Accounting for resturant

That's good costing technique. What do you follow? Everyone follows absorbed costs. Because of your only guy asking for a refill it's a loss. If all employees refill once in a while, everything is absorbed. 

Coming to think of it even marginal cost will do the same. Refill is not a variable cost here nor a fixed cost. So on a trial and error your manager will how much anyone eats. 

Not a grrat treatment. Its purely maths and how the discount is allocated. This is not a complex scenario in customer optiins in revenue recognition and promotuinal. I have refresh manythings treatments in standards and promise to get back to you tomorrow. Because i have ready treatments for discounts, unwinding discounts and free additiinal goods transferred under revenue recognition. Your talking about extra food and i have to be prudent in treating it. Usually its trial and error or adjusted market assessment because the restaurant people already know their profits and apetitite of average customers. See ya tomorrow

Now in my view i thibj the accounting treatment for refills is not explained. But ee can imagine it.

1 free refill cost will be allcated to the transaction price 500

If 10 meals sold and one cuatomer did not ask for a refill, it can be treated as addriinal gain.

Iys hard to measure like this but since food is perishable, write off the one refill from inventory.

This has to be the daily practice.  So treat it as a gain if you can measure it or write it off from inventory. But this is not a loss to you as it is covered in transaction price. 

Some people can gather all leftover refills and sell it as a mew meal recognise it as revenue. Its wrong to report gsin as revenue

It cannot be a loss because you have charged for it. If refilling is free, it can be a loss depending on if the company wants to charge it on customers indirectly or not

Loss or promotional expense

If the company gives free refill willingly to promote its business, this is an expense because loss is tax exempt. 

If the company is forced to give a free refill then it is a loss because matters are beyond management

cost to company 400

sold for 500

realised profit is 100 and in this 50 worth of refill. If someone deosnt take a refill, it will reused for another meal. under these circumstances I believe a gain must be recorded along with revenue

Dr. Cash 500

Cr Revenue 450

Cr Gain on refill 50

Then write off inventory 

Dr. write off expense or/reserves 50

Cr. Inventory 50

So this gain and write off will offset. What do you think is best here? 

Then when you offer it for free 

Dr. cash 450

Dr. Refill/promotional expense 50

Cr. Revenue 450

Cr. Cash 50