My niece’s husband ran and eventually managed a Papa John’s...he said the cost of the ingredients for a pizza was about 50 cents.
Cost of ingredients is usually not the big cost. Overhead (store, corporate costs, electricity and other utilities, labor, shipping, etc) are usually the biggest costs to products. I heard the CEO of Starbucks complain about insurance costing the corporation more than coffee cost them.
Your highest cost is labor. Now even more expensive. They will find a way to automate the process, cut down on labor costs and even more people will be out of a job.
I assume McDonald’s, Burger King, Pizza Hut, Wendy’s, Taco Bell and all the others will fall into this category as well.
The unintended consequences of Obozocare are still to come.........
Back in the 1970s, I worked at Pizza Hut, and I always thought that the biggest cost in making pizza was the labor...
Back then, we made the dough every day (both "thin" and "pan" crusts, totally different recipes). Though we had spice mixes for the sauces (3 different sauces: 1 for thin, another for thick, and 1 for the pasta we served). We also had quite a bit of prep work every morning: As I recall, the opening cook had to be there to get started at about 7:00am, for an 11:30am opening. I believe that everything now comes into the stores pre-done: The sauce, the dough, and toppings, etc.
Pizza hut was a lot better back then, as I recall.
Mark