Food safety logs and restaurant costs

Restaurant and Food Truck Costs

Cost pages for people running or planning a restaurant, bar or food truck. The startup and budget worksheets use your own costs, because prices vary by city and supplier; where a public source publishes a range it is named. The labor, pour cost, tip pool, tip and catering calculators do the arithmetic on the numbers you type. They are planning aids, not accounting, tax or legal advice.

Tools in this group

  • Catering Calculator — Enter the guest count and, for each item, the servings per guest and your cost per serving; you get servings to prepare, food cost, the price per guest for your target food cost and the staff needed.
  • How Much Does a Food Truck Cost? Startup Cost Worksheet — Type what you expect to pay for the truck, equipment, permits and the monthly running costs; you get the total to raise and how many months your cash would last.
  • Pour Cost Calculator — Enter the bottle size, what you paid, your pour size and a menu price; you get pours per bottle, cost per pour, the pour cost percentage and the price that reaches a target.
  • Restaurant Budget Template — Enter the month's sales, food and drink cost percentage, labor percentage, occupancy and other costs; you get prime cost, profit and a P&L table to print or download as CSV.
  • Restaurant Labor Cost Calculator — List each position with its hours and hourly wage, type your payroll burden percentage and the period's sales; you get labor cost, labor percentage and sales per labor hour.
  • Restaurant Startup Costs Worksheet — Type your build-out cost per square foot, equipment, licences, opening inventory, pre-opening payroll and monthly costs to get the total to raise and your cash runway.
  • Restaurant Tip Calculator — Enter the bill, the tax and the tip percentage, then how many people share it; you get the tip, the total and what each person pays, plus a table of common percentages.
  • Tip Pool Calculator — Enter the tips collected and each person's hours or points; you get each share to the cent, with the leftover cents handed out by a stated rule so the shares add up exactly.