The Importance Of Food Cost Control In The Food Service Industry

Register to read the introduction… To facilitate discussion at this point, responsibility for food purchasing is arbitrarily assigned to steward. This does not mean that this responsibility should always be given to steward. The determination of who should be assigned responsibility for food purchasing must be based on the situations and conditions existing in the specific foodservice operation. The important point here is that, for control purpose, the authority to purchase foods and the responsibility for doing so should be assigned to one individual. That individual can then be held accountable for the system of control procedures established by food controller.

2.0 Importance of food cost control

In order to ensure a food services operation’s sale exceed its expenses, food cost control contributed a major factor. Some restaurateur in food service businesses didn’t take this as important things and simply assume that their food cost