"Dave Smith" > wrote in message
...
> jmcquown wrote:
>
>>
>> > Well seeing as this is a cooking group and seeing as how you think this
>> > is
>> > 1950 and you can get pancakes for 50 cents, maybe a compomiuse would be
>> > for you to learn to cook your own? I mean if you want something done
>> > right you have to do it yourseld. And you don't have to tip either.
>> >
>> > Paul
>> Good lord, who peed in your Cheerios? Everyone knows you can make
>> pancakes
>> for next to nothing. Lou certainly knows it. It was merely an
>> observation
>> on his part that $4.99 for pancakes (all you can eat or not) is probably
>> not
>> a "deal". Maybe you'd better go make some peanut butter pancakes
>
> I figure that it costs me less than $1 for the ingredients to make a batch
> of
> pancakes that will feed four people, and that is using real ingredients.
> My
> scratch pancakes are a hell of a lot better than anything I have ever had
> in a
> restaurant. Then there is the cost of the syrup. I use real maple syrup,
> not
> that grotesque sugar slop they give you in restaurants.


Buttermilk is not exactly cheap these days. I quart makes 2 batchesand it
is 2.50 a quart at my market, so that is about 1.25 per batch. Butter is
not exactly cheap, figure 1/2 stick for the batter and the table easily -
more if you like butter. Eggs are sky high, a dozen here is like 3 bucks
and I use 6 eggs per batch. Flour hasn't gotten too bad yet. I figure a
batch to feed 2 hungry eaters would probably cost me about 3.50 ro 4.00 not
including coffee. Now coffee prices are really escalating.

So 4.99 is quite a bargain - what is commonly called a "loss leader" in the
business world. They figure somebody comes in for the special and the
people they are with order something other than the pancakes.

Paul