DP Dough

[lynxreign]

So, a DP Dough franchise costs $150,000. That's for the equipment, licensing and training. Then there's the rent for the space, insurance and the cost of materials and power. After all that, I'm thinking that for a manager, assistant manager, 2 employees and 1.5 drivers over a 13 hour day comes to around $800 a day. How much can one actually make on each calzone? What's the profit? How many calzones would have to be sold in a day?

Not expecting answers, just thinking.



... man I love those calzones...

Comments

[emmalyon.livejournal.com]

1) What types of food do they sell besides calzones? There might be a good profit margin on beverages and sides. Fast food places make a killing on fountain drinks, since the syrup and carbonated water are cheap.
2) What kind of advertising budget are you looking at? At least to start you will definitely need to paper the campus(es) with menus/flyers/coupons, plus the yellow pages, and a web presence would be good too--you can order online from many places out here.
3) Man oh man, am I hungry....

[chaoticmoth.livejournal.com]

fountain sodas indeed have the best margin, when I was in college the paper cup cost more then the soda that filled it. I cringe every time I buy a soda at the movies when I think of the profit margin. Pizza and calzones have pretty decent margins as well depending on the toppings/fillings used.

If he is near a campus like Tufts he should try to sign up with their program that allows students to use their ID cards to pay for things. If they aren't paying cash up front they are more likely to buy, and buy often.

[crack-city.livejournal.com]

The movie threater concession stand profit margin is absolutely disgusting. Because it has to be. They don't make any money on admission. All of that goes to pay the bid prices (or whatever they are) to get the films. Compared to cost of inventory, the concession stand is about 80% profit (or was 12-ish years ago, and I know prices have gone up since then).

I'll second the suggestion for "pay with ID cards" thing.

[lynxreign.livejournal.com]

I'd really love to open a second (and older) run theatre and make money off food.

[chaoticmoth.livejournal.com]

I agree that the concessions are where they make their money, that is about the only reason I don't take cans of soda in in my coat pockets. I don't want them to go out of business until I have my own giant home theater. :)