re: Items that must have huge profit margins

Furniture

Skilled labor.


$120 hr rate
$14 hr wage

French Fries




A 40lb case of fries is well under $20. You can get 80 orders of large fries out a case. That doesn't factor in shortening which isn't very expensive and last a while.

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I got kids to feed too

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You ever wonder why none of the six look remotely like you?

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A glass of ice tea at a restaurant. Costs $2.50 a glass and probably costs 5¢ to make

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Not really.


Machine is rented. Then put in overhead like water, gas, elec,etc.



Profit margins in restaurants are very slim tbh.


Now bars?

Case of bud light recoups its cost after a 6 pack.

Retail priced electronic and video cables.

These things are cents per foot, and often sell for dollars.

While you still have to sell a shitload of them, I have known small computer places that prospered on the basis of 'only' having a 400% markup on cost of things like HDMI, CAT5, power cables, etc.

Overhead isn't calculated in profit margin. P&L is a different story than the margin on a Coke.

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If you don't consider r&d, which is expensive as frick.

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R&D is built into the price point and profits still have a large margin.

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