Prices for selling your Q??

Prices will vary greatly by area. I charge $3.99 /lb (finished weight) for pulled pork
$4.99 /lb for Brisket

I have seen prices as high as $8/lb for pulled pork in some larger cities.

Basic rule is figure your cost per pound of cooked food and multiply by 3.

That is right but remember that 50% shrinkage?! If you paid 1 dollar per pound, now it is 2 dollars a pound.
Anyway....short fpr time, Food cost times 3 plus a little covers everything. In your case, food per pound times 2. Multiply that times 3 or even 2.5 since you are not post prepping. It will still be cheaper than anyone else and you make a dime~ Litterally! lol
Zeb

I have been selling whole butts for $5.50 per lb. It is a reasonable deal for me and a good deal for the customers. But at the local chain, they sell pulled pork for $8.95 per lb.

John

dennis
i follow the method zeb does but it requires good notes over a period of time. my notes say i get about 40-50% shrinkage average on my fec (and from what i have seen about the same on peggy's sm150). so to use my latest prices i paid .99/lb on bone in butts. this gives me a cooked cost of 1.98/lb if i multiply that by 3 i get 6.00/lb. now figuring in gas for the generators and labor ect. and local pricing i have found i can go as high as 8.00/lb pulled.
on slabs of ribs i make them buy a minimum of two since in the cryovac for 3 1/2 downs from my supplier they come packed 2 to the vac. those go for 18.50/slab
and above all we have a 50.00 minimum with 50% down when the order is placed.
since we run off of generators our biggest concern now is gas prices but to be honest i can run both honda eu3000is gennies for 72 hours at a maximum fuel usage of 14 gals but it is a consideration until you figure in the maximum load of an fec100 and a sm150 (and lord i cant wait for that order!!!)
hope this helps
jack

Cooked Brisket & Pork going for $9.95 per pound at Junior's Texas BBQ in Cathederal City, CA.

Wow, those Texans sure do stuff big!

Sorry Guys you need to be in the Big Apple

We sell Pulled Pork for 15.95 and Brisket for 16.95

David

i sell pulled pork...cooked weight at $5.00 a .lb only if the butts i have bought were .99 cents a pound or below...prep and pull time is minimal since i don't season the butts till after i have pulled them...then i just put the pork in a gallon plastic zip lock and it is good to go...
hi chef hows the biz???
you goning to the callhan event???
bluberry festival...
also i have finally done it...Eight Flags Sauce Co. is my sauce company and is doing well here in fernandina...

Guys,

My thoughts. Don't be cheap, you can't compete with a restaurant selling volume.

Sell it a QUALITY meat, with Individual service and if they want the cheap stuff, let them go somewhere else.

Remember, once you set a price for them, it's hard to go up.

Just my thoughts.

Russ

pirate!!!!!!!
yep we will be at callahan.
stop on by
the trailer is ez to find
looks like a big ole belluga whale with 2 red racing hounds on the side!!!
glad ya got the sauce company up and running. wanna swap cold beer for a small 2 oz jar????
jack
ps. with the cost of gas being what it is and peggy booking us at the farmers market we decided that the about the only contests we are going to do for sure is callahan because tom pippin is a really good guy, minneola because the people are so nice there and frank cosmo's contest in winter haven. kinda miss the comps but to be honest the money at the market aint bad and after hearing one team say our greyhound graphics were obscene at 2 different fba contests (said the looked like two dogs humping) i really like making money over headgames. nice part was we kicked their rumps in pulled pork at okeechobee
peg and i do hope ya stop by