How to Calculate Food Cost? Formulas for Chefs

Joris Brabants

Joris Brabants

Executive Chef 5th February 2020
Joris Brabants

Joris Brabants

Executive Chef

How to Calculate Food Cost? Formulas for Chefs

Calculate food cost and boost profit; it is one of the first lessons anyone working in the food industry learns.

And rightly so.

The average restaurant food cost percentage is between 28% and 32% of total food sales, with peaks up to 45%.

That is enormous.

Nothing worse than working hard and not making any money, right? The good news is that food cost is a manageable cost.

This post explains what the different food cost calculations are, which formulas to use and most importantly, how they help to keep costs of food under control:

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