Food Costs Formula: How to Calculate Restaurant Food Cost Percentage

In this blog post, I put a You Tube video on food costs. If you want to open an eatery, this short video will be very informative. The instructor is a chef and entrepreneur. He states that many people working in the food service industry in key positions do not know the basics on what a plate of food costs. That is one of the most basic things anyone in business must know. And that is how much did it cost you to purchase your items to be sold. To make a profit, you aren't going to purchase expensive ground beef like $50.00 per pound, and expect to make any money by selling a 1/2 pounder with cheese for 12.99. If you are you are an idiot big time. Even drug dealers are more aware on their costs. Hey if you go into business, you need some street smarts. I'd take the street smart guy anyday, and by-pass the university grad.

The Restaurant Boss

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Should I Start A Food Truck?

Money guru Dave Ramsey in this video listens to one of his callers who is a woman that want to open her own food truck in Texas. If you are thinking of opening up any business this short video is interesting. Not like Shart Tank, however the caller explains the cost to Dave, as he interupts her at times to explain that she does not need certain components at her stage of the game, as she is a newby to the food truck industry. She explains that she wants to hire employees, and Dave gives her a thumbs down on that, as he explains to her that she will be doing most of the work. Dave keeps it real. And that's just the way business are born. Starting with very little and growing it day by day, on sale at a time.

Dave Ramsey

The Dave Ramsey Show

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Induction Cooktops That Are Heating up the Food Industry

In this video, you will see for just a few minutes, what induction cooking is doing for the professional kitchens and chefs. Vollrath is a company based in Sheboygan, Wisconsin. They manufacture almost everything a restaurant will need in large numbers. The Vollrath name can be found in almost every kitchen around the globe. Take a peek inside of your favorite local diner, I bet you anything you will see the Vollrath name on a pot or pan, or maybe the salad bar. Go to their website and check it out. 

Induction cooking has many good points. It is based on magnetics. A cooking vessel must contain steel. The induction cook top does not get physically hot, hence you can put your hand on the surface even with the power on and not feel the heat. The friction by magnetics causes the steel vessel to get heated. Chefs are finding out that induction cooking has many benefits. 

Benefits include precise cooking temperatures. Unlike cooking with a gas produced flame that can be unreliable, the induction production of heat can be dialed in correctly almost 100 % of the time. Old school cooking methods using flame as a source for heat would have a chef making a Hollandaise sauce using a double boiler. However with induction cooking, a chef can dial in to a lower temperature and hold it at that for a long time. Hence an egg sauce will not burn, nor melting chocolates. Watch this video of what Vollrath has to offer if you want to open an eatery. Or if you just want some induction equipment for your home. Vollrath manufactures some very handsome, fine quality home cookware as well.

Vollrath Induction Cooking

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GRAPHIC: GIANT LIVE Maine Lobster HUGE Sushi Roll | Guga Foods Collab!

Hiroyuki Terada is one of my favorite You Tube chefs. He specializes in sushi making. Afterall he is a master sushi chef from Japan. In this video he breaks apart a huge ass live Maine lobster. He steams the huge claws, body and tail and proceeds to make a huge ass lobster sushi roll. His Deba looked small compared to the huge 10 + pound lobster. 

Now here's a few tips on steaming times for a whole lobster.

3/4-1 pound in boiling water for about 8 minutes

1- 1 1/4 pound about 10 minutes

1 1/2 - 2 pounds 11 minutes.

Obviously this lobster that Hiroyuki is steaming was too huge for any pot he had in his studio. So he broke down each piece and using a digital scale weighed each piece he steamed. He actually went 9 minutes per pound. Adding 2 minutes per additional pound. This is key. Enjoy the video, I did.

Chef Hiroyuki Terada

Giant Maine Lobster HUGE Sushi Roll!

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Sausage Gravy recipe by the BBQ Pit Boys

In this video the BBQ Pit Boys are going to make a Sausage Gravy. It's great anytime to eat. Breakfast, lunch, snack, dinner. After a night of boozing, whenever. This is comfort food deluxe. I love this stuff with flaky biscuits with lots of butter. Not good for my hypertension or gout, but you know what I mean. This is good stuff man. Love this kind of food! OK watch the video, and enjoy.

