Anyone know the profir margin on donuts

TheRightSide

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I went to the shop today to get some donuts for the kid. The place was packed. They cost 59c each or something like that. With overhead and everything else I wonder how many donuts or coffee they need to sell to start making money. Look like a good business though.


Bigbet could you help out with this one?

 

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Summary: Donuts are less in price compared to any other beverages but it's the highest markup food product - profit margin is around 600% - 700% over a donut. People also buy more than one donut but they don't do the same while buying a juice or soda. Find more valuable information on starting a doughnut shop.

 

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yeah, and if they are that busy, you can count on a coffee or milk to go with almost every purchase as well, unless its to go....that adds in to profit real quick...

 

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at my donut shop....its like 7 dollars for a dozen....or 89 cents each....

 

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I think its tough business to make money in, worse now compared to say 15-20 years ago.

There is Dunkin and KK, not much else.

 

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http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=11832028

[h=1]Man chokes to death during donut-eating contest[/h]7:01 AM Wednesday Apr 5, 2017

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A Colorado man fatally choked Sunday (Monday NZ time) while trying to eat a large donut.
Travis Malouff, 42, was at Voodoo Doughnut in Denver participating in the chain's "Tex-Ass Challenge", where the goal is to eat a one-pound glazed donut - the equivalent of six Voodoo donuts - in 80 seconds or less.
Participants are allowed to drink liquids and dunk the donut, according to contest rules, the Daily Mail reports.
Winners don't have to pay for the $4.50 donut and receive a button that reads: "I won the Tex-Ass Challenge".
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"It's tragic," Malouff's father, Curtis, told 9News. "It's a loss of life that shouldn't be."
Witnesses rushed to help Malouff when they saw that he was choking on the donut but were unable to perform the Heimlich maneuver because they weren't trained to do so.
Officials arrived at the popular donut shop around 1.30am on Sunday (local time) in the 1500 block of East Colfax Avenue after they were notified that Malouff was choking.
But it was too late. Malouff died in the shop's lobby from "asphyxia, due to obstruction of the airway," the Denver Office of the Medical Examiner announced.


"It's too much food for one person, even as the size that he was," witness Julia Edelstein told 9News. "That's too much for someone to eat. He was trying to force it down."
Foul play is not suspected, according to Denver police.
Voodoo Doughnut said they are "saddened by what happened" and are cooperating with police.
Curtis Malouff described his son as an "energetic and open-minded person".
"If a challenge is there - he'd probably take it," Malouff said.
Travis Malouff is survived by his father, mother Kay Malouff and brother Ferris Malouff.
Travis' death comes after a 20-ear-old woman in the United States died after choking during a pancake-eating competition on the weekend.
Caitlin Nelson, 20, of Clark, New Jersey, passed away Sunday at Columbia University Medical Center in New York City.

 

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I like Krispy Kreme.

Can't stand Dunkin Donuts...

 

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Just saw reports of a pancake eating contestant choking to death also

 

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Voodoo Donuts in Portland is my favorite donut shop.