1. A Coffee Shop has 49 Salmon filets in the freezer. There are 27 filets in the primary
refrigerator and 38 more in the auxiliary refrigerator. How many Salmon filets does the Coffee
Shop have on hand?
2. The Deli counter at the local grocery normally prepares 150 Italian Panini’s for the midmorning rush. 35 of these sandwiches are standing order for a business named Go West Travel.
For their special anniversary celebration, Go West Travel orders twice their standing order. How
many sandwiches should the Deli counter prepare?
3. A wedding reception is catered for 415 people. The caterer charges $36.50 per person which
includes tax. What is the total bill?
4. The caterer in question # 3 has charged another wedding party a total of $12,525 for their
reception. This included a $250 discount that was promised. How many people attended the
reception?
5. The produce delivery service delivered the following items:
10 lbs of sweet baby carrots ($0.79 per lb.)
6 lbs of celery ($0.49 per lb.)
12 lbs of walla walla onions ($1.09 per lb.)
36 tomatoes ($0.59 ea)
What was the total bill excluding taxes?
6. A sous chef earns $22.50 an hour. She worked 10 hours on Wednesday. How much did she
earn that day?
7. A restaurant receives an order of 255 lbs of golden delicious apples. If a box holds 15 lbs of
apples, how many boxes did the restaurant receive?
For questions 8 through 10, refer to the following scenario:
At the company picnic, the caterer noted the following drink orders:
75 8 oz juice servings
38 12oz sodas served
43 16 oz mineral waters served
8. How many ounces of soda were served?
9. How many total ounces of fluid were served?
10. After the picnic, there was no juice left, 12 sodas remaining, and 7 waters untouched. How
many ounces of fluid were left over?
Therefore, large elbow macaroni costs $.144 per portion.
Note: If you were pricing the total meal (plate cost), you would find the cost of one portion
for each item to the nearest mill. You add these costs to find the total meal cost and then
round to the nearest penny.
Problems
Here are a few standard unit conversions.
16 tablespoons = 1 cup 8 ounces = 1 fluid cup
2 cups = 1 pint 16 ounces = 1 pound
2 pints = 1 quart
4 quarts = 1 gallon
1. Use the standard unit conversions given above to fill in the following:
43 tablespoons = ________cups
3 fluid cups = ________ ounces
5 pins = _______ quarts
.75 gallons = _________cups
420 ounces = _________pounds
2. Sour cream is sold in 5-pound tubs. The Book of Yields says 1 pound of sour cream =
1.874 cups. How many cups of sour cream are in one tub?
3. World’s Finest Coffee (Decaf) is sold by the case where one case contains 48 6-ounce
packages. A restaurant uses 36 pounds of this coffee each month. How many cases must be
ordered per month?
4. If one 6-ounce package of the coffee mentioned in problem #3 makes about 18 servings of
coffee, how many servings are in a case?
5. A recipe for Brioche Parisienne (in Mastering the Art of French Pastry, page 201) uses
approximately 2 ounces of pate a brioche for each portion. If you are serving 65 people, how
many pounds of pate a brioche are required for this recipe?
6. Blanched, slivered almonds come in 3-pound cans and cost $56.92 per can. Pate d’
Amandes (almond paste) requires 10 ounces of these almonds to make about 2.25 pounds of
the paste. How many cans of blanched, slivered almonds are needed to make 12 pounds of
pate d’ amandes?
7. A #10 can of blueberries provides about 55 ounces of drained berries. One can costs
about $9.60. One ten-inch blueberry pie serves 8 people. If each pie uses 11 ounces of
blueberries, what is the portion cost of the blueberries?
8. A shipment of forty pounds of fresh, drawn (gutted) salmon is purchased for $4.50 per
pound. The filet yield of this fish is 27.2 pounds of salmon. If each portion consists of an 8ounce filet, what is the cost per portion?
9. Suppose you need 300 ounces of boneless, skinless half breasts of chicken. Suppose you
order untrimmed half breasts for $2.16 per pound. Each pound of untrimmed half breast of
chicken yields about 10.1 ounces of boneless, skinless half breasts. How many pounds of the
untrimmed chicken must you order?
10. A boneless, skinless half-breast of chicken weights about 5.3 ounces. What is the
portion cost of one half breast of chicken from problem #9?