Food business
Small Café
A walk-in food and drink business where daily customers and average spend drive sales.
This model tests: See how customer volume, ticket size, and monthly costs shape a café.
Example assumptions — adjust to your situation
United States
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Main driversMonthly result
healthyAt these numbers, this café would make about $2,706 a month — before you've paid yourself anything.
You need about 91 customers a day to break even. At 110 a day, that's a buffer of 19 customers (21%).
Money left over each month$2.7KOperating profitRevenue left after monthly variable and fixed costs.
Money coming in each month$24.3KRevenue
Share of each sale you keep11.13%Profit margin
Customers needed each day to break even91 customers/dayBreak-even
Profit from one visit$5Contribution per visit
Healthy buffer19 customers/day above break-even.
Core assumptions
MonthlyMonthly economicsRevenue compared with each cost
Break-even19 customers/day above break-even.
Break-even · 91Current · 110
0250 customers/day
Cost structureWhere monthly costs go
Food + drink 34%Staff 37%Rent 16%Other 13%
What changes the outcome?Drag, or use the arrow keys, to test customers per day.
More assumptions7 optional inputs
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