{"id":9899,"date":"2016-10-07T06:00:02","date_gmt":"2016-10-07T13:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/premierfoodsafety_OLD\/?p=9899"},"modified":"2016-10-07T06:00:02","modified_gmt":"2016-10-07T13:00:02","slug":"how-to-calculate-your-food-cost-backburner-blog-by-etundra-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/how-to-calculate-your-food-cost-backburner-blog-by-etundra-com\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Calculate Your Food Cost &#8211; Backburner Blog by eTundra.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>\ndiv#keypoints {\n  margin-left: 2em; margin-top: 0.5em;\n}\nli#takeaway1, li#takeaway2, li#takeaway3 { \n}\np#quote {\n  background-color: #AFEEEE; padding: 1em; margin-top: 0.5em; font-style:italic;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div class=\"richsummary\">\n<p id=\"abstract\">When it comes to the restaurant industry, food cost is a very important and critical aspect that can either make or break any particular restaurant itself. However sometimes knowing just how to calculate your food cost can be a difficult thing to do. This article offers you the insight and a more in depth look into how to calculate your restaurants food cost.<\/p>\n<p>Key Takeaways:<\/p>\n<ul id=\"takeaways\">\n<li id=\"takeaway1\">The numbers are extremely important when it comes to owning and operating a restaurant; keeping a close watch on your profit margins.<\/li>\n<li id=\"takeaway2\">Unfortunately there are also several macroeconomic variables at play which also dictate your price per plate, one of which being what price your market will bear.<\/li>\n<li id=\"takeaway3\">Sourcing good ingredients while still providing the appropriate \u201cperceived\u201d value will be a consistent balancing act.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"quote\">&#8220;The numbers are extremely important when it comes to owning and operating a restaurant; keeping a close watch on your profit margins, food cost and price per plate is all the difference in having your doors open or closed\u2026for good.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p id=\"source\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.etundra.com\/restaurant-management-and-operations\/calculate-food-cost\/?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=Feed:+The_Back_Burner+%28The+Back+Burner%29&#038;utm_content=FeedBurner\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/blog.etundra.com\/restaurant-management-and-operations\/calculate-food-cost\/?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=Feed:+The_Back_Burner+%28The+Back+Burner%29&#038;utm_content=FeedBurner<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to the restaurant industry, food cost is a very important and critical aspect that can either make or break any particular restaurant itself. However sometimes knowing just how to calculate your food cost can be a difficult thing to do. This article offers you the insight and a more in depth look [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8115,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9899"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}