Chef Joe's at Roadhouse · Delta Roadhouse

A dollar a plate,
and what it buys

Every price, what each plate costs to make, and exactly what the Roadhouse receives — under both readings of “a dollar from each plate,” which is still the one term nobody has written down.

Opens Sunday 13 September 2026 Courtyard Sunday to Wednesday Rent none — the fee replaces it Costed 2026-09-06 · engine 2.13-shamrock-produce

This page is a snapshot, not a live feed. Every plate cost was computed by the prep engine on 2026-09-06 from engine build 2.13-shamrock-produce. Costs change there and this page is regenerated from them — it has no way to write back, which is deliberate: it is the page that gets shared.

Orders a service

Fee per plate

Counted per

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Chef Joe’s keeps — after food and the fee

Delta Roadhouse receives — in place of rent

Sales a service—

Fee as % of sales— percentage rent runs 6–10%

Roadhouse, a month— about 17 services

Food cost—

Every plate

price, what it costs, what each side gets

The fee lands on an order, not on a drink that rides along with one — so an attach item shows no fee under the per-order reading. Switch the control above to each item and it appears.

Plate	Price	Food	To Roadhouse	Joe keeps	Food %

Three drinks have no price. Bottled soda is the most-sold thing on the menu at a 0.45 attach rate — 6 units a service across the three, carrying $1.40 of cost and no revenue. Every figure on this page is understated until they are priced.

The wording, in money

the one term still unwritten

“A dollar from each plate” reads two ways, and the gap is wider than any cost decision in the business. A burger, fries and a drink is one order and three items.

Orders a service	Per order	Per item	Difference	Per order, of sales	Per item, of sales
50	$50	$84	+$34	5.4%	9.1%
75	$75	$125	+$50	5.4%	9.1%
100	$100	$167	+$67	5.4%	9.1%
140	$140	$234	+$94	5.4%	9.1%

Both readings are defensible, which is why it needs settling rather than assuming. Percentage rent in food service typically runs 6–10% of gross sales. At 75 orders, per-order lands at 5.4% — the fair end of that range. Per-item lands at 9.1% — the top of it.

The engine has read it as per order since the beginning, because the words were “a dollar from each plate” and a plate has meant an order throughout. That reading has never been confirmed by anyone at the Roadhouse.

And there is a third reading nobody has raised. The catering term sheet is unsigned and says the Roadhouse will “likely NOT charge for facility usage for 2026.” facility_fee_2026 is recorded as 0.

So the live range is $0, $75, or $125 a service. That is a sentence in an unsigned document deciding the largest recurring number between the two businesses.

What has to be decided

three of these are Joe’s, two are shared

Price the three drinks. Bottled soda costs $2.16 and is the single most-sold item. Until it has a price, sales and profit on this page read low.
Two items are priced but forecast at zero — the chicken salad at $15 and the Bang Bang at $16 both sit at a 0.000 share, so the model says nobody orders them. Either they are on the opening menu and need a share, or they are not and should come off.
Settle the per-plate wording in writing — per order, per item, or the zero the term sheet already says. shared
Agree what happens on a dark night. The courtyard has no food on 23 September because the trailer is at Grand View. shared
Confirm the fee is on food only, or whether a bottled drink sold through the Roadhouse POS counts as a plate at all.