Calculators
Food truck profit calculator
Work out what a service day actually leaves you, once food, crew, card fees and site costs come out of the sales.
Free to use, and no account needed.
What the day kept
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Enter what the day sold and what it cost, and this will work out what you kept.
This is an estimate, and it is only as good as what you type into it. It uses the figures on this page and nothing else — it does not know what your week was really like, and nothing you enter here is saved or sent anywhere.
What this counts
One service day. What came in, minus what that day cost you to run — food, the crew, the card processor’s share, the pitch, and the propane and supplies that go with it. What is left is what the day actually kept.
It deliberately does not count the costs that happen whether you trade or not: insurance, a vehicle or unit payment, your commissary’s monthly fee. Those matter, they are not what a single day earned or lost, and mixing them in makes a good day look like a bad one.
Where the numbers come from
From you. Every figure on this page is one you typed, and the result is only as good as what you type — there are no assumptions filled in behind it and no averages applied to it, because we do not have data that would make either of those honest.
The card fee is the one figure worked out rather than entered: processors take a share of what went through the card, so it is that percentage of the day’s sales. The result shows the working.
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Everything on this page works from figures you type in, and it is yours to use as often as you like without telling us anything. What it cannot do is know how your week actually went. That is the part an account is for.
- It works from the days you recorded, not from figures typed in for one question.
- It keeps the answer current as your sales, crew pay and costs change.
- Connect Square or Clover, or write the day down yourself — both reach the same result.
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