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I can't seem to find a thread for what Master Chefs charge. I got MC the other day and am having fun with it, but need to know what to charge.

thnx for help in advance

(namely I'm looking for : BOH, AFS, Vercupti, Tat Sun, Cor FIC, and Rhyscate)

It varies a bit from server to server and chef to chef. A good place to start is this site:

http://www.ralloszek.net/swg/ChefPricing.htm

That gives prices per dose of the final item, based on buff size, required resources, and factory time. I think it's a little high for my market, so I use those numbers with the number of charges one or two down from what I'm actually selling (so multiply by 3 for a 5 dose stack), with a bit of leeway depending on how well I think the buff size came out.

I sell Angerian for 1100 per 7 stack, Sunburn 1250 per 5 stack, BoH 4500 per10 stack, Ice cream 700 per 4 stack, and Rysh 1200 per 8 stack.

When I do special orders, 2500c/enhancement I have to touch.

Nonmaster items, 5k. High % slices adds value.

Master wpns, roughly 20k(except T21s and Rocket Launchers are more)

There are a long list of weapons I don't make, cuz they are broken and need fixed.

Vasarian brandy 60flora * 1000 units = 300k for flora+ 900k cost of the broad spec or 1,200,000 for cpu cost of 40 crates

snowcake 55flora * 1000 units = 275k for flora + 900k cost of the broad spec or 1,175,000 for cpu cost of 40 crates

Rather then break down every item like this I'm comfortable with using the vasarian brandy as the mean or middle point for those chef items not using creature food or structural. My first instinct would be to [triple] theingredient costto come up with the retail price for the item (this is commonly done in the restaurant business). The breakdown is 33% food cost, 33% labor cost, and the remainder fixed and variable cost (utilities and maintenance). So your profit is your salary drawn from thelabor cost and whatever is left from fixed and variable.

cost times 3 or 3 * 1,200,000 = 3,600,000 divided by 40(crates) is 90k per crate of vas brandy or snowcake.

Now lets look at what we actually pay for the broad spectrum and add that in the formula. A good average cost to us for the broad specrum is 40k per crate:

40k * 40 crates (1000 units) = 1,600,000

Ok so our BE friend is charging 1,600,000 for a product that cost him 900k so his mark up is just under 44% or 700k perfactory runover his material cost. lets see how this effects the price of our brandy:

cost of broad spec 1,600,000 + our flora cost 300k equals 1,900,000

cost times 3 = 5,700,000 for 1000 units divided by 40(crates) = 142.5k for a crate of vas brandy

quite a difference. As we can see the BE products play a huge (disproportionate)role in determining how much we charge for our products. However 40k per crate for the broad spectrums is not bad and allows the BE to earn a decent profit.

I'm currently charging 150k for a 10use (large glass) crate and 120k for a small glass crate and 120k for all foods requiring the broad spectrum per crate. After looking at this I will discontinue the small glass crates and charge 120k for all crates requiring broad spectrum whether food or drink.

The problem is everything is dominated by brandy. 25 * 2k a tissue used to enhance a 300-600K crate of Brandy is not unreasonable

There are always different deals to be made though and some BEs, many BEs like to craft and supply people partly because it's useful and because they can

Take something like Jawa Beer. Jawa Beer rocks for a BE because that extra boost makes them much much better at avoiding the rancors etc they are trying to sample

I gave a MBE friend a +7 Mask Scent Jawa Beer sample (don't laugh, I crit failed the experimentation). She is raving about it - it makes a big difference to her

From there it's a short step to supplying your friend with crates of Bio enhanced Jawa Beer to help her do her job and from her supplying additives, perhaps even additives made of sub quality meat, to enhance products which don't have the market impact of Vasarian Brandy

Use your knowledge of chef products to make her job easier. Someone who gets hit twice per hour by rancors will certainly appreciate Flameout and the burst run food is very useful to a DNA sampler, as is Ormacheck if they are not Master yet

If you put time, thought and effort into making her play experience better she will likely do the same for you quite irrespective of economic considerations. It's not like anyone has mortagages to pay with their SWG income

Just cultivate relationships, the game is better the more you socialise anyway

Looking at the ever-so-popular brandy...

I can sell a crate of normal brandy for 150,000.

I can sell a crate of bio-brandy for 200,000.

So from my point of view, the 150,000 is mine and the tissues plus my skillmake for a difference of 50,000.

How you then split the 50,000 is the only question in my mind, the 150k has nothing to do with the engineer. The bio-engineer is putting in skill, resources and factory time. The chef is putting in skill (resources and factory time are accounted in the first 150k) so the bio-engineer should get 75% plus by that logic alone.

IF you have problems selling normal brandy, want to stand out/gain more regular trade by having bio-brandy available, or gain any other personal benefit by using bio-brandy rather than normal brandy then there is a strong argument that the entire 50k should go to the bio-engineer.