High Profit MarkUp Items
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Cooking with Gas! - The Gas Grille
If you want to make a high profit mark-up on food you’ll need a gas or electronic grille. The grille is turned on low all the time your kitchen is open and turned up higher, as soon as you know that a grille item has been ordered.
“La Plancha” is the Spanish name for the grille, which is one of your main profit generating pieces of kitchen hardware. Most everything you cook on your plancha will yield a high mark-up. Here are just a few items that will make you a good return:
- Toasted sandwich
- Bacon sandwich
- Club sandwich
- English breakfast
- Toasted croissant
- French omelet
- Crepe
- Gammon steak
- Grilled fish
The grille is always ready for use as it’s kept almost permanently on and you must scrape it quickly after each item is cooked to leave it clean for the next order.
To cook something on the plancha, just turn it up, sprinkle a little cooking oil on it and place your bread, croissant, omelet mix etc on the hot steel plate.
Spent oil from the plancha collects in an easily removable tray. This oil is tipped into a recycling container once a day and the container is slotted back onto the plancha.
You can make a lot of money from this piece of equipment alone. I am not going to bog you down with arithmetic, but here is just one example of how this grille brings in the profit:
Mixed Toastie
Ingredients: 2 slices of bread, 1 slice of cheese, 1 slice of ham and a little butter.
Cost: 26p
Retail Price: 2 GBP (A club sandwich with chicken and salad sells in West-Marbella for 2.85 GBP)
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on March 8, 2008 at 9:40 am Lee wrote:
Hi,
Fantastic site, really useful and interesting.
My partner and I are currently in the process of buying a cafe/bar in the Murcia area. It is a going concern but in need of some modernisation. We need to purchase some kitchen equipment and new chairs/tables etc, but can’t seem to find any vararity or styles we like. We are thinking of hiring a truck and buying some of the units in the UK where there is more choice and (seemingly) better deals to be had.
Could you advise whether you know of anywhere on the Costas where we can obtain industrial kitchen equipment and tables/chairs etc for a competitve price? Even driving to Benidorm or the other way to Malaga would be preferable to buying in the UK, but if we can get better deals in the UK I guess it makes sence?!!
Regards
Lee
on June 19, 2008 at 7:57 pm Janice wrote:
Hi
Yes, really good site. I’m opening a bar in the Malaga area and looking for a name for it. Something better than Jan’s Bar! It’s a small bar with snacks and cocktails etc. in the evening.
Thanks
Janice
on July 13, 2008 at 11:00 am Graham wrote:
Hi Lee,
My experience of the Costa del Sol has been that there is very little variety available when one is looking for tables and chairs etc.
Some restaurants move up a notch from what is commonly available and the result is usually stunningly good, but you have to pay through the nose for quality stuff here. You could look in the big cash and carry stores in places like Sevilla, but I agree with you at the end of the day; the UK is a great place to find quality stuff at a good price.
Good luck
Graham
on July 25, 2008 at 3:04 pm simon dixon wrote:
graham
I found all your advice excellent, I am looking to open a bar in malta and all of the info has been much appreciated