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%)
The engine — customers per day
1 customer = 1 bag/day = 5 meals. Every cost below scales with this.
200 customers/day · —
The big levers — start here
what a customer pays for one day (5 meals)
€
ingredients for 5 meals
€
cooking & billing days · 22 = Mon–Fri
portable price anchor — a bag (a day) should sit at 3–6× a Big Mac
€
Monthly revenue—
Bags produced / month—
Labour & fulfilment —+
cook time per bag · benchmark 6–10 min
min
portion + pack + sort per bag · benchmark 2–5 min
min
fully-loaded labour cost per hour
€
Labour — % of revenue
kitchen + packing · healthy ≤22%courier cost per address, per day
€
box + bag + labels per bag
€
Stripe / 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.
kitchen + cold storage
€
gas, power, water
€
purchase, leasing & repairs
€
hygiene, maintenance
€
€
customer acquisition
€
€
€
Break-even & leverage — net profit vs customers/day (standalone)
The waterfall — money left after each level (add-on view)
Breakdown — standalone P&L
See these numbers on your real kitchen?
Book a 15-minute call — we plug in your actual costs and show where a daily-meal line lands for your operation.