y2.u7.3 menu what is a menu?. what? function does a menu serve are the different types of menus...
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Y2.U7.3 Menu What is a Menu?
What?•Function does a menu serve
•Are the different types of menus
•Factors must be considered when creating a menu
•Are various methods used to price a menu
• Is needed to analyze a menu
What is a menu?
•For customers, a list that describes the food and drink offered
•For the foodservice manager it is a strategic tool that defines the purpose of the restaurant and every phase of its operation
Essential Tool
•The menu is an important working tool used to plan, organize, operate, and control back-of-the-house operations
•The menu is a published announcement of what the restaurant has to offer
•The menu is the most important communication tool for the foodservice operation
Menu as Tool
•The menu defines the purpose, strategy, market, service, and scene of an operation
•The menu defines the type of employees and servers required
•The menu defines the amount of training all employees will need
Menu as Tool
•The menu is a production plan
•The menu is a guide to purchasing
•The menu serves as a service schedule for employees
•The menu is the most important advertisement for the restaurant
•The menu helps to sell items
Menu/Market
•The menu should reflect the market•Type of restaurant, target customers,
customer needs, product availability
Commercial/Noncommercial
•Commercial includes any type of operation that sells food and beverages for profit: full-service restaurants, quick-service chains, hotel restaurants, etc.
•Noncommercial are those operations and that operate food services to support the actual purpose of the establishment: space schools, colleges, airlines, and hospitals
Menu Types
•A la Carte: offers food separately that separate prices
•Cyclical: normally institutional or non-commercial, a menu made for certain time periods that repeat
•California: lists all meals available at any time during the day
Menu Types
•Du jour: “of the day,” offers different foods each day
•Limited: offers a few selections, used often by quick-service restaurants and cafes
•Fixed: same items every day (supplement with du jour)
Menu Types
Prix Fixe: Offers multiple menu items at one price, often a choice of app, entrée, dessert
•Table d’hôte: Very similar to Prix Fixe, but price is based on entrée.
Menu Order
•Usually appetizers and soups, salad, sandwiches, entrées, vegetables, desserts, beverages
•Variety is important to customer satisfaction and can be achieved within classifications by using different cooking methods, tastes, textures, and seasonings
Menu Development Factors
•Physical layout, space
•Skill level and number of employees
•Availability of ingredients
•Target market wants and needs
•Target market expectations of offering and price
•Profit margin
Menu Development
•List all possible items
•Eliminate items
•Tailor items to fit customers, cuisine, and theme
•Choose items within the price range that can be prepared well
•Make final selections for the printed menu
•Save rejects for possible future use
Design
Medium
•Paper stock: heavy (fancy), lightweight (casual)
•Menu Board: Chalk, letter, electronic
•Spoken, memorized
Layout
•How the menu is categorized and sequenced adds to the identity of the operation: one page, many, hectic, subdued
Design
Color
•Colors offer an emotional element to identity: from sophisticated to rowdy; blue/green for seafood, red/orange for BBQ
Font
•Can highlight: italic, Bold
•Can signal personality: formal, casual, classical, modern
•Readable
Design
Art
•Straight/angled borders or curvy: images; cars/diner, flames/BBQ
Pricing
Food Percentage Method
•Often different for each menu category
•Set the percentage of menu price food cost will be (33% - 0.33)
Item food cost ÷ Food cost percentage = Menu Price
$0.75/.33=$2.27
Pricing
Contribution Margin Method
•Operation wide data to determine a dollar amount that must be added to each menu item’s food cost
•2 steps:
(total nonfood cost + target profit) ÷ Number of Customers = Contribution Margin
Contribution margin + food cost = menu price
Pricing
Straight Markup Pricing
•Markup the costs according to a formula to obtain selling price
•Margin is defined in terms of selling price
•Markup is determined in terms of costs
•Should be enough to cover operating costs and a profit
Pricing
Average Check Method
•Divide total revenue by the number of seats, average seat turnover, and days open in one year
Pricing
Set Dollar Amount Markup
•For use with major menu items
•Adds a fixed dollar amount to the food cost of an item
Food cost + Markup = Menu price
Markup = Profit per menu item + Labor cost per menu item + Operating cost per menu item
Pricing
Set Percentage Increase method
•For use with major menu items
•Builds on set dollar markup by determining what the percentage is in comparison to the items’ food cost
Food cost Percentage = Markup⨯
Markup ÷ Food cost = Percentage
Q-Factor
Accounts for misc. items such as s&p, butter, ketchup, sliced lemon, etc.
•List items, determine amounts, determine costs, add in cost
Analyzing The Menu• Important to analyze how well each item on
menu is performing after the operation has open some time (3 months).
•Look at sales volume and calculate the sales volume percentage by comparing each items’ sales against total sales
•A sales mix analysis indicates the popularity and profitability of each item •This allows decisions about which menu items to
leave alone, change price, promote, rethink or eliminate•Think about why
Analyzing The Menu•Star: popular and profitable, generally leave
alone, test increasing price or methods to sell more
•Plow horse: popular less profitable, possibly raise price but are often sensitive price increases
•Puzzle: unpopular and very profitable, reposition, promote, sample- possibly lower price
•Dog: unpopular and unprofitable, eliminate, increase price to puzzle
Analyzing The MenuBakeCartAna
A B C D E F G H
ItemName # SoldMenu Mix %
Selling Price
Item Food Cost
Item Contri-bution Margin (D-E)
Total Revenue (BxD)
Total Food Cost (BxE)
Total Item Contri-bution Margin (G-H)
Contri-bution Margin Category
Menu Mix % Category
Menu Item Class
Cup Cakes 48 0.119 0.75 0.33 0.42 36 15.84 20.16 0 1 PlowhorseTruffle 47 0.116 1 0.33 0.67 47 15.51 31.49 1 1 StarMuffin 29 0.072 0.75 0.18 0.57 21.75 5.22 16.53 1 1 Star
Foggie 44 0.109 0.5 0.5 0 22 22 0 0 1 PlowhorseSourdough 8 0.02 2 0.6 1.4 16 4.8 11.2 1 0 PuzzleCinnamonBun 44 0.109 1.25 0.46 0.79 55 20.24 34.76 1 1 Star
Xcookie 0 0.12 0.375 0.12 0.255 0 0 0 0 1 PlowhorseDoughnut 42 0.104 0.75 0.23 0.52 31.5 9.66 21.84 1 1 Star
Brownies 41 0.101 0.75 0.46 0.29 30.75 18.86 11.89 0 1 Plowhorse Pepperoni Rolls 33 0.081 1 0.34 0.66 33 11.22 21.78 1 1 StarPotato Rolls 11 0.027 0.75 0.09 0.66 8.25 0.99 7.26 1 0 Puzzle
Potato Rolls (4) 24 0.059 0.5 0.09 0.41 12 2.16 9.84 0 1 PlowhorseFriands 34 0.084 0.75 0.21 0.54 25.5 7.14 18.36 1 1 Star 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Total 405 13 338.75 133.64 205.11
H/G 0.394509 Average Contribution Margin 0.506444
Mix Percentage Rate 0.053846