Food Costs Formula: How to Calculate Restaurant Food Cost Percentage (Updated)

[@Therestaurantboss]

How do you calculate food cost in your restaurant? What about plate cost?

[@MichelLajeunesse]

As a culinary arts student preparing to start a Mobile Food Service business (food truck) your resources are an asset to a new entrepreneur. Thank you for sharing your expertise.

[@Therestaurantboss]

Wow - thank you so much! Have you grabbed a copy of my free book yet? It will help you from start to finish! www.TheRestaurantBoss.com

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[@steveazulay8233]

How was your culinary experience?

[@BlankScreenSessions]

As a chef, it's always nice to hear a fresh take on food costs.. thanks Ryan!

[@Therestaurantboss]

As a recovering chef (LOL!), I truly appreciate this.

[@sakibomb9393]

Fast fwd to 4 min for info video to finally start

[@RenatoRo]

Thnk you so much for this video. I was about to lose my mind trying to calculate it down to the penny. And, now that you mention it, I think you are right. Now I can see that My prices are more than ok and I can play with prices a little bit more.

[@tinuvarghese3942]

I learnt to calculate food cost with the help of your previous F.C video...

[@Therestaurantboss]

Awesome!!!

[@chr0nos0502]

Hey there! I am using these calculations for a long time and it's helping me to help my clients make more money. About pro-s and cons between COGS and Rolling COGS. What I like to do is a weekly inventory on all beverage items, because usually here we have a lot of spillage, theft or employees drinking, inviting their friends etc. So I do weekly inventory and calculate a more accurate Foodcost% on all the beverages and in the kitchen I also use rolling COGS, and periodically do inventories just to compare usage to sales in order for me to see if I have to adjust recipes or not. I also own (I think) the best solution for doing inventory fast an all the beverages :) Not looking to advertise here so I am not gonna leave a link, but if anyone is interested just leave a comment. Thanks and great job doing these videos.

[@Truublu4u]

im interested

[@johnnysaby]

Good day Sir,How to cost and price 4 course set menu and seafood buffet with beverage included and without

[@Therestaurantboss]

Your food cost is always going to be the usage divided by the sales. You'll have to estimate the amount of food that each person will each, on average, and base your costs on that estimation. -Dawn, Team TRB

[@courageous_tin3882]

I am new of this position. From a Restaurant Manager to a Food and Beverage Supervisor. During my tenure of being a restaurant manager, didn't try food costing cause our items by pack. Now in my position food costing is necessary. Want to hear some advice. Thank you.

[@Therestaurantboss]

I hope this was helpful!

[@courageous_tin3882]

Yeah! Very helpful for me. Thanks!

[@massi8231]

Is click bacon available in europe?if not please suggest the leader s tool for manager in 2022 ? thanks boss

[@Therestaurantboss]

Absolutely! We have people all over the world using it :) www.clickbaon.com Dawn - Team TRB

[@BlackBoardBarBQ]

Considering I have been obsessing over food costs at the request of our investor this video almost had me in tears. HAHA not sure it was tears of relief or sadness because I have wasted so much time and energy.

[@UNIQUEINDIANofficial]

While calculating food cost do we need to include the cost of paper items used in packing the food ?

[@Therestaurantboss]

Depends on how they are used? If you only offer delivery/to-go yes. If not, then it's a direct operating expense.

[@kikayforever4259]

Im accountant for the food and beverage, i feel very hapy exactly same computation the food cost i made. 😊

[@Therestaurantboss]

Good job! Not many bookkeepers/accountants get things right for restaurants! -Dawn, Team TRB

[@BDonOne]

Hi, with inventory based COGS, does the amount you order matter? As long as it’s counted it shouldn’t right?

[@kevinbarrett8203]

It depends. Things like meat, can goods, produce etc… your fine cause you will eventually sell it. Things like Togo supplies, cleaning supplies, chemicals etc… once bought you won’t make money off that. So keep you operating supply’s purchases low as possible. Especially chemicals.

[@spotindex]

So what to do when questions has Only the costs of the groceries n without price sales I want to know how to crack that😢

[@mescnick]

solid video man, helps

[@kabsahhaswiah4307]

Please How could we reach you for consultation

[@Therestaurantboss]

Hi! All of the details are here: therestaurantboss.com/work-with-me/

[@1500RAJU]

I have a very large restaurant in Myanmar. I want to make it run systematically. Could you help me with that ?

[@Therestaurantboss]

We have tons of resources to get you started. Check out the free toolkit we have on the site: www.therestaurantboss.com/toolkit The next step for more help would be our TRB Membership. It's all our training programs plus 2 group calls with Ryan every month. It also includes all past trainings over the past 2.5 years: www.therestaurantboss.com/membership To move the fastest, you can schedule a one-on-one with Ryan to get tips, suggestions, coaching and shortcuts; www.therestaurantboss.com/coaching Hope that helps! -Dawn, Team TRB

[@cric_vision-t5w]

SO food cost and plate cost are two different things? But I do see them overlap at some point. Like for example to calculate the both, you always take the cost, divide it by sales or sales price x 100. Only difference I see is that food cost includes time period whereas plate cost has no time duration involved. It only sees the cost required to prepare a plate of food.

[@Therestaurantboss]

Yep, you've got it - they're different but it's a big difference. Food cost is across your restaurant over a period of time and plate cost is just what it costs you to make that specific plate of food. -Dawn, Team TRB

[@cric_vision-t5w]

@@Therestaurantboss Understood thank you so much for explaining!

