Sentences with phrase «food costs from»

• Successfully lowered food costs from 28.9 % to 24.3 % in 2008.

Successfully reduced food costs from 34 % to under 25 % and left a plan in place to further reduce costs during busy season.

Key Higlight: • Dropped food cost from 55 % to 32 % • Saved club finance by $ 15,000 through labor reduction • Increased Snack Shop revenue in May 1997 by $ 3000

Not exact matches

When you remove the retail markup, which ranges from 25 to 50 percent to cover the costs of running a brick - and - mortar store, you put a product that you find at a health food store at or below what you'd pay for the equivalent product at a conventional retail store.

By leveraging social media, CropMobster spreads the word quickly about local food excess from any supplier, which in turn, gets healthy food to those in need, helps local businesses recover costs and prevent food waste.

An undocumented Mexican Donald, sneaking across the border into California or New Mexico, for example, will have the direct costs of a «coyote» (guide) and other direct costs associated with trekking from one country to another (food, clothing, shelter, transportation and identification), and indirect costs associated with removal from one community and insertion into another, and, of course, the costs associated with the possibility of assault, sexual assault or murder.

That estimate comes from the Economic Policy Institute's (EPI) 2015 Family Budget Calculator, which measures the annual cost of necessities for one adult to live a secure, yet modest, lifestyle by estimating the costs of housing, food, transportation, health care, other necessities, and taxes.

But price rises also moderated for other items such as television sets and processed food, a sign the increase in import costs from previous yen falls was dissipating.

Each year the company raises its menu prices to cover increasing food costs, but it generally keeps those price hikes below the rate of inflation for «food away from home» to stay competitive.

Penegor noted that there is a large difference between the cost of food at home and food away from home, and when you combine that with economic uncertainty, people are less likely to eat out.

With those portfolio companies facing the pincer of top - line pressures from a push for private label options combined with the gross - margin pressures from input cost increases, we could easily see increasing distress in food companies in the coming months.

From housing to food and energy, wages go further when the cost of living is low.

On Friday the Labor Department announced that the core consumer price index (CPI)-- which strips out volatile food and energy costs — rose 2.3 % over the past 12 months, up from 1.8 % one year ago.

Putting aside businesses founded abroad ranging from Greek diners to easyJet, that entrepreneurialism has traditionally manifested itself in within Cyprus in ventures with relatively low start - up costs, such as food - based businesses and solopreneur plays.

Restaurants are often laggards when it comes to adopting new technology, but rising labor costs due to higher minimum wage and labor shortages coupled with food inflation has some looking to solutions that can provide some relief from the increased pressure on already tight margins.

Amazon's grocery delivery service costs $ 299 per year, and delivers thousands of grocery products from fruits and vegetables to food from local merchants within a day or less to customers in metropolitan areas within northern and southern Calif., as well as New York City and Seattle.

The company was able to pass much of the costs on to consumers, but doing so simply created yet another incentive for shoppers to look for alternatives, especially at a time many are turning away from the kinds of processed foods Kraft produces.

From hundreds of applicants, the team initially prioritized fellow New Orleans entrepreneurs, including Acrodisiac, a performing acrobatics duo with a «sensual edge»; Kiss Your Grits, a low - cost food truck that offers healthy breakfast options; and Carré Quest, which creates custom made security doors out of used bicycle parts.

Expectations were for prices to fall 0.4 % in December from the prior month, with prices expected to rise 0.1 % when stripping out the more volatile costs of food and energy.

The American system of education makes it possible for a poor boy living in a great city to carry himself through college and even through certain professional schools free, whereas a similar boy living in a rural community will be Stopped alter high school by the costs of transportation to the state - college town and by the cost of board and food away from home.

Yum's net income jumped 48 % to $ 622 million, or $ 1.56 per share, helped by lower taxes, gains from selling restaurants to franchisees, lower food and paper costs and other items.

From there, though, Armstrong has built himself back up, becoming the sort of success he knew he could be when he needed his relatives to help pay for the cost of his food and travel.

This number covers everything from housing and food to childcare and transportation costs.

The facts are not right here, energy is cheap that means the cost of manufacturing and transporting of goods is low, food and consumers staples already more affordable, so what if a few American oil companies going out of business.the cost of producing oil in middle east is less than $ 10 / bl and we were paying more than $ 140 / bl for it, with that huge profit margin the big oil companies and oil producing nations became richer and the rest of us left behind, with the oil price this low the oil giants don't want to reduce the price at pump even a penny, because they are so greedy.worst case scenario is some CEOs bonuses might drop from $ 20 million to $ 15 millions I am sure they will survive.in terms of the stock market it always bounces back, after all it's just a casino like game.

For comparison, a single - income person moving from Cambridge, Massachusetts to Portland, Oregon earning $ 80,000 a year would see a 10 % decrease in cost of living on average, due to cheaper housing and food.

«The Harper government refused to increase the Guaranteed Income Supplement (GIS), which would protect seniors from steep increases in housing, food and energy costs.

Fresh forecasts from the Fed on Wednesday see the core index, which excludes food and energy costs, rising to between 1.3 percent and 1.6 percent this year, still well below the Fed's informal 2 percent target.

