The penny game is a simple but effective training tool for explaining cost involved.
Give each employee a $1.00 in pennies. The name of the games is to subtract out penny/'s associated with every cost.
After you have paid all the labor, rent, utilities, professional fees, advertising, taxes and etc, what do they have left?
Then you can translate that into your meal prices. Say you have $0.04 left after all expenses. If you sell a $5 cheese burger for example and the restaurant made $0.18.
How many of those burgers do you have to be sold to pay for a broken plate, or cutlery that was thrown in the garbage?
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