## Restaurant Break-Even Covers Calculator

URL: https://minimalpos.com/tools/restaurant-break-even-calculator

Estimate the sales target your restaurant, café, or bar needs before it starts producing profit. Enter fixed costs, variable-cost percentage, average ticket, operating days, and capacity to calculate break-even revenue and covers per day.

### Features

- Break-even monthly revenue
- Contribution margin
- Covers required per day
- Capacity comparison
- Average-ticket sensitivity table

### How it relates to MinimalPOS

Break-even is a target; daily operating data shows whether you are moving toward it. MinimalPOS connects billing with sales, item, table, service-type, payment, and peak-hour reports for ongoing review.

**How is restaurant break-even revenue calculated?** The calculator divides fixed costs by the contribution-margin ratio. The ratio is the share of each sales unit left after the variable-cost percentage you enter.

**How does it calculate covers per day?** It divides break-even revenue by average guest spend and then by the number of operating days in the period.

**Why does average ticket size change break-even covers?** When average spend per guest rises, fewer covers may be needed to reach the same revenue target, assuming the other entered costs and margins stay unchanged.

**Is this different from the startup cost calculator?** Yes. This tool focuses on the ongoing sales and covers needed to cover operating costs. The startup calculator focuses on opening capital, setup costs, cash cushion, and payback.