Menu Development, Planning, Design, and Cost Analysis Report

This report examines the menu development process for Marcus Restaurant, focusing on the factors that influence menu planning, design, and pricing. It considers various aspects, including cost and revenue impact, business policies, environmental considerations, economic climate, seasonality, and competitor analysis. The report presents menu item data, including total sales, menu prices, portion costs, and food cost percentages, to illustrate how these factors affect profitability. The analysis includes a breakdown of both food and beverage items, evaluating their contribution margins. The conclusion emphasizes the importance of strategic menu design to attract customers and optimize revenue, highlighting the impact of various expenses on overall profitability. The report references relevant literature on procedural generation, sustainable customer experience design, and customer knowledge absorption in service design.

Menu development,
planning and design

Table of Content
Introduction
Assess factors should be consider in pricing
and costing menu
Produce price and cost to meet the
requirement of customer
Conclusion
References

INTRODUCTION
Menu is a list where all food and beverages items are
organized in proper manner with appropriate prices. In
this presentation Marcus Restaurant is been
considered. This restaurant is located in United
Kingdom and produce `a la carte menu. While
designing and planning menu they should consider
various factors that impact the decision when pricing
and costing of food items in menu.

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Menu planning is the planning to design
menu or deciding what meals should be
included in menu and what are the
service provided by restaurant to
customers. They should set price and cost
of meal in such a way which is
appropriate according to the food and
beverages produced by them. Some of the
factors that need to be consider while
planning the cost and price of menu
which are as follows:

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• Cost and revenue impact: This is the main factor which is affected by cost
because there are many cost involved in restaurant which directly or indirectly
affect the revenue of restaurant. In context to Marcus Restaurant, there are various
cost involved such as staffing cost, labor cost and energy cost which include
electricity, water and others. When earning revenue these types of cost should be
reduced and after then the remaining amounts is said to be profit of restaurant.

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• Business policies and environmental: The important factors
should be in consideration for Marcus Restaurant as they have
to develop some strategies that help them to reduce the impact
of environment which lead to achieving objectives successfully
so that environmental performance can be improved. They
have their own policies which help restaurant to minimize
pollution and waste such as switching off lights or do not waste
water etc.

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• Economic climate: This also affect the economic
climate as the price changes according to current and
future trend, need and demand of customers so Marcus
Restaurant have to change their design and food or
beverages items from menu. Moreover, this include lot
of cost to redesign or set price appropriately.

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Seasonality restrictions: The
seasonality is the most changing
factor in hospitality industry of
food and beverages. With the
reference to Marcus Restaurant,
they provide seasonal food items to
customers which help them to
attract customer as it taste fresher,
low cost and more nutrients.

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Competitors: This affect the prices as Marcus
Restaurant have to analyze what are the current
trend and introduce new variety of items or
new flavor in beverages which help them to
remain in competition and gain competitive
advantage in food and beverage industry.

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A B C D E F G H I J
Menu Item Total Sold Menu Price Portion Cost Food Cost % Portion C.M.[1] Total Food Sales Total Food Cost Total C.M. C.M.%
Fresh Tagliatelle 12 10.6 2.54 24% 8.06 127.20 30.53 96.67 17%
Burger 10 11.3 3.96 35% 7.35 113.00 39.55 73.45 13%
Veg Cheese Sandwich 8 9.5 2.76 29% 6.75 76.00 22.04 53.96 10%
Pasta 7 12.75 4.21 33% 8.54 89.25 29.45 59.80 11%
Warm walnut cheese
salad 6 16.2 5.51 34% 10.69 97.20 33.05 64.15 11%
Crisps 8 17.16 5.15 30% 12.01 137.28 41.18 96.10 17%
Avovado mozzarella 9 13.3 5.32 40% 7.98 119.70 47.88 71.82 13%
Tricolor pasta salad 5 15.85 6.97 44% 8.88 79.25 34.87 44.38 8%
Totals 65 838.88 278.5525 560.3275 100%

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Item Total Sold Menu Price Portion Cost Food Cost % Portion C.M. Total Food
Sales Total Food Cost Total C.M. C.M.%
Cappuccino 30 7.5 2.55 34% 4.95 225.00 76.50 148.50 7%
Herbal Tea 210 8.2 2.71 33% 5.49 1722.00 568.26 1153.74 56%
Flavoured coffee 69 5.5 1.65 30% 3.85 379.50 113.85 265.65 13%
Kids fruit shoot 18 6.25 1.69 27% 4.56 112.50 30.38 82.13 4%
Ice cold milk 50 5.25 1.47 28% 3.78 262.50 73.50 189.00 9%
Cranberry Juice 26 6.6 1.91 29% 4.69 171.60 49.76 121.84 6%
Mineral water 22 5.2 1.20 23% 4.00 114.40 26.31 88.09 4%
425.00 ACM = 31.33 2987.50 938.56 2048.94 100.00%

CONCLUSION
From the presentation, it is analyzed that every
restaurant should consider factors that affect the
decision of hotels, restaurants and cafe when they
are designing new menu and introduce new variety
of food and beverages so that they attract customer
to visit and consume food and recommend to others.
The revenue is affected as this include various
expenses and cost such as electricity, labor and
water.