The 5-Way Yield: Fix Your Food Cost and Keep More of Every Dollar (Book + Excel Toolkit)

You raised your prices. But your profit stayed the same.

Most kitchens don't lose money on the menu. They lose it in the kitchen: over-ordering, waste, poor yields and low-margin dishes. The 5-Way Yield gives you a simple, practical system to stop the leaks and keep more of every dollar you earn, written by a working chef.

THE BIG IDEA: 1 INGREDIENT, 5 WAYS

Get more sales and less waste from every ingredient you already buy

WHAT YOU'LL LEARN

✔ Smarter ingredient sourcing to lower what you pay

✔ Cross-utilisation: using one ingredient across multiple dishes

✔ High-margin menu engineering to push your best-earning dishes

✔ How to target a 28-32% food cost

✔ Practical cost control for tight-budget kitchens

BONUS: EXCEL TOOLKIT INCLUDED

Ready-to-use templates to cost your recipes, track yields and see your real margins. No accounting degree needed. Just enter your numbers and see the results.

WHO IT'S FOR

✔ Restaurant owners

✔ Chefs and head chefs

✔ Kitchen managers

✔ Cafe, catering and food truck operators

WHAT YOU GET

• The 5-Way Yield (digital book)

• Excel Toolkit (editable templates)

• Instant download

• Read on phone, tablet or computer

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Sanjeewa Samarakoon is a professional chef and the founder of Chef & Co. Solutions, based in Western Australia. This is Book 1 of the Kitchen Profit Playbook series.

Ready to fix your food cost? Get your copy now and start keeping more of what you earn.