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12-09-2019, 04:56 PM | #1 |
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Charging for Whole Hog
How do you guys that do whole hog price it?
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12-10-2019, 05:49 AM | #2 |
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Same as everything else, calculate the cost, and align with my budget. If my FC% is 25%, I divide the cost of the ingredients by 25%, accounting for yield after cooking.
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12-13-2019, 05:56 PM | #3 |
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Join Date: 10-16-08
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Heavily! My cost for whole hog is nearly triple what butts cost, I have to get them from a butcher shop that orders them in for me and thaws them which is 30 minutes away. There are no local hog suppliers. The cook time in my Lang can be anywhere from 15-24 hours. We garnish the hogs for display and those items can cost $20-$30 not to mention it's all a lot more work. For those reasons and the fact that I really don't care to do it, we charge dang near double what we do for an event catered with pulled pork cooked from shoulders. I let them know upfront that I can save them money doing butts, however, some still want the whole hog. We do between 2-3 per year on average.
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12-15-2019, 02:53 AM | #4 |
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Also note a frozen hog will typically take 3-5 days to thaw in a walk-in or large fridge, possibly affecting your pricing. You off-set smoking them or cooking butterfly over heat? You could smoke a smaller pig for display (plus meat), while getting the bulk of the meat from larger secondary hogs, sides or shoulders cooked separately, if you're doing larger events...helps balance out the yield also.
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12-15-2019, 07:48 AM | #5 | |
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