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By Eric F. Nusbaum, PhD, CHA Recently I have been getting a lot of phone calls from operators experiencing food, beverage, and labor cost problems. Given the stagnant economy, increase in competition from new chain units, and rising costs of ingredients, the need to control costs is understandable. Now is probably a good time for a refresher on the basic principles of cost control. I believe that there are eight key points to keep in mind when developing a cost control system and I have listed and described each one below.