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As food service professionals, we have a
responsibility to create amazing programs that meet
our customers' needs and desires while allowing our
programs to flourish for years to come. As customer
advocates, we need to look at how we build and price
our meal plans to meet our customers' needs while
also providing our programs with financial security.
This is a subject that some may find uncomfortable,
but let's start the conversation and know that we can
find balance.
COST PER MEAL
We first need to establish how much it costs to provide a
meal in residential dining, and we can do that by looking
at how many residential meals we serve in a semester or
a school year, and then look at our total operating costs
for our residential operation. This should assess our total
labor load, including benefits and all wages, as well as
our total food purchases and any additional costs. By
dividing, we can determine the total cost, on average, to
provide one meal in our residential operation. This figure
is important, as how we price our plans should be directly
linked to this cost. It is important to use the actual
number of meals served, not the total possible meals, as
our goal is to know if 100 percent of the meals are used,
then what would be our projected costs.
Once we have this information, it is important that we
look at the operation and evaluate if any of this data
could be skewed. Examples could be if we are currently
short-staffed, then our labor figure may be incorrect,
and some estimates may need to be given for costs.
Or perhaps we have a large amount of food waste at a
particular location. Typically, residential facilities should
have a very low level of food waste, but if we see more
than 5 percent of our food production being listed as
waste, we should look at how we are prepping, staging, or
serving in our operations.
TOTAL
OPERATING
COSTS
NUMBER OF
RESIDENTIAL
MEALS SERVED
PER SEMESTER
= Cost per meal
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