Webinar/Podcast
How to Select the Right Menu Costing App
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Knowing what each of your menu items costs you is one of the most basic yet overlooked aspects of running a profitable restaurant. Costing out your menu can be an arduous task, but you must know your menu cost before you can make intelligent decisions on cost-cutting, price increases or other changes to your menu.
There are dozens of menu and recipe costing options to choose from. Some of these options are free while others require a substantial investment of time and money.
In this 60-minute webinar, RestaurantOwner.com presenter Joe Erickson will walk you through the process of selecting and using a menu cost system. We'll also show you easy-to-use best practices for keeping your menu and recipe costs up to date.
What You Will Learn:
- Free vs. paid: How to select the best system for your budget
- Understanding the time requirements of different menu costing apps
- Working with your broadline distributor to keep menu costs current
- How to properly cost out your ingredients, batch recipes and menu items
- How to set up your POS for more accurate menu costing
- Simple method for maintaining up-to-date pricing on everything you buy
About the Presenters:
Joe Erickson
Joe Erickson is the Chief Operations Officer and a partner in RestaurantOwner.com. He has owned and/or managed several restaurant/catering operations. He started his career by developing Luther's Catering, a division of the Luther's BBQ chain, in Houston. He was also a partner and co-founder of Sunset Dinner Cruises and was the founding partner of Bobby Mac's, a casual, full service restaurant in Kerrville. He later helped to develop a southwestern bistro, Nicole's Cafe San Felipe, and was managing partner for the original Truluck's Steak and Stone Crab, which now has 11 locations throughout the U.S. Joe is focused primarily on developing easy-to-implement, yet highly effective systems and processes to help our members improve their restaurants' efficiency, product utilization and most importantly, deliver a more consistent guest experience.
Jim Laube
Jim is the founder and CEO of RestaurantOwner.com. He has a diverse 30-year career in the restaurant industry that includes various staff positions, manager, controller, CPA and advisor to hundreds of independents throughout the U.S. and Canada. Jim is a popular restaurant industry speaker and seminar leader whose clients include the National Restaurant Association, Pizza Expo, SYSCO, Food Services of America, Gordon Foodservice, the New York Restaurant Association, Walt Disney and Papa John's.
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