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Restaurant Accounting: A Comprehensive Guide

7 Shifts

Restaurant accounting isn’t easy. Learning basic accounting is like studying a different language, regardless of how many decades you have in the restaurant industry. Learning basic accounting is like studying a different language, regardless of how many decades you have in the restaurant industry. Sounds complicated?

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Sales Mixes: Analyzing Food Costs and Pricing

Modern Restaurant Management

The data to analyze with food is the following: food sales, food costs, sales mixture, food inventory, cost of goods sold, menu pricing, invoice reviews for accuracy of pricing, stock on hand, beginning and end of day protein counts, and daily sold items. They have to price it on the menu and add it to the inventory.

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What Restaurant Owners Need to Know About Dual Pricing

Modern Restaurant Management

One of the more popular solutions to helping a business thrive is dual pricing credit card processing. What is Dual Pricing? Dual pricing is a payment model that allows businesses to implement two different prices for credit card transactions. A perfect example of dual pricing is a gas station.

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Is There a Right Way to Raise Prices?

Modern Restaurant Management

Due to many factors including inflation and supply chain challenges, restaurant owners and operators have been faced with tough choice about raising menu prices. As food prices rise, restaurants should try to stay within their target ratio for food cost to gross food revenue in order to maintain target profits.

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How Does the Seasonal Transition Affect Produce Price and Availability?

Modern Restaurant Management

These two states account for over 98 percent of the lettuce produced in the U.S, Any weather-related issues can have a dramatic effect on supply and prices as lettuce transitions from one area to the next. If demand picks up unexpectedly, this could lead to supply shortages, higher pricing and pro-rates throughout the industry.

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Hotel Pricing & Distribution: Right Prices on the Right Channels

Revenue Hub

Knowing where to list your hotel and the prices to charge can be tricky, especially for busy operators of small, independent properties. Here we explain the essentials of hotel distribution and pricing. In Europe, OTAs accounted for an incredible 76% of bookings, compared to 64% in Asia Pacific and 48% in North America.

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FoodByUs unveils game-changing ‘Price Tracking’ feature

Hospitality Magazine

FoodByUs, Australia’s largest online hospitality wholesale ordering platform, has launched a new feature, Price Tracking, designed to help the more than 90,000 independently owned Australian restaurants, cafes and caterers access real-time pricing visibility across all items and suppliers. The result?

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