What Every Chef Should Know - Charging The Right Price
Release Date: 07/22/2017
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Catching up on my work on ChefTec and new systems for the UH Maui Culinary Arts Program.
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- Running a cash cow restaurant rocks.
- Volume hides a multitude of sins and fool you into thinking you're a genius.
- If you know how, you can milk it.
- Creativity isn't just about flavors and piling the food into a little towers.
- Creativity is about creating and maximizing value.
- Don't run a special or put something on the menu to only figure out three weeks later it is at 40%
- Common mistake for young chefs
- Too many ingredients
- Weird ingredients
- Weird cooking methods
- Focus on tasty
- Classics are classics for a reason - learn to execute them well.
- Make people go yum.
- Make people forget to take a picture.
- Seasoning and basic cooking techniques
- Micro vs Macro - plate cost vs case cost
- Micro - plate cost
- Chicken at $3.00 per pound with 90% yield
- 3.00/.9 = 3.33 per pound
- 5 oz = $1.25 + $1.50 for rice veggies and sauce
- $2.75/.25 = $11.00
- Macro - case cost
- $120 for a 40# case of chicken with 90% yield
- 40*.9 = 36
- 36*16/6 = 96
- 120/96 = 1.25 per portion
- Can you move 96 portions?
- Can you do something really cool to max the value of 1.25?
- Can you move five cases?
- Financial Model
- COG 25%
- Labor 35%
- Operating Expense 10%
- Occupancy 15%
- EBITDA 15%
- Find out what your is.
- In theory, pricing food to hit your target food cost will cover labor and your other expenses.
- Leave some wiggle room
- 30% target = 28% pricing
- Cheat Sheet download
- Portion cost on top
- Plate cost on the bottom
- $5.00 per pound at 80% yield and a 6 oz portion = 2.34 per portion
- Add an estimated amount for accompaniments ($2.00)
- $2.34 + $2.00 = $4.34 plate cost (round up to 4.50)
- Target 25% and you need to charge at least $18.00
- Micro - plate cost
- It is all philosophy
- Success equals attitude and competency
- How are you looking at the opportunities and challenges?
- Are you asking smart questions?
- If you sold nothing but this one new item all day would it help or hurt?
- If it would hurt you change it or drop it?
- Don't get romantic about the food get creative with it and give the customer what they want
- When people see the plate go by, do they ask what is that?
- Is the trash can in the dish pit full of food?
- Talk to the customer and find out.
- Too many chefs afraid of negative feedback.
- Grow a pair and listen.
- Hear a problem, solve it, they will be blown away
- Nobody does this!!!
- Talk to everyone
- Get the manager to teach you.
- Look for vendor specials and clearance items