How do restaurants get food so cheaply?
I'm watching restaurant impossible and they always talk about food cost etc...I work in a restaurant too and I can see how much food we get in bulk and how cheap. On the tv show, the guy would talk about like "it costs 1.70$ for this fish and 3.45$ for this steak..." When I go to the supermarket/fish market/grocery and farmers market, steaks are like 12.99$ and fish are like 4/5$ per pound. How do restaurants get food so cheap and any way that the public can get it too?
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its about buying in bulk, but not just that.
a restaurant will have its favorite suppliers for many reasons, some are.
the food supplied is good quality.
the deliveries are on time and regular
the price is right.
the more a restaurant buys the cheaper it will be, the supplier will keep his prices low to ensure the restaurant will not look elsewhere , this is the key
When you go to a store or farmer's market, you are paying retail prices. Restaurants that are buying food in hundreds of units at a time can buy it cheaper. If you had any way to store and use 100 lbs of fish bought all at the same time, you could get a better deal too. Works that way with almost everything. If I walk into Home Depot and buy a package of 10 zip ties, I'll probably pay $5, but if I go to an electrical supply house and buy a package of 250, I'll probably get them for $25. It took them about the same amount of time and trouble to sell me the 250 as it took Home Depot to sell me the 10.
There are a number of McDonalds... One is close to three blocks FROM THE LOUVRE. Why do not you simply go to a Mr. Fast? They were a tremendous rapid food chain in the U.S. At one time but are now restrained to Europe. You ought to have the style buds of a goat if that you may be in Paris and you wish to have to devour AmeriKan quick meals SH*T.
Most probably the merchants they purchase it from are already their suppliers. Of course you can possibly have this bargain but you have to know who to ask. And usually I think they buy in huge bulks. did the show tell where they were purchasing such? sometimes they give the place...
Less processing and/or less transportation costs. There are several forms of economic values that is included in the price of food; transportation and processing of said food are just two examples. The fact that restaurants take part in the "processing" of a food product like fish means there is less reason to add extra costs to the food product, hence, they can buy it for cheaper.
If the public wants to get it for cheaper, they need to do their best to buy the food from the source themselves. This comes in the form of farmers markets, local markets, etc. etc.
They buy in bulk some purchasing a hundred pounds of fish a day or more. My in laws get meat by buying an entire cow and having it butchered it runs about a dollar a pound
special contracts with their parent company like how costco has kirkland meat supplier. KFC has a parent company too, other restaurants have special deals with each other