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Coffee Shop Break-Even Calculator

See exactly how many transactions and how much revenue your café needs each day to cover fixed costs — before a dollar of profit shows up.

Break-even transactions / month

3,530

Break-even revenue / month

$26,475

Break-even transactions / day

127

Break-even revenue / day

$946

Contribution margin per sale: $5 (average ticket minus variable cost). Every sale above break-even drops this amount straight to operating profit.

The break-even formula, in plain English

Break-even sales = Fixed costs ÷ (Average ticket − Variable cost per sale). The denominator is your contribution margin — the cash each sale puts toward covering rent, payroll and overhead.

Three ways to lower your break-even point

  1. Raise the average ticket. A $0.50 bump on a $7 ticket cuts break-even transactions ~7%.
  2. Drop variable cost %. Tighten waste, recipe portions, and supplier pricing.
  3. Trim fixed costs. Renegotiate software, reduce one over-staffed shift, or sublet a corner.

Stop guessing your break-even number

Coffee Shop Dashboard tracks real ticket size, COGS and labor every day and shows live break-even progress for the month — no formulas, no spreadsheets.

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