How to Identify Your Restaurant’s Best-Selling and Most Profitable Menu Items

To identify your restaurant’s best-selling and most profitable dishes, review item-level sales reports and rank menu items by quantities sold and revenue. Calculate each dish’s contribution by subtracting variable costs from its selling price, then multiply by units sold to measure total contribution.

Compare popularity with profitability because the highest-selling dish may not generate the greatest profit. Use menu engineering to decide which items to promote, reprice, or improve. Try Cash Cloud for free to explore sales reporting, inventory, and purchasing tools.