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How Restaurants are Maintaining Profit Margins with Rising Food Costs

Horizon Hospitality

Promote high-margin dishes through strategic menu placement and server recommendations. Portion Control: Implementing strict portion control ensures consistency and reduces waste. Train staff to measure ingredients accurately and monitor portion sizes regularly.

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Restaurant Operations Overview: What You Need to Know

7 Shifts

Portion control in the kitchen saves on inventory, which helps keep the restaurant profitable. Some tools that help out in this area include restaurant accounting software, as well as processes that restrict profit loss like portion control and employee scheduling software that promotes time clocking integrity.

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How to Calculate and Improve Your Bar’s Profit Margin

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Additionally, setting consistent drink recipes and using portion control tools like jiggers can prevent over-pouring and make sure you’re getting the most out of each bottle. Regular training and spot-checks also help maintain consistency, leading to better control over pour costs and higher profitability for your bar.

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How to Read a Restaurant Profit and Loss (P&L) Statements

7 Shifts

For example, if labor costs are consistently high, you might consider optimizing staff schedules or using labor-saving equipment to reduce expenses and increase your net profit. Reviewing and optimizing staff schedules can make a big difference. You may need to adjust your staff schedules to align better with peak dining times.

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Utilizing Waste and Food Cost Control Data in Restaurants

Synergy Suite

Monitor portion control and inventory to control costs. That means 72% – 65% of the money spent by a customer on a menu item could go toward things like paying cooks, paying servers, paying rent, and taking care of any other costs needed to keep your restaurant thriving.

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2023 Outlook: Trends and Challenges Restaurants Will See, Part One

Modern Restaurant Management

Workers will access apps to take a shift or two rather than working a consistent schedule. On-Demand Apps : “On-demand” apps can allow cooks, servers, and/or bartenders to see which restaurants or bars are in need of help each night, giving them ad-hoc access to jobs. They will also demand (and get) payment upon completion.

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Prime Costs: Understanding and Application for Restaurants

Synergy Suite

Effectively managing food costs is essential for maintaining profitability and sustaining a competitive edge and involves monitoring ingredient prices, negotiating with suppliers, minimizing waste through proper inventory control, and implementing portion control practices.