You also need to factor in employee pay to make and deliver them.
As well as utility cost to run the stove, lighting, pos systems, etc. plus rent/mortgage/taxes on the building, upkeep of fixtures like tables, menus, and cutlery, insurance costs, inspection costs, non sales staff (think like general managers, janitorial staff, plus HR and IT if they have it), any planned building upgrades down the line (whether to the actual building eg renovating dining areas or upgrading kitchen appliances), theft/shrinkage, damage from customers and staff being assholes, from equipment breaking down, from natural disasters, etc
Probably a lot more too. There’s a whole bunch to factor in
That's too much math and I'm le tired
That’s for one container of wholesale batter, IHOP is not paying that price because they’re buying a lot more.
I don’t know if this is helpful, but when I worked at Olive Garden 10 years ago, a spaghetti and meat sauce cost them $1.09. That includes everything, labor, etc.
If the price per pound decreases if they get a special bulk rate, it means you need to eat even more pancakes until they lose money lol.
Yeah exactly! Though the overhead of employment might bring that number back up to about your original estimate.
If that really does include everything, why do I always hear about how thin margins are in the food service industry? That doesn't sound like a thin margin to me.
Margins are thin on things that aren’t pasta. OG also had a great thing going with the wine focus. You could get a glass of estancia Pinot noir back then for like $7. The bottle was $8 retail.
Anyone who walked into an IHOP and ate 3.26 pounds of pancakes would be an absolute legend at that IHOP. I can barely eat 4 or 5 before I'm done.
Skill issue
The world record for pancake eating is 7 pounds in 8 minutes, set in 2016 by Matt "Megatoad" Stonie.
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Wolfram Alpha is crying in binary for being abused like this.
Why do you hate IHOP? I'm not a fan mind you, I've heard people hate McDonald's and all but this is a first for IHOP for me.
Because unlimited pancakes breaks the laws of physics and decency. Even if you had a machine whose primary goal is to make pancakes and use whatever mass is available to it, eventually there will be no more matter in the universe to make pancakes and it would be finite, not truly unlimited. This is blatant false advertising, hence I've got it out for IHOP.
They just use a pancake particle collider to generate new pancake matter.
When milk, eggs, flour, and baking powder collide at a significant fraction of the speed of light, what happens?
In all probability?
Fire.
What do you think of the term bottomless instead? Lol
Maybe all you can eat?
Gay pancakes. These are both fantastic and delicious.
That took a turn I didn't expect 🤣.
My youngest would be 80% pancake by now if that was a thing.
I don’t know why someone would hate it, but it’s a really trash chain that is easily outdone by the dingiest of local diners.
For sure! 12 year old me loved IHOP. I took my kids 15+ years ago and they hated it as much as I did.
More like when you hate your pancreas. Damn.
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If there is, theydidthemonstermath is sure to follow
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