 a 32 oz Coke cost .22 cents.
If you serve alcohol, then it's much more.
But the answer to your $20 question is about $7.00, if you are talking about your standard restaurant.
Eta: in 2006 a 32 oz Coke cost .22 cents.
This post was edited on 8/10/14 at 9:16 pm
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