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Don't forget to factor in the cost of your inventory.
"Identify the time wasters in your bakery," says Beth
Calculate your inventory adjustment for each 28-day
Fahey, owner of Creative Cakes in Tinley Park, Illinois.
period by recording your beginning inventory (in
"Establish ahead of time what you will and won't do."
dollars) and ending inventory. Subtract your ending
inventory from beginning and add that number to
One of the most useful practices she recommends is
total purchases. This is your total cost of food sales.
observing your staff through a time study. Knowing how
Divide this number into total sales for the 28-day
long each task requires - from responding to emails to
period to compute your food costs.
decorating an animal print cake - will go a long way
toward helping you maintain profitability in business.
Once you have figured out cost, you can begin to set up
One decorated cake example: $55.99 in ingredients,
your pricing structure. Managing customer expectations
$146.23 in direct labor and $122.40 in overhead contri-
is crucial to success. Social media and the internet have
bution. This adds up to a total direct cost of $324.62.
opened the floodgates for consumers shopping around
for signature products and looking for bargain prices.
"When you get to a high-end cake, it costs a lot of
It behooves you to get a handle on the staff time you
money to produce it, so you have to charge accord-
spend on everything from quoting cake prices via email
ingly," Fahey says. "Once you do a time study on
to decorating elaborate specialty cakes.
certain things, it's going to open your eyes."
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Editor's Note - THE WHOLESALE ISSUE: achatz “pies that fly”
Contents
Management - Top Trends For All
Technical Corner - CAKE Efficiency
Practical Marketing - The Delivery Challenge
Equipment Innovations - Earn More Dough
Pies that Fly
Perfect Pan Pizza
The True Cost of Food
Chocolate & Decorating - Making Sustainable Chocolate THE NORM
Cakes - Start Your Own Trends
Sweet Goods - Plant-Based Food Dyes & Sprinkles
Breads - Launching a New Chapter
Pastries - Growing with the NEIGHBORHOOD
THE BREAD BAKERS GUILD OF AMERICA Calendar
Foodservice - What's Hot On The Menu
Product Showcase
Classifieds
Ad Index
Formula of the Month - Herbed Tomato and Pesto FOCACCIA
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bake - February 2019 - Editor's Note - THE WHOLESALE ISSUE: achatz “pies that fly”
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bake - February 2019 - Contents
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bake - February 2019 - Management - Top Trends For All
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bake - February 2019 - Technical Corner - CAKE Efficiency
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bake - February 2019 - Practical Marketing - The Delivery Challenge
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bake - February 2019 - Equipment Innovations - Earn More Dough
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bake - February 2019 - Pies that Fly
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bake - February 2019 - Chocolate & Decorating - Making Sustainable Chocolate THE NORM
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bake - February 2019 - Cakes - Start Your Own Trends
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bake - February 2019 - Sweet Goods - Plant-Based Food Dyes & Sprinkles
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bake - February 2019 - Breads - Launching a New Chapter
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bake - February 2019 - Pastries - Growing with the NEIGHBORHOOD
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