First, meat, seafood and other ingredients are frozen products, and the cost is relatively low. For example, most of the steak, pork belly and black-bone chicken rolls in the barbecue buffet at 55 are frozen products, and their prices will be much lower. Moreover, many cafeterias have limited supplies of prawns and crabs, so the cost will naturally be greatly reduced. For example, a big bone cafeteria with a price of 40 yuan may be considered very cost-effective, but it is very difficult to eat it back. Merchants have their own purchase channels, which greatly lowers the price of ingredients, and the side dishes are usually just simple seasonal vegetables, and the cost is not high.
Second, all kinds of fish balls occupy half of the country. Cafeterias usually have a large area filled with fish balls and crab chops, and the wholesale price of these hot pots is very low and full.
Third, the rent is low. Careful people will find that there are few cafeterias on the first floor, and the cafeterias in big shopping malls are basically on the fifth floor, and the rent is much cheaper than that of small restaurants operated separately.
Fourth, the labor cost is low. Cafeterias are different from other restaurants. Traditional restaurants need to hire a lot of staff: chef, white case, side dishes, second chef, waiter, etc., and the chef's salary is generally very high, so he has to get 10 thousand+,so the labor cost of a larger restaurant may be 70 thousand to 80 thousand. The cafeteria, on the other hand, is different. All the barbecue things are ready-made. Customers do it themselves. The restaurant only needs to hire a few chefs and several waiters to do it all, and the chefs don't have to have high cooking skills, so the salary is relatively low.
The most important thing is that no matter how much the buffet costs, people have so many appetites. Except for the real "big stomach king", ordinary people are basically satisfied by eating some meat and cooked food when they go in. Restaurants can pack all the food they can't finish, but cafeterias can't. In fact, it's not cheap to convert.