re: About how much does a restaurant make off a $20 meal?

The food snob room is down the hall, turn right, third door on the left

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.

I'm sure glad I'm in the boiling crawfish business and not the full service restaurant business

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No they're not restaurants, and I wish people like you would spend their ebt credits on something other than poboys and forties. Some of us pay for that through taxes.

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You buried the punchline. You should have led with this.

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You buried the punchline. You should have led with this.

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I don't take criticism very well. You sir, just made a nemesis.

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Yep, places like mcdonalds and taco bell make most of their profit from drinks.


Naw

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Drink profits are the highest percentage wise but they make plenty off of burgers. A burger they sell for $2.00 probably cost them .65 to put together.

Could you interpret that chart that for me? Some items are apparently priced by the single, while others it sweems are by the serving.

And it gives Chicken patty as .66 and french fries as 3.44.

The fries should be per bag at that price. Everything seems to be per unit. The packaged product part is per. I've gone over something like this when my girls drop straws and wet naps on the floor.

I didn't realize so many pokes with shitty taste were in the OT

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so how big is a bag of fries at a cost of $3.44?

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The ones I used to buy at my gas station were 5 lb bags IIRC