Your kitchen already runs.
See what a daily-meal line adds.

Move the number of customers — every cost follows. Profit updates live.

Country benchmark

Net profit / month — same model, two ways to run it

Recommended

As an add-on to a kitchen you already run

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fixed costs already paid · profit from bag one

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more profit kept

Built from scratch / standalone

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carries full rent, utilities & overhead

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Break-even (standalone)

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customers/day to cover overhead

Contribution margin

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after variable costs

Net margin (add-on)

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profit ÷ revenue

Contribution margin vs. healthy band (25–35%)

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The engine — customers per day

1 customer = 1 bag/day = 5 meals. Every cost below scales with this.

200 customers/day · —

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The big levers — start here

Price per bagwhat a customer pays for one day (5 meals)

€

Food cost per bagingredients for 5 meals

€

Delivery days / monthcooking & billing days · 22 = Mon–Fri

Local Big Mac priceportable price anchor — a bag (a day) should sit at 3–6× a Big Mac

€

Monthly revenue—

Bags produced / month—

Labour & fulfilment —+

Kitchen labour — minutes / bagcook time per bag · benchmark 6–10 min

min

Packing labour — minutes / bagportion + pack + sort per bag · benchmark 2–5 min

min

Hourly wagefully-loaded labour cost per hour

€

Labour — % of revenue

kitchen + packing · healthy ≤22%

Transport per deliverycourier cost per address, per day

€

Packaging per bagbox + bag + labels per bag

€

Payment-gateway feeStripe / PayPal ≈ 2.9% + fee · healthy ≤3%

Contribution margin—

Fixed costs —+

The add-on column in the hero ignores everything below — your existing business already pays these. The standalone column carries them in full.

Rentkitchen + cold storage

€

Utilitiesgas, power, water

€

Equipmentpurchase, leasing & repairs

€

Cleaning & upkeephygiene, maintenance

€

Accounting & legal

€

Marketingcustomer acquisition

€

IT, systems & technology

€

Admin staff

€

Break-even & leverage — net profit vs customers/day (standalone)

The waterfall — money left after each level (add-on view)

Breakdown — standalone P&L

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