What the calculator works out
- Revenue = meals per day × delivery days per month × average price per meal
- Food and packaging = meals delivered × (ingredient cost + packaging cost)
- Payment fees = revenue × your gateway's fee percentage
- Riders = number of riders × monthly cost per rider
- Fixed costs = kitchen staff + rent and utilities + other monthly costs
- Profit = revenue − all of the above; margin = profit ÷ revenue
- Break-even = (riders + fixed costs) ÷ (price − ingredients − packaging − fees per meal) ÷ delivery days
Reading your result
If the break-even figure is close to — or above — the meals you deliver today, the business is fragile: a few lost customers turn profit into loss. You have three levers: raise the price, cut the cost per meal, or grow volume so fixed costs are shared by more meals.
Riders and fixed costs do not grow meal by meal, which is why the second hundred meals a day is far more profitable than the first. That is also why keeping existing customers matters so much.
The calculator does not include tax on profit, loan repayments or your own salary unless you add them to "other monthly costs". The starting figures are examples — replace them with yours.