In other words, the state gets to keep the six to nine percent you charge as sales tax. With no sales tax, 28 to 32 percent of gross food sales is accounted for by food costs. An estimated 20 to 35 ...

When his parents sold him the donut business they'd run since 1978, they left a lot of themselves behind, says Dennis Gross. There were the recipes his father, Steve Gross, had been using for ...