[@courageous_tin3882]

Any advice whom I call to make my spreed sheet of food cost with automatic formula. I have no idea.

[@Therestaurantboss]

Hi Christina! We have software that helps you with that. It's super simple and gives you everything you need in a financial dashboard. Check it out: www.clickBACON.com

[@courageous_tin3882]

Thank you so much!

[@DarthissGameplays]

How should I calculate my plate cost? Should I only account for food, or should I add rent, labor, etc??

[@Therestaurantboss]

Only food. This FAQ answer might help: clickbacon.com/restaurant-food-cost/

[@meatmissle1459]

How did you determine the plate cost at $10?

[@Therestaurantboss]

The $10 just represents what you charge for the plate of food. In our example, Ryan chose $10 as the cost of purchasing a burger. If the burger costs you $2.50 to make, then you will divide $2.50 by $10 to get your plate cost. We have all the basic financial formulas available inside our free Restaurant Owners Toolkit. It also has a ton of other resources inside. Grab it here: www.therestaurantboss.com/toolkit -Dawn, Team TRB

[@Chris-eu2ls]

@@TherestaurantbossHow do you figure out the cost of the burger? I’m having trouble with this part.

[@massi8231]

can i easily copy all my invoices directly to clik bacon tool??

[@Therestaurantboss]

Absolutely. As long as your POS system can provide you with your reports, we can map them for you so you can drag and drop your files. Dawn - Team TRB

[@robertmohler7426]

I suppose you also don’t think you should do monthly inventory or have pars?

[@Therestaurantboss]

Hey Robert! I definitely have my opinions on inventory as you can tell from the video. I explain more in this video...check it out: therestaurantboss.com/do-not-teach-restaurant-inventory/ Then let me know what you think....

[@altafmukadam7686]

Ryan you are smart & clever 👍🏻

[@JoseAlonsoCardenas]

Hospitality and creating loyal customers

[@olespanishcuisine2355]

what is the cost of my frying oil as an ingredient, how to calculate it?

[@Grant849]

Just write that off as supplies or food supplies. You'll pull your hair out trying to figure out how much food frying oil yields

[@Therestaurantboss]

This ☝️ -Dawn, Team TRB

[@lifeinmotion4192]

I was legit just wondering how TRB does plate cost! 👍 I'm beginning to think TRB is listening to my thoughts 🤔

[@Therestaurantboss]

LOLOLOLOLOL!!!!!

[@joseg5511]

Great Stuff 💯

[@aliciablucher2023]

Thank you heaps

[@Therestaurantboss]

You're so welcome Alicia! -Dawn, Team TRB

[@kaweesafrancis743]

Bless you Ryan

[@hrhOSports]

My question how to calculate food cost for a plate cost?

[@Therestaurantboss]

Your plate cost is the same formula, just smaller. What the plate costs you to make divided by what you sell it for x 100. EG If it costs you $2.50 to make and you sell it for $10.00: 2.50 ÷ 10.00 x 100 = 25%. - Dawn, Team TRB

[@DetraDDavis]

$2,500 / $10,000 = .25 x 100 or 25%. Does this mean you spent $2,500.00 to produce the food? or after food cost you had $7,500.00 left?

[@Therestaurantboss]

Hi Detra! That means you spent $2,500 on the items to make the food. It doesn't equate to $7,500 in the bank because there are also labor costs, direct operating expenses, etc. that factor your bottom line.

[@manjularuhunage5979]

this moment very difficult do everything because is because

[@desireesteptoe628]

Things are affected into my food cost that the kitchen isn’t making profit off of like nonalcoholic beverages, paper goods for the bar pics Bev. Naps bar, fruit bar simple, syrups, coffee tea iced tea is all purchased through food cost also toiletries These are things my kitchen sees no profit off of we run brunch every day and purchase orange juice and apple juice and other things and that profit is not seen in my food cost Please explain to me how messed up this is. Your response is going to mean the world to me because the owners don’t understand that these are not things that should be coming out of food cost your response will be something that I bring up in my meeting. They are giving me hell about food cost and a good 15% of what I buy is for the bar and I see no profit so my food cost is high.

[@charleswilson4080]

Interesting

[@Justmechillin07]

Yea I don’t agree with no inventory

[@Therestaurantboss]

Just curious, but why not? -Dawn, Team TRB

[@Justmechillin07]

@@Therestaurantboss no way to control cogs especially non food items from paper goods etc. Inventory can also have managers on top of their walk in management

[@baxterismyyoutubename5077]

Ooh that was u 7 years ago or now 9 years ago, i just watch your 7 years ago not realising it was you... I thought u r a different person because u change alot in appearance.. 😅

[@1001zaki]

Hey Ryan I never knew that you can act man😅😅. Thank God you didnt get in to the acting field otherwise Tom cruise and brad pit would've got no opportunities man..

[@Therestaurantboss]

LOL an award winning performance! -Dawn, Team TRB

[@1001zaki]

@@Therestaurantboss Ryan you should come to Dubai .

[@steveazulay8233]

COGS

[@nickrulli7378]

So if you talking price of that burger. Break down how many slices of tomato, red onion, how much lettuce, 4 pickle slice, and bun? All that goes into the food cost?

[@Therestaurantboss]

It goes into the plate cost, yes. Remember, food cost is across your entire restaurant. Dawn - Team TRB

[@MNAIK887]

U talking too much come on topic about food cost

[@Therestaurantboss]

You can always advance the free videos and get straight to the part you're looking for. -Dawn, Team TRB