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The add-on column in the hero ignores everything below — your existing business already pays these. The standalone column carries them in full.
This free meal prep profit calculator shows what a prepaid meal-plan line would add to a kitchen you already run. Enter your plan price, food-cost share, packing and delivery cost, and subscriber count; it returns your weekly contribution after all variable costs, using your figures instead of invented averages.
It depends on three levers you already control: how many plans you sell, your food cost, and what each delivery costs you per bag. This calculator walks through each one. You enter your average plan price, the food-cost share you run today, your packing and delivery cost, and your weekly subscriber count. It returns the weekly contribution after food, packing, and delivery, plus a simple monthly view. The point is honesty, not hype. The model uses your figures, not someone else's averages, so the answer reflects your actual venue. If you already cook in licensed space with idle weekday hours, the prepaid format tends to add margin from the first week, because subscribers pay before you produce. If the numbers look thin, you will see exactly which lever to pull: price, food cost, or delivery cost per bag. I built the model from the same benchmarks I ran my three brands against, back when we packed roughly two thousand bags a day. And if you want the launch sequence behind these numbers, the founder's starter kit is here.
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Three pointers for interpreting what you just saw. If contribution per bag is negative, your dish price or food cost is the problem; the full margin ledger with every line item lives in is a meal prep business profitable. If contribution is positive but the weekly total feels small, the fix is subscriber count, and the ground game for that is in how to get your first meal prep customers. And if the whole model clears, the practical walk-through of bolting the line onto your kitchen is how to add a meal prep line, with the software side described on the Flambia System page.
Ready to turn a good result into a live line? The founder's starter kit hands you the launch sequence, scripts included. Copy how I did it.
