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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I wandered over to the food and cooking section of DCUM because I had in mind to make a whole new post about the cost of making burgers at home vs. the price of a Wendy's burger.
By coincidence, other people seem to have Wendy's pricing on their minds as well since this thread is here and current.

I guess what I had in mind to say kind of goes along with this thread.  
So . .  yesterday I made 17 hamburgers.  After I was done, just for fun I pulled out my grocery store receipt and calculated how much each burger made at home ended up costing.  I came up with $2.45 per burger.
I was out on errands today and the weather was nice, so I went into Wendy's just to look at their menu and see how much a  quarter pound single burger costs.  It costs $5.60.  Grocery store food is not taxed, but Wendy's is.  So it would actually be about $6 for a Wendy's single.

Here is my math breakdown:
5 pound chub of ground beef:  $18
I mixed in with the ground beef 9  eggs and 2 packages of store brand lipton onion soup mix: $3.25
16 buns (I bought better quality of buns than the Wendy's kind): $6.50
3 tomatoes:  $3
2 onions: $1.50
1 head of iceberg lettuce: $2
American cheese or cheddar cheese slices I had on hand but let's estimate a cost for 17 burgers at:  $3
Condiments, pickle slices: $2
electricity costs for cooking at home: $2.50.
That all comes to $41.75, which comes to $2.45 per burger.

That is all I wanted to say.  [/quote]

Did you factor in your rent and utilities and give yourself a salary? [/quote]
No.  Rent and utilities would be the same whether I cook at home or go get takeout.  In regard to giving myself a salary, I would have to take it out of my bank account, present it to myself, the re-deposit it back in the same bank account.  So no, I did not factor all that in. [/quote]

So Wendy’s employees should cook the restaurant food at their homes? You realize this is not an apples to apples comparison?[/quote]

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