In Reply to: I had breakfast in the Santa Maria Dennys on FRidy… posted by Fuzzy on March 09, 2025 at 09:06:37
Remember that a restaurant is looking to mark up an ingredient's price by 400%.
If a meal costs $1 to make, they want to sell it at $4.
A 13 cents food cost means a 13x4 = 52 cent mark up. It's not quite 75 cents but I assume they want to leave some buffer as egg prices rise so they don't have to change the sign on the door day to day, causing more attention.
I wouldn't call it gauging.