GGB OPEX
The recurring cost of running the operation: rent, utilities, salaries, supplies. What revenue must clear every month.
Operating expenditure is everything the restaurant pays to keep trading: rent, utilities, salaries, maintenance, licences, marketing and supplies. Unlike capex it never stops, which makes the opex structure, especially the fixed part of it, the real determinant of how much revenue the venue must produce. Rent discipline matters most: a viable operation typically holds rent within 6–12% of revenue.
Illustrative monthly opex: rent AED 20,000, utilities AED 8,000, salaries AED 54,000 and other supplies and services AED 10,000, a total of AED 92,000 before any food is purchased. Against AED 200,000 of revenue, rent sits at 10%, inside the typical 6–12% viability band.
Put opex through the break-even