Loaded with example numbers for a small Bangkok café — edit every field to see your own capital needed, break-even point, and payback period. Free, no signup.
Once you're open, track this every day
MinimalPOS turns these projections into real sales, cost, and profit reports automatically.
MinimalPOS records every order, tax, service charge and payment as it happens — so the figures this tool asks you to enter come out of your own sales instead of a spreadsheet.
How this free tool helps
Build a first-pass opening budget for a restaurant, café, bar, cloud kitchen, or food truck. Separate one-time setup costs from monthly operating expenses, add a cash cushion, and estimate break-even sales, covers, and payback time.
Planning capital is only the first stage. Once service begins, MinimalPOS connects restaurant orders, kitchen work, billing, inventory, customers, and reports so operators can compare the plan with actual activity.
Explore MinimalPOS Restaurant POSInclude premises and deposits, renovation, kitchen and front-of-house equipment, licences and professional fees, opening inventory, technology, marketing, hiring, and a cushion for early operating expenses.
Yes. It separates one-time opening costs from recurring monthly expenses so you can see both initial capital and ongoing cash needs.
Yes. Using your costs, average ticket, operating days, and margin assumptions, it estimates the revenue and daily covers needed to reach break-even.
No. It is an early planning estimate. Validate rent, wages, taxes, permits, supplier quotes, financing, and demand for your location before committing capital.
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Looking for operating advice? Read the MinimalPOS restaurant guides.