Dear all,
Please give me details of how to calculate the cost effective of a food product. Thank you in advance for help.
Cheers
Dear Aly,
The following links give you calculation methods for the cost effective of any product including food products:
1-http://www1.agric.gov.ab.ca/$department/deptdocs.nsf/all/agdex1137
2-http://www.restaurantreport.com/departments/biz_restaurant-food-menu-pricing.html
3-https://www.sba.gov/blogs/how-calculate-cost-food-your-culinary-business-venture
How to Calculate the Cost of Food for Your Culinary Business Venture
By kmurray, Contributor and Moderator
Published: March 19, 2014
Are you hungry for information about launching your food-service small business? While there’s a lot of shared information to get started across all industries, the food industry poses unique opportunities and questions. One of the most common we see is how to calculate the cost of food.
Here’s one approach from small-business expert Sam Ashe-Edmunds, who dishes outfood-cost calculations into nine steps to help ensure that you’ll be able to keep a consistent menu, please customers and remain profitable. Here’s what he has to say:
Step 1: Pick a dish to start and list all of its ingredients – even condiments and garnishes. You’ll want to make sure that the portion for each dish is the same so that it always coststhe same.
Step 2: Calculate the cost of each ingredient. Take a head of lettuce, for example. If it costs 75 cents and you get 30 leaves, the lettuce cost for a dish that includes one lettuce leaf would be about 2.5 cents. Ashe-Edmunds reminds us to include a proportion of any expenses directly related to purchasing foods, such as delivery fees or interest.
Step 3: Add up the costs of all the ingredients for the dish, but don’t include costs for labor or actually serving the dish.
Step 4: To start figuring out if you’ve priced the meal right, divide the menu price by the food cost to calculate the percentage of the price that comes from food. If you charge $10 for a meal for which food costs are $5, then your food cost is 50 percent.
Step 5: Now, you’ll want to determine overhead cost per meal, which includes everythingnot related to food that’s required to run your restaurant. This includes things such as labor, rent, marketing, taxes, etc. So, consider what it will cost to run your restaurant on a daily basis – then divide that number by the number of customers you think you’ll serve every day. If your overhead is $1,000 per day and you have 200 customers each day, your overhead per person is $5.
TIP: Keep employee meals and food theft in this overhead figure as well, because they’re not included as direct costs to serve a meal but can’t be left out.
Step 6: Using your overhead costs as a guide, decide your ideal food-cost percentage. If you charge $10 for a meal and your overhead cost is $6, then your food costs can’t be more than $4 to break even. Want a $2 profit per meal? Then you’ll have to charge $12 for that particular dish.
Step 7: Take a look at the prices listed in your menu to figure out if they’ll cover your overhead and food costs – and if you’ll be able to make a profit. So if you’ve calculated an ideal food-cost percentage of 20 percent and a dish uses $4 of ingredients, you can’t sell that dish for any less than $20.
Step 8: You may need to calculate different food-cost percentages for different services or items, such as a breakfast menu versus dinner menu, because of different requirements – some less, some more – to satisfy each dish.
Step 9: Finally, examine your sales by item to determine if your food-cost percentages are adequate to keep your restaurant in business. If it turns out you’re selling at primarily a low cost, you might need to raise prices (or lower food costs) to be profitable.
TIP: Get a more complete picture of your food costs by checking out total food costs per service and dividing them by total sales. Then you won’t have to calculate the actual cost of each menu item.
Ashe-Edmunds’ offers just one approach to determining the cost of food. You can explore these additional resources from around the web for more insight:
How to Make Food Costs Projections For Your New Restaurant
A Quick Guide on Pricing Restaurant Menu Items
Restaurant Operations: Food And Menu Pricing For Your Restaurant
Hoping this will be helpful,
Rafik
Dear Rafik,
Thank you very much for the sites and information. Best regards Aly
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