Free tool
What that gig actually made.
Your numbers
What you actually paid, including yourself if you pay yourself.
There and back, plus the gas you burned trading.
Hire, permits, cleaning, a breakage.
What that means
What the day made
From your numbers$1,710
Takings less every cost you entered.
Margin
From your numbers40.7%
Total costs
From your numbers$2,490
Why it says that
Which half of the answer we actually know
Most calculators present everything they show you as a fact, including the parts they guessed. This one marks them.
From your numbers
Arithmetic on figures you typed. Nothing of ours is in it, so it is allowed to look certain — because it is.
Includes an assumption
A default of ours is in the sum. It is named, it is amber, and the working says what it is worth. Replace it and the number becomes yours.
This is how CaterCloud treats every number it works out, not a flourish for this page. An estimate that looks like an observation is a number you would quote a customer from.
Questions
What people ask
- How much does a food truck make per event?
- Nobody can answer that for you, and a page that offers a figure is inventing it. What decides it is your takings against your pitch fee, food, crew and fuel — which is what this works out.
- What costs do people forget?
- Fuel both ways and the gas burned trading; the pitch fee when it is a percentage rather than flat; your own hours if you pay yourself; and the prep done the day before.
- Is this profit or is it takings?
- Profit for the day, on the costs you entered. It is not your month — the van payment, insurance, registration and commissary rent are overheads and are not in it.
- Why does it warn me about zeros?
- A cost left at zero is not a cost of nothing, it is a cost nobody entered. Totalling as though it were free is how a losing gig looks profitable.