A day at the café

The Corner Café's expected weekday, hour by hour. Each cup is five customers. Illustrative.

7:00

customers so far

£0

on the till

£0.00

average spend

Doors open. The first thirty want coffee and something warm, to go.

Scenario:

Now build your own

Move the sliders. The page builds your week and year, takes the VAT off, checks the lunch ceiling, and re-runs the Chapter 2 rent test.

Customers a day: 120 Average spend: £6.85 Weekday-equivalents a week: 6.8 Cold takeaway food share (zero-rated): 15% Seats: 40 Lunch dwell time, minutes: 40 Rates + service charge + insurance a year (from Chapter 2)£7,826

£5,593

takings a week

£290,836

takings a year

£249,634

sales net of VAT, what you keep

£22,130

maximum rent on the 12% all-in test (Chapter 2)

Lunch: 45 of 150 seated covers possible. Demand is the limit, not chairs.

Dayparts, spends, dwell time and the cold-takeaway share are assumptions in the book, labelled as such. VAT at 20% on eat-in, hot takeaway and always-standard items; cold takeaway food zero-rated (HMRC Notice 709/1). The 12% all-in test is the book's judgement. Nothing here is advice about a particular site. Respects your reduced-motion setting.