Cooking4Fun
Senior Cook
What type of restaurants are the most profitable? I have read pizzerias have as much as a 600% markup on many items and yet after overhead may only get 5 to 10% profit. Which restaurant types do the best?
Yeah I like to make it count too. Lol.Incredibly small portions
Exorbitant prices that you don't know until the bill comes
Inebriated people with lots of money to spend
Located in the richest counties and towns
Staff that gets minimum wage or less
Can you tell I prefer to eat out less than once a year, if I must.
I actually think that only those extremely overpriced restaurants have those extremely small portions. And I think part of the problem with the American diet is the extremely large sizes they started making, whenever it was they started doubling the sizes, and the prices - it was more profitable to make a double meal, and send half of it home with a customer in one of those Styrofoam containers, and basically, they had 4 meals, with just 2 customers. But many people just started eating the double meals...or more.Incredibly small portions
You and me both! The last time I ate at a restaurant was when my sister passed away, in March, 2019, and a bunch of us gathered at a favorite Chinese restaurant of hers. And the last time I ordered something, to be delivered, was in 199...something, when some friends were over one day to bake Christmas cookies, and we stopped after about 4 hours, and we got 2 pizzas, and ate them in my living room (the dining room table was getting full, and no way to cook in the kitchen!).Can you tell I prefer to eat out less than once a year, if I must.
I mean profit. I suppose gross income might help indicate stability and flow of customers, but I'm interested in cost per day and money gained per day.By profitable are you talking about net profit or gross sales?
...And I think part of the problem with the American diet is the extremely large sizes they started making, whenever it was they started doubling the sizes, and the prices - it was more profitable to make a double meal, and send half of it home with a customer in one of those Styrofoam containers, and basically, they had 4 meals, with just 2 customers.
Yeah, it can be crazy. I'm from Buffalo. I think we had the first union started at Starbucks. Hopefully unions reduce profits a little in these runaway Ponzi schemes. Tim Hortons is cozy, but I only really drink their hot cocoa. The theme seems to be the most profitable businesses largely sell beverages of varying value?Here, the Tim Horton's coffee chain is one of the most profitable things going on. There is a waiting list to buy into the franchise, (reportedly in the 10/20 year wait). It costs 1 million dollars to buy. Which is paid back in the first year.
I drive by a Tim Horton's taking the grands to school, there is a 15-20 car line-up at the pick-up window...