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Enter your food, beverage, labor, and sales numbers to see your prime cost percentage and how it stacks up against healthy benchmarks.
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Healthy prime cost for most full-service concepts runs 55–60%. 60–65% is the watch zone. Above 65% signals margin erosion.

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