Tag: prime cost

• Expenses & Cost Management

  Prime Cost: The One Number That Tells You If Your Restaurant Is Profitable

  

  In the restaurant industry, there is no shortage of metrics to track — food cost percentage, labor percentage, gross profit, net profit, occupancy ratio, and on down the list. Each of these tells part of the story. But if you could only track one number to understand the fundamental health…

  February 24, 2026