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The dining room was full all weekend, and the invoices still ate everything the register took in.
We cost every recipe, track actual against theoretical and engineer the menu so St. Clair County businesses make money on every job.
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St. Clair County
It is Sunday night in St. Clair County after the busiest weekend in a month. You count the drawer and feel good, then you open the week's invoices and see the price of your main protein jumped again, the produce order doubled, and somehow the margin went backward.
With food cost control in place, every menu item has a recipe card and a plate cost that updates when your supplier prices change. A weekly count compares what you should have used against what you actually used, and the menu gets sorted by what sells and what earns.
You price with confidence instead of fear. Waste and over-portioning show up in the numbers, the dishes that carry your margin get the best spot on the menu, and a supplier price jump becomes a decision you make on Monday, not a surprise at the end of the month.
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3,001 businesses operate in St. Clair County. Clean numbers and steady systems are what let one of them pull ahead.
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Small changes in pricing and costs add up fast. Try your own revenue.
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Added profit each year
$45,000
Yearly revenue times the margin points gained.
Fix this in St. Clair CountyWe build recipe cards and plate costs for every item using your current invoices.
We set up a weekly count and compare what you used to what your sales say you should have used.
We sort items by popularity and profit and recommend price, portion and placement changes.
Each week you see food cost, waste and price changes, and we adjust with you each month.
What we report every month: Actual food cost versus theoretical, Plate cost changes on top items, Waste logged, and Margin by menu category.
Food cost is what you spent on food in a period divided by your food sales in that same period. To get it right you need beginning inventory, purchases and ending inventory. Plate cost is the same idea for a single item, built from the recipe card.
The fee depends on the size of your menu, how many locations you run and whether you want ongoing weekly counts and reports. A small menu at one spot is a short setup. Multiple locations with shared prep and frequent specials need more work and ongoing support.
Theoretical food cost is what your sales say you should have used based on recipe cards. Actual is what your counts show you really used. The gap between them is waste, over-portioning, comps, theft or recipe drift, and closing that gap is where most of the money is.
Menu engineering sorts each dish by how much it sells and how much it earns. Dishes that do both get the best spot on the menu. Dishes that sell but earn little might need a price or portion change, and dishes that do neither might come off the menu.
Know your plate cost on your top sellers and check it whenever supplier prices change. Small, regular price moves are easier on customers than one big jump. Changing a portion, a garnish or a side can protect margin without touching the price.
Easy, but it tells you the month went wrong after it is over.
Helps a lot, but they need recipe cards and a system before they can manage the numbers.
We cost every recipe, set up weekly counts and reports, and engineer the menu with you.
Who you are dealing with
Before Rebuild Detroit, Tevin Jackson helped scale more than 100 home service brands with marketing, sales and operations. Business Services is that playbook, run for St. Clair County businesses with the local numbers on this page, by the team behind the Rebuild Detroit directory.
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