LU8+ LU9 - LU9: Food & Beverage - Selling Prices & Menu Engineering

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The Hightest Pricing Method

The highest price that the manager thinks the guest will pay. -this may provide a margin of error.

The Loss Leader Method

The manager uses unusually low prices to attract guests, assuming that they will also select additional items.

These other items are necessary to meet profit requirements.   

"early bird" discount

The Intuitive Price Method

Prices are set by intuition, the manager takes a wild guess about the selling price.

Closely related is Trail-and-error pricing: if one price doesn't work, another is tested.
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Which 3 basic procedures must be in place before any objective pricing method can be used?

  1. Standard recipes
  2. Pre-costing with current costs
  3. Standard recipes must be used

Simple Mark-Up (Multiplier) Pricing Methods

  • Based on food cost for menu items
  • Designed to cover all cost and to yield the desired profit

3 steps of Ingredients Mark-up Method

  1. Determine the ingredients' cost from applicable standard recipes
  2. Determine the multiplier to mark up the ingredient's costs
  3. Establish a base selling price by multiplying the ingredients' cost by the multiplier

Base selling price

-not necessary in the final selling price, just a starting point.

Prime- ingredient mark-up method

  • Only the prime ingredients are considered
  • multiplier must be greater than the multiplier used when considering the total cost of all ingredients

Formula determining the average contribution margin required per guest

Non=Food Costs + Required Profit
Number of Expected Guests
=
Average Contribution Margin Required Per guest

3 steps of Ratio Pricing Method

  1. Determine the ratio of food cost of all non-food costs plus required profit by dividing all non-food costs plus profit by food costs.  
  2. Calculate the amount of non-food costs plus required profit for a menu item by multiplying the standard food cost of the menu item by the ratio calculated in step
  3. Determine the base selling price of a menu item by adding the result of step 2  to the standard food cost of the menu item.

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