Period Food-Cost Percentage

Actual period food-cost percent and the variance from theoretical, from the inventory count (beginning + purchases - ending) and food sales -- the gap that is waste, theft, over-portioning, and price creep.

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Formula and source

COGS = beginning inventory + purchases - ending inventory; food cost % = COGS / food sales x 100; variance = actual - theoretical (in points and dollars).

Standard restaurant-accounting identity (NRA / restaurant P&L practice, by name).

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