How to Calculate Food Cost Percentage
Food cost is one of 3 giant expenses that take a bunch of your margins. If you don't know your food cost or how to manage it, you'll be in big trouble. It is one of the numbers you MUST understand well and tinker around.
Useful Websites
Counting the Costs : A Guide to Menu & Food Costing
For someone new to the food service industry, pricing food for sale in a cafe or restaurant may appear as simple an equation as: ‘Cost of ingredients’ + ‘An adequate profit margin’.
How to Cost Your Menu to Turn a Profit
No matter how good your customer service or menu is, if your food isn’t costed properly, your business will find it challenging to survive.
Recipe Calculator
Use our recipe calculator to help you devise the right quantity, ingredients and costs.
Excel Quick and Easy
A fast, up-to-date, and convenient desk reference for Excel users of any skill level
Online Videos
Excel Formulas and Function - Tutorials for Beginners
If Excel formulas and functions have ever confused you, you're not alone. In this step-by-step tutorial, you'll learn exactly how to use formulas and functions in Excel—even if you're just getting started
Books in the Library
Basic Hotel and Restaurant Accounting
by
Raymond Cote
Today's business technology and competitive environment demand much more from hospitality accounting texts that just focusing on the traditional methods of accounting. It is imperative that accounting not be treated as a glorified bookkeeping course; merely discussing debits and credits, journalizing and other routine accounting processes is not enough to meet today's business and employer standards.
Publication Date: 2006
Cookery for the Hospitality Industry
by
G. Dodgshun
Cookery for the Hospitality Industry remains Australia's most trusted and reliable reference for commercial cookery students, apprentice chefs and those studying vocational courses in schools.
Publication Date: 2011
Hospitality & Restaurant Marketing
by
NRA
This book contains learning activities, case studies, professional profiles, research topics and more that support course objectives. The text and exam are part of the Manage First Program from the National Restaurant Association (NRA). This edition is created to teach restaurant and hospitality students the core competencies of the Ten Pillars of Restaurant Management.
Publication Date: 2012
Hospitality Accounting
by
NRA
This book focuses on Hospitality Accounting topics. It includes essential content plus learning activities, case studies, professional profiles, research topics and more that support course objectives.
Publication Date: 2012
Hospitality Management
by
by Lyn Van der Wagen
This book provides the foundation knowledge needed for the role of a hospitality manager. This edition continues to combine theory with a skills building approach to explain the key principles of hospitality management at a supervisory, line management and senior management level.
Publication Date: 2019
Managerial Accounting for the Hospitality Industry
by
L. Dopson
Though not all hospitality students want to be accountants, managerial accounting is a crucial skill for all hospitality students. Written for aspiring hospitality managers rather than accountants, this resource focuses on how accounting principles apply directly to hospitality management.
Publication Date: 2008
Principles of Food & Beverage Management
by
NRA
This text focuses on principles of food and beverage management topics. It includes essential content plus learning activities, case studies, professional profiles, research topics and more that support course objectives.
Publication Date: 2012
Purchasing
by
Andrew Feinstein and others.
Purchasing: Selection and Procurement for the Hospitality Industry, 9th Edition;is a learning-centered text that includes several pedagogical enhancements to help students quickly acquire and retain important information. It is written for those who will be involved with some phase of purchasing throughout their hospitality careers.