Concessions planning for booster clubs

Know what to buy for every game, and what you made on it.

FunnelCake knows a case holds six #10 cans and that one can yields forty-four servings, so it turns your schedule into an order sheet in whole cases with a dollar total. After the game it tells you what each item actually made. It runs alongside however you already take money at the window.

No card up front. Two full game weeks — project, order, reconcile.
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How much do you need for your next home game?

FootballExpected attendance1,800
Suggested quantities: football, 1,800 attending.
ItemServingsCases
Hot dogs1236 cases
Nachos583 cases
Soft drinks80534 cases
Bottled water43018 cases

Typical high-school stand figures, not yours.

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Built for stands running ten or more events a season — football, basketball, wrestling, tournaments, band competitions — and placing a $2,000 order most weeks.

From the invoice to the margin.

FunnelCake covers the part of the week that happens before the doors open and after they close: the pack sizes, the recipes, the order, and what each item made. It works the same whether you run Square, a booster platform, or a cash box, so nobody has to change how the stand gets paid to try it.

Sales results come back in from whatever you already use. Each event you record makes the next projection better, and a Friday football crowd stops being confused with a Tuesday home game.

What it does
Item catalog with real pack sizesRecipes and per-serving costPer-event sales projectionOrdering to whole casesGameday prep and receivingProfit by item and by eventSeason handoff to the next chairItem catalogRecipe costingSales projectionsWhole-case orderingGameday prepProfit by itemSuccessor handoff

Never a point of sale — FunnelCake takes no payment of any kind.

Set up your menu onceStart from a library of 45 menu items and 77 ingredients, already portioned. Adjust them to your stand.
Project each eventExpected quantities per item, with revenue and margin from your own prices and costs.
Order in whole casesNet of what is already on the shelf. Export the list and hand it to whoever makes the run.
Reconcile after the gameRecord what actually sold. The next projection is built on it instead of on a guess.
The real competition

Keep the spreadsheet. This is the part it can't do.

A shared sheet costs nothing, everyone on the committee can open it, and as a list of what is on the shelf it is genuinely fine. Three jobs it cannot do, and each one costs money quietly.

Cost per servingA case of chili is six cans, each 15 ounces, and a serving is four. That is 22.5 servings per case — not a number anybody works out in their head, and the same can goes into a cup of chili, a Frito pie and a chili cheese dog at three different portions. A sheet will hold those numbers. It cannot notice when one of them goes stale.
Order against the shelfAn order is a projection, minus what is already on the shelf, rounded up to whole cases and split by supplier. On a sheet that is a fresh count and a fresh retype, every week. Miss one subtraction and you buy what you already have.
Learn from FridayWhat sold on Friday should change what you buy on Thursday. In a sheet it changes nothing until somebody goes back and rewrites the formulas, so most weeks the guess stays the same guess.

And a sheet has one author. When they hand the stand on in May, the formulas go with them.

When the chair changes

Don't hand your successor a shoebox.

The concession chair turns over about once per year, and the next one usually starts from a box of receipts, a key and a supplier's business card. At the end of a season, FunnelCake hands over the season itself.

See the season report

The season reportWhat sold and what each event and item made, what was ordered and what arrived, and the menu and the shelf as they stand. On screen and as a PDF, with a plain note of what it cannot tell them.
Getting started next seasonFive steps built from your own season: count what is in the building, check the menu and prices, set up the events, run a prep for each, and record what sold.
Notes the next chair will findKeys, codes and the building. Suppliers and accounts. What didn't work. Written while you still remember, and kept with the season they belong to.
Invite the next chairBy email, even before they have an account. Accepting makes them the owner, keeps you on as an admin, and opens the report.
The arithmetic

You ordered $3,100 of food for last week's games and threw away $400 of it. Finding one of those weeks a season more than covers what FunnelCake costs.

Last week's order$3,100
Thrown away$400
Season margin18.4%
Waste, a full season$4,000

Figures shown are an illustration, not a customer result.

Try it for two game weeks.Two full loops — project, order, reconcile — and a variance report you can forward to the board.
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