Labor alone and food cost alone, greatly outweigh rent for restaurants- so please redo your math.
Food cost inflation contributed to a 110 basis point decline in operating margins, which fell to 25.8% compared to the same quarter last year.
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Consumer food cost inflation, relative to all other goods, has risen to twice its 2005-2007 rate of increase as well due to sharp increases in corn, soybean and wheat prices.
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The cost of food, cost and packaging (as a percentage of sales) rose significantly due to high commodity prices.
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Most significantly, the amount you can include in medical expenses is limited to the amount by which the cost of the special food exceeds the cost of a normal diet.
The steadily declining cost of refrigeration has made almost all elements of food production more cost-effective and energy-efficient.
In practice, Brazil's low-cost food may be shut out by rich countries' trade barriers.
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India lifted most controls over the sugar sector, a step that will likely boost investments in the industry but add to the government's food-subsidy cost.
Leaders at the summit will be discussing how to sustain emergency deliveries of food when the cost of agricultural products -- and the fuel necessary to produce and distribute them -- is skyrocketing.
One, ensure the retail price of junk food reflects the social cost of its over-consumption.
Three is the uncertainty of inflation and commodity prices that determine the cost of food production.
Another is the uncertainty of inflation and commodity prices that determine the cost of food production.
Moreover, these same low income persons are now dealing with the rapidly rising cost of food and energy.
Developed in the 1960s, the poverty threshold represents the basic cost of food for a household, multiplied by three.
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You may deduct the cost of food that you purchased while on business.
They need to realize that the cost of food and energy is immaterial.
In recent days, presidential candidates have paid increasing attention to the cost of food, often citing it on the stump.
Some have even said that the rising cost of food and gasoline also played a role in the Arab Spring.
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There's been a lot of hand-wringing this year about the rising cost of food and how this is squeezing household budgets.
The cost of food, beverage and packaging, accounted for 33.5% of the sales, up 1.3% from the fourth quarter of 2011.
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For example, the cost of food as a proportion of one's income is a mere fraction of what it was decades ago.
Chipotle expects the cost of food to account for 33.5% of the sales this quarter up from 32.6% in the third quarter.
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But some agency workers have found they are being paid much more to cover the cost of food and travel than they actually spend.
And that's for a reportedly bland set of notes in which DiMaggio does little more than complain about signing autographs and the cost of food.
The cross-party committee warned that the increased use of biofuels, part of the European Union's demand for greater stability in energy, would drive up the cost of food.
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Rich countries' biofuel policies pushed up the cost of food.
And we talk about the cost of food and milk.
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Those who have remained behind in northern Mali contend with drought and spikes in the cost of food, aggravated by road closures and a mass exodus into the south.
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