Food prices shift every week and customer habits change every month. Here’s how to keep up with your real food cost and price your menu with confidence using a restaurant inventory management system. How often are you running your food cost numbers? For many restaurant owners, it’s a quarterly to-do, unless their accountant has a…
Afraid to raise your restaurant menu prices? Here’s how to adjust prices confidently without scaring off your regulars. You know you need to raise your prices. You’ve known for a while. Maybe your chicken costs 5% more than it did last year. Maybe your dairy rep just sent another price increase notice that’s making your…
January is one of the few moments in the year when many restaurant owners can even consider pausing and diving into a restaurant performance review. Slower traffic creates space to step back, assess what happened last year, and decide what comes next. Use this guide as a working checklist that you can return to over…
When was the last time you visited your restaurant menu pricing strategy? Despite inflation, supply chain price swings, and shifting consumer behavior, many operators still treat pricing as a “set it and forget it” decision. That is, until they look at their annual revenue and realize that their margins are razor thin. The most profitable…
Figuring out how to price your menu is one of the most important aspects of running a profitable quick service restaurant, coffee shop, or food truck. But choosing the right menu pricing method is tough! You want to turn a profit but you also don’t want to scare away your customers. So what’s the best…
Wondering what to charge for each item on your restaurant’s menu? It’s a tough nut to crack. You don’t want to be super expensive and turn people away. But on the other hand, your goal is to make money and be profitable. The best way to figure out how to price your menu is to…