Question

Your restaurant serves 50 bowls of French onion soup daily and each serving has 9 ounces of edible portion of onion per portion. Assuming the Yield Percentage on the Whole Onions is 74%, the AP Price for Whole Onions is $2.00 per lb, and the AP Price for Sliced Onions is $4.00 per lb. How many pounds of sliced onions will be required to make 50 bowls of soup?

Answer 1

Answer: 28 pounds

Step-by-step explanation: So, we know that you sell 50 bowls of French onion soup a day.

If each bowl has 9 ounces of onion in it ( Wow that's a lot of onion!)

Then what we are going to do is 9(50) = 450 So, you use 450 ounces of onions a day. Now there are 16 ounces in a pound, so we divide 450 by 16 and get about 28 pounds. So you would need to get around 28 pounds of sliced onions.