Break-even Calculator
The most important number on a restaurant P&L. Enter rent, salaries, utilities, and variable cost rate — get your daily and monthly break-even. Public extract of the in-product panel.
Monthly fixed costs
Every line that does not move with covers.
Electricity, gas, water, internet, software
Variable cost and operating days
The share of every rupee of revenue that gets spent earning it.
Food cost % + variable labour + packaging + commission. Typical: 32–40%.
Most restaurants run 28–30 days.
Your break-even
LiveIf your variable cost % moves…
Even a 2-point swing on food cost % changes break-even materially.
| Variable cost % | Daily break-even | Monthly break-even |
|---|---|---|
| 30% | ₹31,667 | ₹9,50,000 |
| 32% | ₹32,598 | ₹9,77,941 |
| 34% | ₹33,586 | ₹10,07,576 |
| 36% | ₹34,635 | ₹10,39,063 |
| 38% | ₹35,753 | ₹10,72,581 |
| 40% | ₹36,944 | ₹11,08,333 |
| 42% | ₹38,218 | ₹11,46,552 |
What is a restaurant break-even point?
Your break-even point is the revenue level — and roughly how many customers — at which you cover 100% of costs with zero profit and zero loss. Every rupee above break-even contributes to net profit; every rupee below burns cash.
How to calculate break-even (step-by-step)
- Contribution margin % = 100 − variable cost % (food + variable labour + packaging + commission).
- Break-even revenue = Total fixed monthly costs ÷ (CM% ÷ 100).
- Break-even customers = Break-even revenue ÷ average ticket value.
- Daily target = Monthly customers ÷ operating days.
Example: ₹3,00,000 fixed costs with 65% variable costs → CM% = 35% → break-even = ₹3,00,000 ÷ 0.35 ≈ ₹8.57 lakh/month.
What this calculator gets right
Most Indian restaurant break-even templates online give a single static number. This one runs a sensitivity table at ±2 to ±8 percentage points on variable cost — because in real operations, food cost % moves with onion / tomato / chicken weekly. If the table shows your daily break-even swinging by ₹15,000–₹25,000 over a 4-point variance, your business is one mandi spike from a loss month.
After break-even, check whether you actually keep money with the profit calculator, project covers with the revenue calculator, and for a deeper tear-down see the in-product Break-even panel.
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