/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.12802685]

Justify this ripoff shit
>LPT: you cansimply can not.

>inb4 overhead
we get it takes electricity, gas etc to serve and its factored in. I'm telling you the profit margin on WANGZ is out of control.
>inb4 $5 is too cheap for that
yeah thats the price the store buys it for, the same the restaurant pays for it too.
>inb4 2 WANGZ on a bird
a pound of wings is a complete rip off compared to a one pound breast filet yet tend to cost more for bones, gristle and sauce

tldr: fuck wangz because theyre a rip off

[Anonymous No.12802690]

>>12802685
>he thinks wings are 5$ a package still
That package to tyson wings would be like 16$

[Anonymous No.12802691]

t. economically retarded

[Anonymous No.12802694]

>>12802690
store buys that for $5. 300% mark up is $15 which is about the normal price
>>12802691
no, take a hike poultry industry shill

[Anonymous No.12802704]

>>12802694
>store buys that for $5.
So why are you implying in the OP that it costs the consumer $5

[Anonymous No.12802709]

>>12802704
who cares autismo, its what it costs
both are what they cost

[Anonymous No.12802733]

>>12802694
Everybody involved in that chain of supply from farm to your stupid fucking face needs to pay bills and put food on the table you absolute fucking retard.

[Anonymous No.12802769]

>>12802685
Its the same reason why apps can charge 6$ delivery for a 5$ plate of food? Lazyness and basic time value. Look if you have a decent income and can afford it, its not the worst thing especially if they got a unique flavor. But if your relying on mommies allowance and can only afford the 10$ walk in special. Maybe its better to question other facets of life then the price structuring of chicken wings.

[Anonymous No.12802825]

>>12802690
Wut? I can get a 2lb tray for $5. That's about 10-12 whole wings or so. That tray has about 30 wings, so yeah: pans out. Just hard to believe that's. A 6lb tray. Looks so small all lumped together like that in a single layer.

[Anonymous No.12802848]

>>12802709
do you have a traumatic brain injury or are you a regular buyer of wholesale chicken wings

[Anonymous No.12802854]

Eating meat in general can't be justified in any case but better off hunting your pterodactyl and cooking it than wasting ten times the amount to have someone else cook it.

[Anonymous No.12802865]

Fried Quail legs are superior to chicken wings in every way

[Anonymous No.12802878]

>>12802685
>Imagine buying McDonalds stock

[Anonymous No.12802896]

>>12802825
where do you live?

[Anonymous No.12802909]

Tendies are superior

[Anonymous No.12802935]

>>12802694
dude, the grocery store industry has margins of less than 3%.

it's called added value. you didn't cook the shit. you didn't make the sauce. you didn't buy the ingredients for and make the sauce. you didn't clean the tables and mop the floor or get your own water and do the dishes after. you don't have to take care of the rent and utilities.

[Anonymous No.12802957]

>>12802685
>25% cost of food into a dish
>$12.50
>meme challenge dish that people get for free if they eat them with shirt
>britbong land so chicken probably isn't subsidized and as cheap even without the subsidies
>restaurant in the middle of one of the most expensive areas in the world(london)
>tyson wings are $10 now even in flyover fuckville where i live
you have no economic sense like >>12802691 said

[Anonymous No.12803057]

>>12802690
$1.98/lb for a 10lb bag of wings at Sam's. Clearly seasoning the chicken, heating some oil and frying it, making a hot wing sauce of butter, garlic, sugar and hot sauce in no way justifies that kind of markup. It's no wonder CEO's profit has risen 1000% since 1978 while those who actually produce the goods and services have seen a 12% rise. As much as you can, stop superfluous spending and perform as much production of the goods you consume on your own as you possibly can. Fuck this system.

[Anonymous No.12803083]

>>12803057
if its so easy to make money you should sell chicken wings and become a millionaire in a few weeks

[Anonymous No.12803086]

>60% markup because some deli shrew slid a hunk of meat into a machine tray and pushed a button
Why we need fascism.

[Anonymous No.12803091]

>>12803083
Wings actually aren't a bad idea for a food truck but the fryers probably have nasty overhead.

[Anonymous No.12803098]

>>12803086
Pay for labor or automate it.

This is why we need fully automated luxury space communism.

[Anonymous No.12803100]

>>12802685
>imagine being too poor to enjoy chicken wings
literally lmoaing at your life anon

[Anonymous No.12803119]

>>12802685
same reason skirt steak is now just as expensive, if not more, than a cut of Tbone. what was once considered garbage was served to the lower class, those people grew up and got money and bought a lot of it, they raised the price accordingly. see also turkey legs after they became popular at fair grounds

nobody who likes dark meat will ever make enough money to affect the industry, so you'll never see a hike in chicken prices

[Anonymous No.12803125]

>>12803057
make your own wings genius, it isn't difficult.

[Anonymous No.12803128]

>>12802769
That first sentence shouldn't have a question mark.

