Cost Analysis Of Chef Jackets -The Five Determinants989432

The prices of chef jackets  tend to vary considerably. You are even likely to find a chef jacket that costs ten times the cost of another type of chef jacket. In one store alone, two types of chef jackets may be sold, but if the other one is on sale, you can buy them at different prices. At this point you could not help but wonder what causes this disparity in the selling prices of these chef jackets. Let us try to look at the five determining factors for pricing these jackets..

It emerges that the first factor that plays a role in determining the cost of a chef jacket is, naturally, the sort of material used in making the jacket. The nature of these jackets is such that the people who make them are restricted, in terms of the materials they can use in making them (these being jackets that are, ultimately, meant to enhance kitchen hygiene). Those restrictions notwithstanding though, the chef jacket makers still have some leeway, when it comes to selecting the specific materials to use in making the jackets ' but within certain confines. All said and done, the jackets made out of the fabrics that are considered superior end up being sold at higher prices than those made out of fabrics that are considered to be somewhat inferior.

The second factor that plays a role in determining the cost of a chef jacket is, again quite understandably, the size. This is where the super-sized jackets are sold at higher prices than the smaller jackets. But we also have some vendors who opt to charge uniform prices for all jackets.

The third factor that plays a role in determining the cost of a chef jacket is the design: with the more elaborately designed jackets tending to be costlier than the simpler or plainer jackets. In terms of color, all these jackets are supposed to plain white. The makers are, however, allowed to design them in various ways (but within certain standards). In the final analysis, the more elaborately-design jackets are sold at higher prices than the simpler jackets.

The fourth factor that determines the cost of chef jackets is the manner in which they are procured. An hotelier who orders a chef jacket online, for instance, may ultimately pay less than one who orders the same item from a local tailor's store. Similarly, an hotelier who opts to buy a ready made chef jacket may pay less than one who orders for one to be custom-made.

And the fifth factor that plays a role in determining the cost of chef jackets is the number in which they are ordered. This is the situation where a person buying a single chef jacket is likely to pay a higher unitary price than the person ordering several jackets at once. The person ordering several jackets at once will, of course, end up paying a higher total price. But when that total price is divided by the number of jackets ordered, the cost per chef jacket in this case is likely to be lower. The difference is attributable to the so-called economies of scale, and the fact that chef jacket vendors are more inclined to give discounts to customers who order the jackets in bulk.