{"id":156,"date":"2020-12-22T04:02:18","date_gmt":"2020-12-22T04:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aibi.qld.edu.au\/Hospitality\/?p=156"},"modified":"2025-05-18T08:57:48","modified_gmt":"2025-05-17T22:57:48","slug":"finally-tackle-your-food-cost-percentages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aibi.qld.edu.au\/Hospitality\/finally-tackle-your-food-cost-percentages\/","title":{"rendered":"Is this the year to tackle your food costs once and for all?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You\u2019re open \u2013 You\u2019re closed \u2013 You\u2019re open again.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chefs come. Chefs go.&nbsp; Menus change. Prices change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Do you know exactly what\u2019s happened to your food costs this year?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Do you know exactly how much each dish is adding to your bottom line?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Are your best sellers actually making you money?&nbsp; How much?&nbsp; Could they be doing better?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So many headaches \u2013 one answer:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Our new nationally accredited course: Design and cost menus<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Send along your Head Chef \u2013 Function Manager \u2013 Restaurant Manager \u2013 &nbsp;and lay the devil to rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>What will they learn?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1.&nbsp; How to identify market trends and identify target markets<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2.&nbsp; How to develop new menus for YOUR establishment. Why standard recipes matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">3.&nbsp; <strong>How to cost YOUR menus<\/strong> and tweak for profitability <strong>(free software tools you can use forever)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">4.&nbsp; How to write a menu for maximum appeal.&nbsp; Menu engineering tips and tricks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">5.&nbsp; How to monitor menu performance, and tweak it in accord with feedback and profitability<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>What will they take away?<\/strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Skills to last a lifetime<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>Free menu costing software<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>Supervised hands-on costing of some of your own menu items<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>An acute understanding of how staff behaviour affects your bottom line<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You\u2019re open \u2013 You\u2019re closed \u2013 You\u2019re open again.&nbsp; Chefs come. Chefs go.&nbsp; Menus change. Prices change. Do you know exactly what\u2019s happened to your food costs this year? Do you know exactly how much each dish is adding to your bottom line? Are your best sellers actually making you money?&nbsp; How much?&nbsp; Could they &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aibi.qld.edu.au\/Hospitality\/finally-tackle-your-food-cost-percentages\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Is this the year to tackle your food costs once and for all?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>% - Hospitality<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"%Food cost analysis\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aibi.qld.edu.au\/Hospitality\/finally-tackle-your-food-cost-percentages\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"% - 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