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Break-Even Calculator
The monthly revenue, and the daily covers, required to cover the fixed cost base.
Your numbers
Rent, fixed salaries and overheads that do not move with volume.
Food, packaging, commission and variable labour, as a percentage of revenue.
Results
- Break-even revenue per month
- 163,636
- Contribution per transaction
- 35.75
- Break-even transactions per month
- 2,517
- Break-even transactions per day
- 84
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To turn a fixed cost base into a daily operational target.
Break-even is usually quoted as a revenue figure, which is hard to manage against. Expressed as covers per day it becomes an operational target the floor can recognise.
Enter the monthly fixed cost base — rent, salaries that do not vary with volume, overheads — the variable cost percentage of revenue, and the average transaction value. The calculator returns break-even revenue, break-even covers per month and per day, and the contribution each transaction makes towards the fixed base.
How to read this
Break-even is a floor, not a target. It says what the business must do to cover its fixed base, not what it must do to be worth running — that requires a return on the capital invested as well.