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Restaurant & Hospitality Marketing Calculators

For restaurants, cafés, bars, and venues. Find the revenue you're leaving on the table and what each fix is worth. Results update as you type. No email required.

Seat capacity gap

Compare what your dining room could bring in against what it actually does, and see how big the marketing opportunity is.

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Revenue gap to target (per week)

Seat capacity per week (covers)
Current occupancy
Full-capacity revenue per week
Actual revenue per week
Covers to reach target occupancy
Revenue gap per year
Profit in that gap per year
Each additional cover per day is worth (yearly)

Loyalty program breakeven

Rewards cost money. Find out whether the extra visits a loyalty program drives are worth more than the rewards you give away.

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Net gain per year

Extra visits per year
Added revenue from extra visits and bigger checks
Added contribution margin
Reward cost (after breakage)
Program cost
Breakeven visit lift needed
Net gain per member

Third-party delivery commission

App commissions can wipe out the margin on an order. See what you're paying and what shifting orders to direct ordering would save.

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Direct ordering scenario
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Net savings per month from direct ordering

Third-party gross sales per month
Commission and fees paid per month
Commission paid per year
Profit per third-party order
Profit per direct order
Orders shifted per month
Net savings per year
Orders needed to cover the direct platform cost

Slow-night promo calculator

Discounts bring people in, but they also cut the margin on guests who would have come anyway. See whether a promo actually makes money.

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Net profit change per night

Covers with promo
Profit tonight without promo
Profit tonight with promo
Margin given away to existing guests
Future value of returning new guests (per night)
Net including return visits (per night)
Monthly impact
Lift needed to break even (night only)

Google Business Profile value

Your free Google listing probably drives more revenue than any ad you run. Use the numbers from your profile's Performance report to put a dollar value on it.

How often each action becomes a visit
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Monthly revenue from your Google listing

Total actions per month
View-to-action rate
Visits attributed to the listing
Guests served
Annual revenue from the listing
Each 100 extra profile views is worth
Reaching 4.6 stars would add (monthly)

Catering & private event upsell

Events and catering are high-ticket, high-margin revenue that most restaurants under-promote. Estimate what a real events program would add.

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With an events push
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Added event revenue per year

Bookings per month now
Event revenue per year now
Bookings per month with the push
Bookings lost to capacity
Added contribution margin per year
Net after cost per year
Lifetime value of one event client
Value of simply answering every inquiry (yearly)

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