Creative Cost-Cutting with Soufflé Cups

Creative Cost-Cutting with Soufflé Cups

Like many businesses, the restaurant industry has been challenged to get customers inside their doors to dine during difficult financial times.
 
Even as conditions improve for the industry, keeping costs down (and customers inside the restaurant) is still a major concern.
 
Food Network celebrity chef Tyler Florence opened his recent food venture by stocking up on large-quantity inventory. If restaurateurs are purchasing food and packaging in bulk, it opens up another opportunity to serve clients and save on individual packaging.
 
Catering companies, restaurants and retailers can present desserts and sauces in disposable soufflé cups in a wide-variety of sizes, ranging from 1 to 5.5 oz, and made with No. 5 recyclable material.
 
Restaurant owners who buy in bulk can cut costs and add convenience. Side sauces, desserts and dressing items give something extra to diners and can be bought in large quantities.
 
Restaurant staff can use soufflé cups to measure portions of salsa, for example, and serve in economic sizes. Adding a compatible lid to salsa soufflé cups allows versatility as a take out to-go container. Dining flexibility, like a dine-in or to-go option, is another way for restaurants to win customers.
 
A spokesperson for the National Restaurant Association says that the foodservice industry should focus on these kinds of fundamentals of customer convenience more than ever before.
 
“Operating in a challenging economy calls for increasing productivity and managing costs to keep menu prices in check and guests in the door,” she says. “It also sharpens the importance of giving guests what they want by providing options they are looking for, including environmental sustainability.”
 
“Operating in a challenging economy calls for increasing productivity and managing costs to keep menu prices in check and guests in the door,” she says. “It also sharpens the importance of giving guests what they want by providing options they are looking for, including environmental sustainability.”