So....this looks like a sheet to figure out how much got wasted in a given day/week/whatever. So like somebody ordered a hamburger and it got sent back for having mustard on it, or a partial bag of lettuce didn't get used, and not its too old and has to be thrown out. This is important because that means its probably used for depreciation at the end of the year, because you can deduct the lost inventory cost on your taxes. This means these numbers are the bare minimum physical ingredient costs. As emptyvoid asked, it does NOT include shipping, labor, electricity, etc. The actual cost to the McDonalds on most of that stuff is much, much higher due to all the overhead that also gets applied to each item. Their actual profit margin isn't nearly as good as you are all thinking.
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