tommieknowspizza
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Okay I imagine your average price per pizza is about $7.00???
So on an average night you make about 150 to 160 pies.
I am assuming you don’t have a lunch you do this all between 4:00 pm and say 9:00 pm.
Learn to stager your employees in, I imagine your sales might look like this.
15% of Sales between 4:00 pm and 5:00 pm (24 Pizzas) 1 supervisor, 1 inside($6.75), & 2 drivers($12.80).
25% of Sales between 5:00 pm and 6:00 pm (38 Pizzas) 1 supervisor, 2.5 insides($17.00), & 3.5 drivers($22.40), (bring on an extra inside, and driver @ 5:30 pm)
30% of Sales between 6:00 pm and 7:00 pm (46 Pizzas) 1 supervisor, 3 insides($20.25), & 4 drivers ($25.60) (drop an inside and a driver at 7:00 pm)
20% of Sales between 7:00 pm and 8:00 pm (30 Pizzas) 1 supervisor, 2 insides($13.50), & 3 drivers($19.20) (drop and 2 insides and a driver at 8:00 pm)
10% of Sales between 8:00 pm and 9:00 pm (16 Pizzas) 1 supervisor & 2 drivers till close($12.80).
Thats Insides @ $53.50, and Drivers @ $92.80 Total Variable Labor of $150.30. I don’t know what you pay your supervisor, let say its $10/hr. Works from 2:30 pm to 10:30 pm thats $80 labor total labor $230.30, Payroll Taxes usually run about 9% of payroll so add on $20.73 for a total of $251.03 thats 22.8% to 25.1% on your average night taxes included. Learn to trim labor when you can. If you can run a these numbers you will save about 2 to 2.5% on labor or better, which at your current volume is $8 to 10,000 a year savings.
Allot of business make the mistake of having everyone come on at the same time, which kills morale on slow nights cause you have a whole bunch of people just standing around waiting.
Second, thought, drive your area, on a Friday Night Rush Hour, Drive to the farthest point in your delivery area, use a stop watch and time it. You might find that it isn’t worthwhile delivering two pizzas for $15.00 outside of a 5 mile radius. (by the way $3.00 delivery charge for deliveries between 4 & 8 miles, outside of 8 miles I would charge $6.00, and give at least half to your driver for fuel).
Third, Focus all your advertising dollars, within a five mile radius, If you don’t plan on eliminating the deliveries outside of five miles thats fine. you’ll find thought that if you focus your marketing dollars on the area that is closest to your store you will have quicker delivery times which means happier customers which means repeat business, and happier drivers as a driver can make 4 to 6 deliveries/hour inside of 5 miles, but only 1 or 2 deliveries/hour outside of 5 miles. By focusing your marketing on a smaller area you probably can cut your marketing dollars in half or better which should send more money to the bottom line.
Fourth, Scale Your CHEESE!!! If you don’t do any of the above, at least scale your cheese. this alone will probably save you, one ounce per pizza, 150 to 160 pizza’s a night, that 10 pounds a night at $2.50 lb. x 365 = about $9,000 a year.
So on an average night you make about 150 to 160 pies.
I am assuming you don’t have a lunch you do this all between 4:00 pm and say 9:00 pm.
Learn to stager your employees in, I imagine your sales might look like this.
15% of Sales between 4:00 pm and 5:00 pm (24 Pizzas) 1 supervisor, 1 inside($6.75), & 2 drivers($12.80).
25% of Sales between 5:00 pm and 6:00 pm (38 Pizzas) 1 supervisor, 2.5 insides($17.00), & 3.5 drivers($22.40), (bring on an extra inside, and driver @ 5:30 pm)
30% of Sales between 6:00 pm and 7:00 pm (46 Pizzas) 1 supervisor, 3 insides($20.25), & 4 drivers ($25.60) (drop an inside and a driver at 7:00 pm)
20% of Sales between 7:00 pm and 8:00 pm (30 Pizzas) 1 supervisor, 2 insides($13.50), & 3 drivers($19.20) (drop and 2 insides and a driver at 8:00 pm)
10% of Sales between 8:00 pm and 9:00 pm (16 Pizzas) 1 supervisor & 2 drivers till close($12.80).
Thats Insides @ $53.50, and Drivers @ $92.80 Total Variable Labor of $150.30. I don’t know what you pay your supervisor, let say its $10/hr. Works from 2:30 pm to 10:30 pm thats $80 labor total labor $230.30, Payroll Taxes usually run about 9% of payroll so add on $20.73 for a total of $251.03 thats 22.8% to 25.1% on your average night taxes included. Learn to trim labor when you can. If you can run a these numbers you will save about 2 to 2.5% on labor or better, which at your current volume is $8 to 10,000 a year savings.
Allot of business make the mistake of having everyone come on at the same time, which kills morale on slow nights cause you have a whole bunch of people just standing around waiting.
Second, thought, drive your area, on a Friday Night Rush Hour, Drive to the farthest point in your delivery area, use a stop watch and time it. You might find that it isn’t worthwhile delivering two pizzas for $15.00 outside of a 5 mile radius. (by the way $3.00 delivery charge for deliveries between 4 & 8 miles, outside of 8 miles I would charge $6.00, and give at least half to your driver for fuel).
Third, Focus all your advertising dollars, within a five mile radius, If you don’t plan on eliminating the deliveries outside of five miles thats fine. you’ll find thought that if you focus your marketing dollars on the area that is closest to your store you will have quicker delivery times which means happier customers which means repeat business, and happier drivers as a driver can make 4 to 6 deliveries/hour inside of 5 miles, but only 1 or 2 deliveries/hour outside of 5 miles. By focusing your marketing on a smaller area you probably can cut your marketing dollars in half or better which should send more money to the bottom line.
Fourth, Scale Your CHEESE!!! If you don’t do any of the above, at least scale your cheese. this alone will probably save you, one ounce per pizza, 150 to 160 pizza’s a night, that 10 pounds a night at $2.50 lb. x 365 = about $9,000 a year.
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