O’Dell Restaurant Consulting Blog

You can greatly improve your cash flow by adopting a policy of smaller, more frequent price increases instead of waiting for a year or longer before raising prices a larger increment.
Use this simple example to catch my drift:
Chicken tenders $5.99 from January 2008 - January 2009
Price raised to $6.99 after January 2009
4000 orders of [...]

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Is the cost of food and supplies less when you own a franchise because of their buying power, or the same, or even more because of kick-backs from suppliers?
The franchise I am looking at shows cost of goods to be from 34% - 38%.
This sounds a little high to me. Is this what the norm [...]

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