I see it now… doh… that still seems high to me… I feel that anything over 50% comes out of the money that should be your profit… stay on top of that labor and the food sales reps. I have seen some of the houses that the food sales reps have here in California, they have a decent margin.
Casey
Are you guys saying that you run 60% food costs? Like if you sold 10k in food you would have 6k in costs? I’m pissed that i am running 24%…
I include everything except beer I run that different because sometimes its $1 drafts sometimes its normal…etc.
We are 60% dine in 30% carry out and 10%...
Rockstar,
Thanks for your updates! i took the plunge and went with the 500 a week program. If it as half as successful as yours ill change to a 30000 mailer program. Wish me luck;>
Thanks
Casey
IMO— Nothing on your menu should ever be priced 1.89 or 1.69 etc… it should allways be 1.99, 2.99, 0.99. People dont care about the difference in .89 or .99, but we do, and those dimes add up. My drinks are 1.99 refilable coke, and the only people who complain about the price are people who are...
I agree with the above post. Make your food better make your menu better and charge a little more. Instead of a 18" pizza for 10 bucks do a 18" pizza 5 wings and a 2 liter for 22? or something like that. If your gonna sell a pizza that cheap you have to up sell. I would add chicken, lots of...
What would you say your weekly % return is? So you have done 1000 menus and 5% would be 50 new people? I’m thinking of doing a deal with mail shark as well but I was waiting to see more results. For those of you out there that say they do direct mail; You just mail your menu out every week or...
We use Tyson 1 and 2 joint raw, but we fryem first.
With the Franks suace do you mix it down? With butter or anything else?
My biggest seller of wings, outside of hot and mild, is a blackberry balsalmic.
What are you paying for your wings rightnow?
LOL we ran an add…
Free small pizza unlimited toppings!
1 Large 2 topping 10 wings 16.99
4 people got the free pizza!
The large add rang my phone off the hook.
Im running the add for wed and thur only next week. One per household. City address and email is what they must give up in return. im going to give them a return in 1 week coupon.
Im running another special with team sports in my town. Bring in your team for a free team party. The team gets 2...
italy2003gt:
We have something called Penny Saver where I am and they just quoted me 50.00 per thousnd printed and mailed, as an insert in thier magazine that they send out. 8x5 x 11 .
Thanks for your help… The free pizzas I gave away on Tuesday has had a 40% return of people commong back this weekend allready to buy food. One booked a party for 20 people. Im going to take this a bit further and run an add for a small free pizza for residents in the city where im located and...
