Health check
Is your busy venue actually a profitable one?
Enter three numbers from a recent week or month. We'll show your prime cost against where healthy venues sit, and the levers most likely to be leaking margin for your format. It takes a minute and costs nothing.
Format
Enter at least a sales figure to see your read.
Your prime-cost read will appear here.
Prime cost — food, beverage and labour as a share of sales — is the single number that tells you whether a busy venue is actually a profitable one.
Prime cost — food, beverage and labour as a share of sales — is the one number that tells you whether the room is paying for itself.
A venue holding prime cost near sixty percent is healthy. One drifting past seventy is buying volume with its own margin. The tools above show you where you stand and where to look first.