In Canada, the cost of food waste was identified as $ 31 billion in 2014, according to a report from Value Chain Management International, up 15 per cent from 2010.

A local consolidation site will offer co-op members convenient and cost - effective pick - up and drop - off for service providers that take food and packaging materials from the site, including food recovery organizations, organics processors, and packaging recyclers.

«You're looking at an economy where a lot of consumers are under some serious pressure from food and fuel costs.»

These risks and uncertainties include food safety and food - borne illness concerns; litigation; unfavorable publicity; federal, state and local regulation of our business including health care reform, labor and insurance costs; technology failures; failure to execute a business continuity plan following a disaster; health concerns including virus outbreaks; the intensely competitive nature of the restaurant industry; factors impacting our ability to drive sales growth; the impact of indebtedness we incurred in the RARE acquisition; our plans to expand our newer brands like Bahama Breeze and Seasons 52; our ability to successfully integrate Eddie V's restaurant operations; a lack of suitable new restaurant locations; higher - than - anticipated costs to open, close or remodel restaurants; increased advertising and marketing costs; a failure to develop and recruit effective leaders; the price and availability of key food products and utilities; shortages or interruptions in the delivery of food and other products; volatility in the market value of derivatives; general macroeconomic factors, including unemployment and interest rates; disruptions in the financial markets; risk of doing business with franchisees and vendors in foreign markets; failure to protect our service marks or other intellectual property; a possible impairment in the carrying value of our goodwill or other intangible assets; a failure of our internal controls over financial reporting or changes in accounting standards; and other factors and uncertainties discussed from time to time in reports filed by Darden with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

That is, it will cost more to drive your car, for farmers to grow food, truckers to transport that food, businesses to buy supplies ranging from paint to roofing shingles.

Cities and villages across the state are raising taxes or implementing new ones for a variety of functions, from attracting a fast - food restaurant to catching up on rising pension costs.

If you file as single, no dependents and make about $ 50,000 a year, a move from nearby Missoula, Montana to the north to Boise, Idaho would result in an 8 % average decrease in cost of living due to less expensive housing and food.

CTI hotel rates are converted from local currency to U.S. dollars using the conversion rate on the date each hotel invoice was paid; food costs, meanwhile, are based on a Dec. 2, conversion rate, so there is no single date to assess for conversion rates.

And because it's often used as a measure of cost - of - living, the CPI helps to determine how much money you'll get in benefits from programs like Social Security, food stamps and veterans» assistance programs.

The carbon tax also increases costs and makes it more expensive for every entity, from grocery stores to food banks, to operate.

Charges add up while the cost of living constantly rises, from higher bank fees and insurance premiums to rising property taxes and commodity and food prices.

«Incumbent businesses in countless industries, from finance to energy to health care to food, are peeling back the layers on this budding technology, seeing the potential to trim costs, share and secure information more efficiently, and unleash new products at unprecedented speed,» declared Fortune in a cover story titled «Blockchain Mania!»

If we were to stop working today and just continue living as is and without moving from our apartment, just the passive income from the dividends and the rental property would cover all of our essential expenses including all food, housing and transportation costs.

Adam had blamed God for his good gift («the woman you gave to be with me, she gave me from the tree...»); he will learn the goodness of God's gift of food by the pain it costs him now that it is no longer sheer gift from heaven to earth, but is earned by hard labor and pain from ground that is cursed.

Some things may be more expensive in very poor countries (Such as imported food from the USA for purchase by expats — in one very poor country I know of, a box of imported breakfast cereal costs the equivalent of approximately three days wages for a local), but many things are less expensive.

This video from GOOD and Whole Foods explores the ways our food costs have gone up — even though, financially, they've gone down.

These rules require that food aid be purchased from preferred growers in the U.S. and shipped from the U.S. on preferred ships instead of finding the best prices and sources of food that will save the most lives at the lowest cost.

To maintain domination some American officials seem willing to bribe the leaders of foreign governments, to seduce their military officers from national loyalties, to make whole nations dependent on our low - cost food, to spy out the deepest political secrets, and to treat other nations like American provinces that we may invade when they become too independent.

the issue is not stocking food, it's not a bad advice, the issue is calling Irene the hurricane, which is wreaking havoc on the east cost, a blessing from God because he thinks, god is sending a hurricane on major costal cities, just to prove that Glen Beck is right about his food advice, note to Glenn, you are not God, you have never talked to god and you should stop lying about your god.

Peter insisted they start working immediately to pay off the money they owed from the journey: the hotel stays, the travel costs, the food... and in order to work, Diana would need to rent a room, go to the beautician and hairdresser, and pay for the «supplies» needed to do the work.

Sourcing locally eliminates the transportation costs of shipping processed foods from warehouses and factories.

The new rules ushered in earlier this year from Brussels may well incur incremental costs for bakers and snack manufacturers, but with one per cent of the UK's population potentially suffering from coeliac disease, the market for foods with the gluten sliced out holds considerable potential.

The passage to full compliance for the new rules from Europe, necessary by 1 January 2012, could necessitate extra costs for manufacturers in particular in terms of re-labelling, that could reach # 1000 per affected product, estimates the UK's Food Standards Agency.