BBQ Pit Boys

Sausage Gravy Recipe

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Fool - Proof Prime Rib Youtube

In this video, we are going to watch a home cook make his prime rib with the bone on. He's got a simple method, just watch. I've never made prime rib this way, because he puts a 6 pounder in the oven at 500 deg. F, for 30 minutes. Then offs the heat, and lets the prime rib sit in the closed oven for 2 hours, and it comes out perfect, medium rare. I usually go slow and low, like maybe 4 hours at 300 degrees, and just watch the inserted thermometer until it reaches around 130 deg F. Whatever your style, or you are just interested watch this video it's a cool take on home cooking.

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Ezekiel 4:9 Organic Bread Ultimate Mock Chicken Sandwich

In this blog I'll introduce you to 
EZEKIEL 4:9 ORGANIC ALL GRAIN BREAD. Flourless, low glycemic bread perfect for diabetics as well as people with hypertension. Of course it all depends if you are going to eat this with healthy ingredients. I mean, you wouldn't want to make greasy grilled cheese sandwiches with this bread. But nobody is stopping you at all.

Ezekiel 4:9 products are crafted in the likeness of the Holy Scripture verse Ezekiel 4:9 to ensure unrivaled honest nutrition and pure, delicious flavors.

"Take also unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentils and millet, and spelt and put them in one vessel…" Ezekiel 4:9

It’s this special, unique combination of 6 grains and legumes that harvests benefits beyond what we normally expect from our breads, pastas, cereals, and other foods.

• Source of Complete Protein - Rated 84.3% as efficient as the highest source of protein (comparable to that of milk or eggs)
• Contains 18 Amino Acids - Including all 9 essential amino acids
• Increased Digestibility - Sprouting breaks down
  starches in grains into simple sugars so your body can digest them easily.
• Increased Absorption of Minerals – Sprouting breaks down enzyme inhibitors, so your body can more easily absorb calcium, magnesium, iron, copper and zinc.
• Increased Vitamin C - Sprouting produces vitamin C.
• Increased Vitamin B - Sprouting increases the vitamin B2, B5 & B6.
• Great source of Fiber - Combining sprouted grains and legumes gives a good amount of natural fiber in each serving.

And as is true with all our Food for Life Sprouted Grain Products, we only use the very best ingredients and baking methods to ensure you truly get the very most out of your food.

• We use only freshly sprouted certified organic grains.
• Our products are kosher.
• We use absolutely no flour. Studies have shown that grinding grains into flour increases the surface area upon which enzymes in the body can work to more quickly convert starch into glucose.
• We don’t use any genetically modified organisms (GMO’s)
• We don’t use refined sugars. When sugar is refined and processed there are many harmful ingredients that are added to the sugar as a result. Instead, we use malted barley, a natural sweetener produced from sprouted barley, which is basically a carbohydrate comprised mostly of complex carbohydrates rather than the "sugar" carbohydrates.
• We don’t use anything artificial – no preservatives or shortenings.
• We use a unique slow-bake process to preserve the natural fiber and bran benefits of grains.

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 Ezekiel 4:9 Sprouted Grain Bread

Here's what you can do for a healthy sandwich. I'll call this the 

Ultimate Mock Chicken Sandwich.

INGREDIENTS

1-14 oz. block of firm tofu (organic). Drained of water. Sliced into 6 pieces, so you'll have 6 steaks.

1/2 cup of organic tamari soy sauce

1 tsp. honey

1 tbsp. apple cider vinegar (organic)

2 cups of mock chicken powder

2 cups of nutritiona yeast

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1 cup of Veganaise (organic vegan mayonnaise)

1 cup of organic stone grain mustard

6 pieces of organic lettuce leaves

6 slices of organic tomato

6 slices of organic red onion

6 slices of all-natural organic Swiss cheese

12 slices of Ezekiel 4:9 bread (6 sandwiches)

Directions

In a small mixing bowl, add in the tamari soy sauce, apple cider vinegar, and honey. In another medium bowl, add in the mock chicken powder and nutritional yeast, mix well.

Soak each slice of tofu into the tamari mixture one at a time. Then dredge in the powered mixture. Set aside all 6 slices.

Take 6 slices of bread and spread the Vegenaise and mustard mixture on each slice. Then place a slice of seasoned tofu on each slice. Then add each of the vegetables. Top with cheese, and last piece of bread. 

Boom!

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