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What does the income statement of the “average” McDonald’s look like? Janney Montgomery Scott restaurant analyst Mark Kalinowski says he’s often asked that. As a result, he has compiled an interesting table detailing his best estimate of the typical income statement for that “average” franchised, standard-format, U.S. McDonald’s restaurant. Among his estimates:
● Average annual sales = $2.7 million
● Average store-level operating income = 5.7%
● Average operating cash flow = $275,400
● Annual customer transactions = 575,000
● Number of customers served per day = 1,584 (vs. 1,052 daily in 2003-4)
● Average meal check = $4.75 (vs. $4.45 in 2003-04)
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I have worked 25 years with McDonalds based on my stores its close. The food cost is 27% average in my stores and management labor is 3.5% so these numbers are a little high.
Even after putting back in most of the finagled numbers it is still kind of crappy to own a McDonalds. Putting those numbers back in gives you a net income of about 10%. My buddy owns multiple Subways and they do about $400,000 per store and he nets around 20% give or take per store.
I figured out where they hid the money, in the rent charges. They are charging themselves about triple what it should be, slick.
How could the rent possibly be 32K a month?
Why is the rent so high? McDonald’s is the landlord and charges the franchisee a percentage of sales. 14.5% sounds about right as an average.
rent is a percentage of sale’s. 8% is the lowest it can be . some stores are at 14% for the highest. average store in socal is doing about 3 mill. operating profits are roughly 325k-400k. labor at a busier 3 mill store will be about 19-20.5% food cost will be 26-27& is the demographics are lower income dollar menu customers. food cost will be around 24.5-25.5% if your in a higher income area.
you might think rent is alot which it is but there is still alot of room to make alot of profit
those food cost numbers arent very accurate. also pac is not spot on. pac is generally above 30% for a store doing 2.7