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management
Measuring Your Metrics
From food ingredient costs to labor expenses, the cost of
results by 4. That's your price. This calculation was a common
doing business as a retail bakery owner is perhaps the single
practice in the retail bakery business in the 1950s and '60s
most important factor in determining your success or failure.
when labor was more plentiful and wages were low.
As Rick Crawford writes in his comprehensive book, "Opening
and Operating a Retail Bakery," sales per labor hour are "huge
Basing the health of your retail business off of gross margins
targets. So many things have to be right. Your workflow, batch
became a much more common practice over the years, as
size, inventory levels are just the start."
labor costs and other intangible costs rose. In its simplest
form, gross margin can be calculated by taking your net sales
Crawford, managing partner of the RPIA Group, points out
and subtracting labor, materials (or ingredient costs) and
that when you achieve your dollars per labor hour targets, your
packaging. A good goal in this method would be to achieve a
wage percentage is always in line.
44-46% gross margin.
A good rule of thumb about key matrixes for retail bakeries
When determining net margins, always remember to factor
to follow can be found in the chart below. If your percentages
in all costs - both direct and indirect. According to studioD
match up, your operation is probably in pretty good shape. But
Accounting, the extra energy you use to run your production line
if your percentages are higher in key areas like payroll or ingre-
increases your utility bill and is a direct cost of production. When
dient costs, you may need to adjust retail prices or make other
an expense benefits several areas of your business, such as your
changes to ensure sustainable profitability.
rent or insurance, this is an indication that it's an indirect expense.
Some direct costs are fixed, such as the mortgage on your
Food Costs & Pricing
production facility or a shift manager's salary. Other expenses,
The US restaurant industry does a great job of tracking indus-
such as the cost of material you use to make your product, are
trywide matrixes and provides a valuable comparison for you
variable because they change based on your production levels.
to put your operation up against.
Restaurants are typically more expensive to run than retail
KEY BAKERY MATRIXES
bakeries, but here are the latest figures. Food and nonalcoholic
Annual sales of retail bakery
beverage costs represented a median of 32 percent of total
$500,000
32%
$750,000
33%
$1,500,000
39%
Ingredients
26%
24%
23%
Rent and utilities
10%
10%
10%
Paper/packaging
materials
7%
6%
5%
Finished goods
8%
8%
5%
Repairs
2%
3%
4%
food and nonalcoholic beverage sales in June 2016, up slightly
from 31 percent in April and May, according to a new National
Payroll
Restaurant Association survey.
At 33 percent, casual dining operators reported the highest ratio
in April. Fast casual operators came in the lowest, at 28 percent.
There are several different methods for retail bakeries to calculate food costs and determine profitable pricing parameters.
One is the 25 percent rule in which you determine yield per
batch and the cost to make each item and then multiple the
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AIB Launches New Certification
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