Recipe Costing
Income Statement
Menu
Methods to Control Costs
General
5

If ground beef costs $3.98 # and the yield % is .96, what is its cost per #?

What is $4.14 #

5

Another name for a Profit and Loss statement is:

What is Income Statement?

5

When each item on the menu has a separate price, it is an _______ _______ _______.

What is an à la carte menu?

5

A meal offered for one price is called?


What is Table d'Hôte

5

What are the elements /components of an income statement?

  • Sales
  • Cost of Sales
  • Gross Profit or Contribution Margin
  • Expenses
  • Income before taxes
  • Taxes
  • Income after taxes
10

Revenue for The M & M  Restaurant on Sunday was $950.00. The food served cost $325. What was the food cost %?

What is 34.2%

10

Sales -cost of sale = _______ _______ or ________

________

What is Gross Profit or Contribution Margin?

10

A menu wherein items are regularly repeated and is normally written for a week or more.  There are several benefits, including control factors, which are associated with this type of menu.          

What is a cyclical menu?

10

Standards are the driving force of operation and cost containment. What are two requirements standards must meet?

What is  they must be :

  • Feedback from employees and guests
  • Standards must be evaluated
  • Standards must be attainable
  • Standards must be improved, once attained?
10

What are some examples of controllable expenses?

  • Payroll & employee benefits
  • Direct operating expenses
  • Marketing
  • Energy & utilities
  • Administrative & general
  • Repair and maintenance
15

If a restaurant's  food cost is 35 %, that means:

 What is for every dollar generated in sales they spent $.35 in food.

15

A. Beginning Inventory + Purchases=

B. Beginning Inventory + purchases - _________ ______=Cost of Goods Used

A.What is the total goods available?

B. What is ending inventory?

15

Which is not a factor when designing a menu?

A. Location

B. Demographics

C. Competition

D. Employee preferences

 What are employee preferences?

15

Food storage of items must be safeguarded using the ______________ method.

What is the ABCD Method?

15

In hospitality operations, what should be controlled?

  • Labor/staff
  • Food & beverage
  • Purchasing
  • Storage
  • Preparation
  • Serving
20

.  What are some examples of some non-controllable expenses?

Rent

Depreciation

  • Property taxes
20

The difference between the Cost of Goods Used and Cost of Goods sold are:

What is cost of employee meals, transfers in or transfers out?

20

What is the selling price of a menu item (Lasagna) if it costs $6.25 to produce and the food cost % is .35 %?

What is $ 17.85?

20

In order to control food and beverage costs managers must have _______ in place for storeroom control? 

What is have a person responsible for issuring items from the storeroom, manage inventory, keeping costs accurate.

20

Why do businesses fail? name 4 factors

  • What are?

  • Lack of working capital’
  • Inexperienced managers
  • The inability to control 
  • operational procedures
  • The vast amount of competition
  • Employee theft
  •  Wrong location
  • Choosing the wrong concept
25

Given the operation result, what are some ways success can be measured?

What is ratio analysis, comparing results with budget?

25

What are the methods of forecasting?

What is:

Sales force estimates

Moving averages

Decomposition - time series

trends, cyclical, seasonal, randomness

Simple time 

Smoothing

Executive opinion

Delphi method - formal process?

25

 What are two types of budgets?

What is

•Static (fixed

•Flexible

25

Break-even formula

Break-even =   FC     or     FC

                     1-VC%       CM%

Fixed Costs $25,000

VC              20%

What is  $31,250?

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What are the benefits of forecasting and budgeting?

What is

Staff properly

Control costs

Make decisions

Plan strategically

Maximize profits

Standard of comparison

Set prices accordingly?


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