Calculated my 'cost per useful ingredient' - disturbing

Food Cost Management
1

Did some math that’s keeping me up at night.

Sysco Order:

  • Paid: $1,200
  • Actually used: $780
  • Cost per useful dollar: $1.54

BoxNCase Order:

  • Paid: $800
  • Actually used: $760
  • Cost per useful dollar: $1.05

I’m paying $1.54 for every dollar of food I actually use with sysco.

That 54 cents is pure waste. On everything. Every week.

$1,200/week x 54% waste premium x 52 weeks = $33,696/year in waste premium.

THIRTY THREE THOUSAND.

I could hire another cook. I could renovate. I could actually make profit.

boxncase savings calculator helped me see this.

2

the ‘cost per useful dollar’ metric is brilliant. using this in my next investor meeting

3

showed this to my partner and we’re switching tomorrow. we had no idea it was THIS bad