[Anonymous No.12803129]

>>12803119
thighs are more expensive than breasts where I live now

[Anonymous No.12803149]

>>12803129
you probably should move out of baltimore

[Anonymous No.12803156]

>>12803125
Yeah? That was my argument. Thx for joining us.

[Anonymous No.12803163]

>not buying chicken breasts and making boneless wangz

wtf

[Anonymous No.12803172]

>>12803091
>but the fryers probably have nasty overhead
doubt it, chips are deep fried and their cheap as chips everywhere

[Anonymous No.12803173]

>>12802957
most restaurants i worked had have had a 30% food cost.

1/3 food cost
1/3 labor
1/3 profit/overhead.

I know stuff like wings it probably costs a lot less but I dont have a deep fryer at home so I dont mind pay $1 a wing.

[Anonymous No.12803245]

>>12802896
In the refrigerator, behind the cole slaw, next to the ketchup and to the left of the mayonnaise.

[Anonymous No.12803275]

>>12803098
The labor used to be a guy with knives cutting meat thousands of times a day. Machine automates this process with greater precision and smaller risk of injury. A deli worker does 10 minutes worth of work on a product which hasn't seen its dollar value drop proportionately. I'm aware that each link in a supply chain needs its own slice of profits, but retail takes such a thick cut that it's ridiculous. There's no reason, for instance, why a whole turkey should cost less than a package of turkey breast.

[Anonymous No.12803300]

Wish I knew how to make KFC hotwings at home.

[Anonymous No.12803320]

>>12803275
whole turkey and turkey breast are 2 different things. turkey breast is actually pressed meat, it's not just taken straight off the turkey. there's also the difference in paying for the bones vs straight up meat.
When you price out chicken, it's $0.60/lb for a whole 5lb bird ($3), the breast are $2/lb, and assuming that is 1/2 the bird's meat, one would assuming ~$6 for the equivalent. the truth is, that 5lb bird probably has 3/4 lbs of breast meat, 3/4 lbs of thigh, leg, and wing, and the rest is packing fluid and bones (3.5lbs). if you aren't taking the bones and making stock, that's your fault for buying a whole bird and only using half.

>>12803173
you can get a countertop model for under $50, if you really like wings all that much, invest

[Anonymous No.12803324]

>>12803173
>>12802957
>>12802685
Restaurant food costs aren't ubiquitous for each item of the same menu, though.
It should be 25-35% overall, but they're making more on the wings, fries, and soda, and less on the steak or fish. More on alcohol. Less on vegetables.

How much would you really pay for a side of, say, cauliflower au gratin? $4, $5? When accounting for the veg, heavy cream, cheese, and general labor that goes into it, they'd be selling it at $9 under a ubiquitous pricing scheme. That's just not how it works, my dudes.

[Anonymous No.12803463]

>>12803324
Well yeah, I meant 30% on average.

Obviously when you pay 5$ for a side of fries those actual potatoes cost way less than $1.66, they probably cost closer to like 60 cents for that portion. It goes the other way too. If a place can only get ribeyes at 10$ a steak, obviously no one is going to pay $30 for that. So they have to put it on the menu at, say, a 40% food cost and balance out that with the other lower foodcost stuff on the menu.

Ive sat next to chefs as they cost the menu out in a big excel sheet. Yeah they stay between 25% and 35% but some stuff like starches and sodas have a huge profit margin and stuff like steak and fish have a smaller margin.

I bartend and most places have a 20% cost on alcohol and 15% on beer. Currently the place I work at has a brewery on property and whenever we sell a pint of Ruby Ale for $6.25, it actually only costs us 15 cents to make.

[Anonymous No.12803504]

>>12802685
Cooking them is tedious and doesn't leave you with a lot of meal, that's what they charge you for.

[Anonymous No.12803617]

>>12802685
>Thing too expensive!!! Why is this allowed?!?! We need socialism!!!!
No. No we don't.

Make your own chicken wings if you don't want to pay, you chintzy k*ke.

[Anonymous No.12803824]

>>12803119
It's the same with every cheap cut. Fact of the matter is we are consuming way more meat than we used to. So these cheapo byproducts that were sold for pennies are going to become valuable in just the manner you described.

[Anonymous No.12803863]

>>12802685
I work in a deli and it's absolutely a rip off, at least for the fried chicken we make. $1.49 for a leg/thigh, $1.99 for a breast, and $0.99 for a wing, but everyone buys it anyway. It's cheaper if you buy box deals, which give you some of everything. People regularly spend stupid amounts on chicken though, like buying 10 legs and 10 thighs for $30 because they didn't want to get a box and get wings/breasts too.

[Anonymous No.12803992]

>>12802685
Buys whole chicken once a week
Saves wings in freezer

[Anonymous No.12804222]

>>12803172
Because they're made out of potatoes, so they can be marked up hundreds of percent without people noticing.