Food and Beverage Cost Control
All staff involved in a food & beverage operation face a continuing battle to try and keep their food and beverage costs under control. This food and beverage control is the management and regulation of your costs and returns of operating the catering activity in your restaurant or bar. Therefore an all-inclusive food and beverage control system is important for any type of food and beverage business regardless of its size.
This cost of food and beverage can range from 35% up depending on the type of operation. In bars and restaurants, food and beverage is usually the only source of revenue. So it is essential to lower stock and reduce costs not only in food & beverage operations, But also in any business that maintains stock levels and relies upon this stock to produce sales.
The most important point is that every member of your food and beverage team are 100% committed to making the control system work on a daily, weekly, monthly, and annual basis with no exceptions.
Chef Consulting Services can audit your food and beverage control systems for you and suggest changes where appropriate. We can also up skill existing staff members and train new staff in food and beverage control for your business. Please contact me for further details.
Menu Engineering
Menu engineering is the relationship between the
profitability and popularity of dishes on your menu and how these two factors
influence the placement of these items on a menu. Simply put the goal is to
increase profitability per customer based on popularity and profitability of
each menu item. Using these methodologies your business can increase it's
profitability by between 10% to 15% ongoing over time.
There is a lot of engineering profit available to the catering industry that gets overlooked on a daily basis by at least 60% of business. For every 100 catering establishments it is estimated that only 30 of them achieve some sort menu engineering profitability, and only about 10 are achieving maximum profitability which leaves 60 business leaving a lot of profit behind. This applies to both big and small, high and low end catering business.
The determining factors are usually the head chef/owner/manager’s knowledge of the menu and willingness to put in the time and effort needed to understand the process and implement the changes needed to achieve maximum profitability.
However Chef Consulting Services can teach your key staff how to preform this task or carry it out for you.