Free restaurant tool
Restaurant Break-Even Calculator (UAE)
See how many covers your UAE restaurant needs to break even. Enter monthly fixed costs, your average ticket and your food cost percentage to get the covers needed per month and per trading day.
How to use it
- Enter monthly fixed costs such as rent, salaries and licences.
- Enter the average customer ticket and current food-cost percentage.
- Read the covers needed per month and per trading day.
Daily figure assumes 30 trading days; adjust for your actual opening days.
What the result means
Break-even is covers, not a date
Each cover pays its ticket minus the food it used. That remainder is its contribution. Once enough covers have paid your fixed costs for the month, every further cover is profit. The daily figure assumes 30 trading days, so adjust it if you close one day a week.
How TajerGo tracks this automatically
See each day’s sales against your costs.
The owner dashboard shows sales, gross profit and estimated net for the period, so you can check the day against your break-even covers.
- Sales and gross profit update as orders close
- Estimated net sits beside khata outstanding
- Low-stock items are listed under Needs attention
Questions
Common questions
The calculator divides your monthly fixed costs by the contribution each cover leaves. Contribution per cover = average ticket × (1 − food cost %). Break-even covers per month = fixed costs ÷ contribution per cover, and the daily figure divides that by 30 trading days.
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