Break-even calculator
Your break-even point is how much you need to sell just to cover your costs: no profit, no loss.
Example numbers, made up: The starting numbers are a made-up small business, not real costs.
Costs that stay about the same however much you sell: rent, salaries, insurance, loan payments.
What a customer pays, on average, each time they buy.
What each sale costs you on its own: the food or product, packaging, the card fee.
To turn the month into a day. Leave it blank to skip.
Example numbers
Break-even
1,334 sales a month
That's $20,010 in sales. Each sale leaves $9.00 toward the fixed costs; every sale past 1,334 is profit.
A day
45 sales
Over 30 days open, rounded up.
- Money from sales
- Total costs
- Fixed costs
- Break-even: 1,334 sales
- Loss
- Profit
How it's worked out
Sales to break even = fixed costs ÷ (price − cost of one sale), rounded up. → $12,000 ÷ ($15.00 − $6.00) = 1,334
How it's worked out
Sales to break even = fixed costs ÷ (price − cost of one sale), rounded up. → $12,000 ÷ ($15.00 − $6.00) = 1,334
Learn the idea behind it
Free lesson
How many guests just to stay even?
Sort a restaurant's costs into fixed and variable, fill in a break-even sheet, and see what happens when the rent goes up.
Take the lesson
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