Food And Menu Pricing For Your Restaurant

One thing I’ll never forgive formal culinary schools for, is teaching new impressionable would-be chefs to use a budgeted cost percentage to price food menus. Chain restaurants share an equal responsibility for perpetuating this bad practice by focusing their managers on food cost percentages without letting them in on the secret that the cost percentage [...]

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Restaurant Marketing, Menu Preparation and Food Variety

Howard Moskowitz has consulted many companies in the food industry to help them discover profitability through offering variety. Clients include Pepsi, Prego, Ragu and many others. I recommend watching this video of author and speaker Malcolm Gladwell as he details revelations of Howard’s research and life experiences. Things to note: People don’t often know what they want There [...]

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