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Plating Profit
by Steven Bonin
Plating Profit is for independent restaurant, café and food business owners who are busy every night and still not sure where the money went. Every two weeks, chef-turned-bookkeeper Steven Bonin (30+ years in kitchens, founder of Chef+) takes one real kitchen problem to the books: pricing, food and labour costs, cash flow, and building offers worth paying for. Plain talk, real numbers, no jargon. Find your number with the free Cash Flow Cure Diagnosis: app.thechefplus.com/diagnosis
Episodes
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Stop running promos. Build an offer.
Every month, small business owners decide they need a promo. Buy one get one free. Twenty percent off. Happy hour all day. They set it and hope. A promo is hope. An offer is a plan. In this episode, I walk through the difference, then show you how to build an offer backward, using a $12 pork loin...
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Beyond the Offer
Season 1, Episode 6. Season 1 set out to cover six letters and stopped at three. This episode finishes the job. F is Find the Leaks: the waste, portions and invoice mistakes that keep food cost a little too high. I is Intentional Labour Deployment: why labour goes bad faster than anything in your...
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The Menu Matrix
In this episode of Plating P.R.O.F.I.T., Steven shows how four “perfectly fine” salads quietly dragged down his prime cost—and how a simple menu matrix turned that same case into a higher‑margin, lower‑waste engine. You’ll see how to classify your dishes as Stars, Workhorses, Puzzles, or Dogs…
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The Freedom Trap
A warm everything sourdough bagel landed on the table in front of me. You could just tell it was made in-house. The crust had that slight crackle. It smelled like something that had been proofed overnight and cared about. Before I took a bite, I asked the owner sitting across from me: “What would...
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The Assumption Tax
A few months ago I sat down with two operators who had been building their lunch program for weeks. Solid concept. Good product. Pricing model they felt confident about. One core item - a specialty bread - costed at $2.00 a portion. The actual cost was $0.78. That gap between what they thought it...
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The 30:30:30 Lie
Somewhere along the way, somebody decided that every food and beverage business should run the same numbers. 30% food cost. 30% labour. 30% operating expenses. 10% profit. It gets taught in culinary schools. It gets repeated by accountants. It gets passed around like gospel at industry events by...
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The Chef+ Manifesto
There was a week in my restaurant where we did the most covers we'd ever done. All day, every day, everything on the menu was selling. Staff were crushing each service. I remember standing at the pass on Friday after the lunch rush thinking - this is it. This is what we built it for. Three weeks...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Plating Profit is for independent restaurant, café and food business owners who are busy every night and still not sure where the money went. Every two weeks, chef-turned-bookkeeper Steven Bonin (30+ years in kitchens, founder of Chef+) takes one real kitchen problem to the books: pricing, food and labour costs, cash flow, and building offers worth paying for. Plain talk, real numbers, no jargon. Find your number with the free Cash Flow Cure Diagnosis: app.thechefplus.com/diagnosis
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Steven Bonin
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Plating Profit is for independent restaurant, café and food business owners who are busy every night and still not sure where the money went. Every two weeks, chef-turned-bookkeeper Steven Bonin (30+ years in kitchens, founder of Chef+) takes one real kitchen problem to the books: pricing, food and...
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