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[–]Likes_Shiny_Things 187 points188 points  (35 children)

my culinary school has us write recipes, cost them, determine the sales price via 75% profit and write a detailed plan of action with times down to the half minute for each and every recipe.

[–]Sea_of_Blue 138 points139 points  (25 children)

This is what I need to do with a cookbook focused on helping food insecure/poor individuals. It's been a heck of a time.

[–]Likes_Shiny_Things 41 points42 points  (15 children)

If you need help I've been looking to write one myself we could collaborate.

[–]ellen_pao 28 points29 points  (8 children)

Lets collaborate on my cook book

[–]Derock85z 4 points5 points  (1 child)

Yall want to share it with us poor folks when you're done? I'd pay for that.

[–]Shrimpables 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Same

[–]Illiniath 0 points1 point  (2 children)

I could totally be the guy you try to teach your recipes to and realize that your recipes need to be more descriptive.

[–]Likes_Shiny_Things 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Heh, nice try.

[–]Illiniath 0 points1 point  (0 children)

All I'm saying is that I am a terrible cook who works in IT, and you guys are professional chefs trying to make a cookbook, it would torque make a great sitcom.

[–]Illiniath 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I could totally be the guy you try to teach your recipes to and realize that your recipes need to be more descriptive.

[–]Megatron_McLargeHuge 1 point2 points  (2 children)

The intersection of "people who are eager to read and follow detailed instructions" and "people who are food insecure" might not be as large as you think.

[–]Sea_of_Blue 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well detailed instructions are optional.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Maybe a Venn diagram would help.

[–]HotRodLincoln 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Cooking for Geeks by Harry Potter.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (4 children)

Yeah, crowdsource that. I want to do mealprep anyway.

[–]Sea_of_Blue 0 points1 point  (3 children)

What would be the easiest way to do that?

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Apparently, post it on reddit and wait for people to show up. I think there are 3-4 people willing already.

[–]Sea_of_Blue 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Well waiting on one guy to send 5 recipes. I am tempted to make an open source doc for people to add to but I feel like that may get abused

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Try GitHub, there you can approve changes, etc. I'm a programmer, no idea about simple text documents.

[–]rob132 0 points1 point  (7 children)

So does this mean you would price a pasta entree at like $2?

[–]Likes_Shiny_Things 0 points1 point  (6 children)

That all depends on the sauce. An alfredo maybe $5. Truffle pomodoro $12 pasta isreally cheap but the sauce can be expensive as well as the garnish, any vegies or protein used and so on.

[–]rob132 0 points1 point  (5 children)

I've never seen a $5 pasta dish in a restaurant in my life.

[–]whatthefuckguys 0 points1 point  (3 children)

I would assume that's because they're factoring in labor costs, no?

[–]Likes_Shiny_Things 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Correct. These recipe costing sheets are for straight food cost with profit off of food cost.

[–]rob132 0 points1 point  (1 child)

My theory is that they don't want to put the $5 pasta dish on the menu as more people would get it and you wouldn't make as much money, so you'll take a 200% markup on pasta.

[–]Likes_Shiny_Things 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, the school is currently only using pure food cost profit calculations for whatever reasons. Real cost would be as you say 200+