How does a restaurant know how much food to make each day?

Question

I watch random food shows like “Food Paradise” on Travel channel, and “Triple D” by the Mayor of FlavorTown himself. When they speak to the owner/cook, they say things like “oh we cook 400 lbs of BBQ a day” or “about 3000 pancakes each day” or whatever. How do they know that’s what they will use? Seems like a guessing game.

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Answer 1

It is a guessing game. You get used to how busy it’ll be on certain days. Then if you run out of stuff you still have extra raw ingredients, so you hustle hard balancing cooking meals, and prepping everything else