Sustainability Is More Efficient
When you can serve nutritious, tasty food while also conserving storage space, reducing waste, and saving money on shipping, everyone wins.
Select the Products Your Facility Needs
Food Concepts is pleased to offer a variety of dry food products for the Food Service Industry. Our products are “add water only” at your site, drastically reducing freight costs so you can offer quality products while maximizing storage space and reducing waste.
Contact us for delivered-to-unit pricing, samples, and further product specifications—and ask about our spices and portion-control condiments.
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Food Concepts Products Biggest Benefit—You Don’t Pay to Ship Water
Did you know that when you pay to ship prepared products, most of the shipping cost is due to water weight? Why pay to ship products that are mostly water when you can add that water at your facility?
Consider that a typical can of ready-to-use (RTU) tomato sauce is 89% water. Beverages are often just water with added flavoring. The same is true for most gravies, sauces—and even pudding and gelatin.
On the other hand, buying powdered and dehydrated food products eliminates water, resulting in substantial savings, enhanced safety, less waste, and increased storage space at your facility.
Save on Freight
Freight costs are rising every day, due in most part to increasing trucking wages and fuel costs.
One way to offset freight costs is to reduce the shipping weight on orders. After all, the more your package weighs, the more it costs to get it to your facility. Here’s an example of how it works:
Ready-to-Use Tomato Sauce
| RTU tomato sauce is 89% water. Six #10 cans = 660 ounces or 39.75 pounds. LTL freight is $0.15 per pound. 39.75 pounds X $.015 = $5.96 in freight charges. |
| Since 89% of the weight is water, 39.75 pounds of that sauce is WATER. That means $5.30 of the $5.96 in freight charges can be attributed to shipping water. |
| Those ten cans will yield 165 four-ounce servings. |
| If we divide the shipping cost ($5.96) by the number of servings (165), the freight cost is $0.036 per serving. |
$.036 to Ship Each Serving
Dehydrated Tomato Sauce
| Compare that to dehydrated tomatoes. |
| Six 12.5-ounce bags will yield 660 ounces, or 4.7 pounds. 4.7pounds X $0.15 = $.70. |
| Those six 12.5-ounce bags will yield 165 four-ounce servings (the same number of servings as the RTU sauce). |
| But when you divide $.70 in shipping costs by 165 servings, your freight cost is only $0.00424 per serving! |
$.00424 to Ship Each Serving
Do You Want to Save 737% on One Food Item?
Let’s suppose you order food to serve 1,000 inmates in a correctional & detention facilities.
If you can save $.03176 on freight per serving, time four orders per month, times 12 months in the year…..
That’s a savings of $1521.60 on just one line item per year.
How would that affect your bottom line?
Contact us today to discuss even more saving possibilities.
Consider Even More Benefits of Serving Food Concepts Products
When you serve our products at your facility, you can expect to enjoy these benefits:
Not Finding What You’re Looking For?
Contact us now. We’ll be happy to work with you to create a specific product that meets all your facility’s dietary needs.
Are You Ready to Experience All the Benefits that Come with Food Concepts Products?
Our team is ready to discuss your facility’s unique requirements, so we can meet your needs with dehydrated and powdered foods that are economical, nutritious, and easy to store and prepare. Let’s see how we can help enhance your operations!