Prep Examples

 

Example of Sauce Prep

You have a secret Burger Sauce that you prepare for the restaurant. The Burger Sauce contains 34 ounces of Mayonnaise, 4 ounces of Ketchup, 16 ounces of Mustard and 1.5 ounces of Garlic. When these ingredients are mixed together, the total amount of sauce is 54 ounces. This is the Physical Yield.
 Make sure that you weigh the finished product to get the correct Physical Yield. You want to ensure the Physical Yield is entered by the Unit of Measure that you use the Prep in recipes.
E.G. .75 of an ounce of Burger Sauce is used in the hamburger recipe (product). Because the sauce is used in recipes by the ounce, enter the total Physical Yield in ounces.

Burger Sauce entry would be:

 

Optimum Control calculates that the Total Cost for the Burger Sauce is $4.0496 or $4.05. The Actual Cost per ounce (Unit) for this prep is $0.0750 or roughly 8 cents.

 Remember to enter your Prep just as you would make it in your kitchen. You want to measure or weigh the final Prep to get the total yield.

 

Example of Chili Prep

You prepare homemade chili in your restaurant. After cooking the chili, the finished weight is 12.5 pounds.

You sell chili by the bowl and also use it on burgers. The chili bowl contains 6 ounces of chili and chili burgers contain 1 ounce of chili. Because you use the chili by ounces in recipes, you would enter the Physical Yield in ounces. You will need to convert the pounds into ounces. There are 16 ounces in a pound, you would calculate: 12.5 x 16 = 200 ounces. Enter in the Physical Yield as 200 ounces.

Chili Prep entry would be:

 

The Total Cost of Chili Prep is $13.83. The Actual Cost per ounce is 69 cents.

 

Example of Prepping a Strip Loin into Steaks

You prefer to cut your own steaks instead of purchasing individually wrapped steaks. You purchase an 8-pound Strip Loin. After trimming and cutting, this yields 15 steaks. The price per pound is $5.99.

 In the Items window, Strip Loin is setup, How is it used in recipes? by the pound. You indicate that from the 8-pound Strip Loin, the Physical Yield is 15 each. 

Strip Loin Steak Prep would be:

The Actual Cost per steak (each) is $3.19. You can now use the prepped steak in any recipes (Products).

 

Example of Prepping Tomato Slices

After slicing your tomatoes, you get 9 slices per tomato. In recipes, you use Tomatoes by the slice. You can Prep the tomato to be used in recipes (products) by the slice. Tomatoes have already been setup in Items to be used in recipes by the each, at a cost of $0.2291.

Tomato - Sliced entry would be:

The entry of Tomatoes is 1.00 each. The Unit of Measure (UOM) will appear by how Tomatoes are setup to by used in recipes in the Item window. The Actual Cost per slice is 2.5 cents.

 

Example of Cooked Black Bean Prep

Because items such as dried beans or pasta increase in volume when they are cooked, we suggest that you Prep these items to achieve the correct cooked weight. Once prepped, you can use them in other prep recipes or menu products. 

You purchase black beans dried and cook them yourself. You start with 40 ounces of beans and when cooked, the final weight is 120 ounces. The yield increased 300%.

Black Bean Prep entry would be:

 

The Actual Cost per cooked ounce (unit) is 4.3 cents.