Plugging Away

I have been plugging in numbers today as I work on a menu profit program for the Brick House.  We are updating pricing and building new menu items and I need to have good numbers in the computer for price updates and the like.  This will give us an idea of food costs and then the appropriate price to keep food costs at the right average.  One of the problems we are going to run into is that we have kept our prices low for too long.  Our costs have gone up considerably and we need to now alter our pricing so that we are more profitable and can afford to stay in business.  Food costs are very difficult to manage especially when there is waste in the kitchen.  I like this program however and feel like we are making some progress.  I am nearly finished.  Need to now run through and double check everything.  From the time I started this there have been a number of discontinued items and I need to get them updated with current items so that pricing can be accurate.  So much fun.  We will get there.