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How many covers a day to break even?
Most owners know their rent but not their break-even. Enter your fixed costs, average spend and variable cost — see the revenue and covers per day you need to clear every cost. Confidential.
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Break-even revenue
The monthly sales you need just to cover every cost — before a dirham of profit.
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Covers per day
Translated into guests per day, so the target is something a floor can actually run to.
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Margin of safety
How far above (or below) break-even you are today — the buffer that keeps you solvent.
Results, measured
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Food cost %
Theoretical vs actual, by item and by outlet — usually the fastest margin to recover.
Labour vs sales
Productivity per shift measured against revenue, not a blanket headcount cut.
Delivery economics
Channel mix and menu pricing rebuilt around real aggregator commission.
Payback
Every intervention measured against the capital and the time it takes to return.
Questions
- What is break-even for a restaurant?
- The point where revenue exactly covers fixed and variable costs — no profit, no loss. Below it you are funding the business from reserves; above it, the contribution on each cover becomes profit.
- How accurate is this estimate?
- It is indicative, from your inputs, using a 30-day month. A full model uses real trading days, daypart mix, ramp-up and seasonality — but this gets you the order of magnitude fast.
- What counts as a fixed vs variable cost?
- Fixed costs do not move with sales (rent, salaried staff, utilities, overheads). Variable costs scale with each sale (food, packaging, delivery commission). The split is what drives the contribution margin.
- Why does break-even matter before I sign a lease?
- Because the rent you commit to sets the fixed cost the whole model has to clear every month. Knowing the covers-per-day target before you sign is the cheapest risk check there is.