Free costing calculators for every trade

36 free tools. Each one shows its formula and ends with a verdict and what doing nothing costs you a year. Canadian dollars, before GST/HST. Nothing leaves your browser. From ChickenPieces, bulk foodservice supply across Canada.

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Restaurants

Restaurants page

Plate Cost Calculator

Add ingredients, set your target food cost percentage, and get the menu price that protects your margin.

Labor + Prime Cost Calculator

Food cost plus labor cost against revenue. See your prime cost and whether it is under the 60% benchmark.

What Is It Costing You?

Food cost drift, hours costing by hand and never-costed menu items, turned into one yearly number. Drag the sliders to what you believe.

Delivery App Breakeven

What a delivery-app order really earns after commission and packaging, and the markup that matches your in-house margin.

Tip Pool Splitter

Split a shift's tips fairly by hours and role points. Every person's share and their tips per hour.

Bars

Cocktail Pour Cost Calculator

Bottle cost, pour size, garnish, and target pour cost in. Cost per drink, menu price, and margin out.

Keg Cost Per Pint

Keg cost and size, pour size and waste in. Cost per pour, pours per keg, pour cost % and profit per keg out.

Happy Hour Margin Calculator

Regular price, happy hour price, pour cost and the uplift you really get. Profit per happy hour against a normal hour.

Bar Par Levels & Order Sheet

Weekly usage, delivery cycle, lead time and safety stock. Par per product, what to order today, and what is sitting above par.

Bottle Service Minimum Spend

What the table earns on a normal night, dedicated service and mixers, with a premium. The minimum spend in whole bottles.

Menu Engineering Calculator

Sales and margin per drink. Stars, plowhorses, puzzles and dogs on your drink list, with what to do about each.

Cafés & bakeries

Cafés & bakeries page

Coffee Cost per Cup

Beans, milk, cup and extras with waste, against the menu price. Cost per cup, cost %, and the price at your target.

Milk Waste Calculator

Litres bought against litres that reached a cup. What goes down the sink every week and every year.

Ice Cream Cost per Serving

Tub cost, overrun and scoop size, then the cone or cup at ChickenPieces case prices, topping and extras. Cost per scoop and the price at your target.

Custom Cake Price Calculator

Ingredients, baking and decorating hours at your rate, packaging, overhead and profit. The price, per serving, and your real hourly.

Food Truck Festival: Worth It?

Pitch fee, organiser's cut, expected covers, food cost, staff and fuel against the profit you need. TAKE, NEGOTIATE or PASS.

Hotels & stays

Hotels & stays page

RevPAR & ADR Calculator

Rooms available, rooms sold, room revenue. Occupancy, ADR and RevPAR out, with the rate you need to hit target.

Housekeeping Staffing

How many housekeepers tonight needs, how many minutes each room actually gets, and what an occupied room costs you.

OTA Commission Calculator

What Booking.com, Expedia or Airbnb really take from a booking, against the same guest booking direct.

Room Block Pricing Calculator

Wedding and group blocks: block rate, comp rooms, attrition, and what the block is actually worth after cleaning.

Breakfast Cost per Guest

Every item a guest takes, waste, and staff minutes. True cost per guest against the allowance in your rate.

Airbnb Break-even Calculator

Nightly rate, platform fee, turnover cost and fixed costs. Nights per month you must book before the listing earns anything.

Amenity Cost per Stay

Shampoo, soap, coffee pods, water, snacks. Case price and units in the case, out comes the cost per stay and per year.

Weddings & events

Weddings & events page

Wedding Package Quote

Food, bar, venue, staff, rentals and your hours, at a target margin. The quote and the per-head number the couple hears.

Catering Per-Head Quote

Guests, food per head, staff hours, rentals and travel in. A quote per head that protects your margin out.

Wedding & Event Margin Calculator

Client budget, vendor costs, labor, and overhead in. True cost, planner margin, and per-guest cost out.

Buffet vs Plated Calculator

Same guests, both service styles: food with waste, servers by ratio, equipment. Which is cheaper and by how much.

Event Server Staffing Calculator

Servers, bartenders and captains for the guest count and service style, the labour bill, and whether what you bill covers it.

Open Bar Buy List

Guest count and hours in. A beer, wine, and spirits shopping list with buffer out.

Rentals Markup Calculator

Chairs, tables, linens at vendor cost, your markup, delivery and damage waiver passed through. Client price and whether it pays for your time.

Wedding Photography Package Price

Shooting hours, editing hours, second shooter, gear, album and travel at the rate you need. The price, and your real hourly at the asked price.

DJ Gig Price: Take, Negotiate or Pass

Hours door to door, travel, gear and licensing against the fee on offer. TAKE, NEGOTIATE with a counter, or PASS.

Trucking

Load Decision Calculator

Load rate, km, deadhead, and your cost per km in. TAKE, NEGOTIATE, or PASS with a suggested counter rate out.

Owner-Operator Cost Per Km Calculator

Fuel, insurance, truck payment, maintenance, and fixed costs converted to a single cost per km (or per mile) and breakeven rate.

Fuel Surcharge Calculator

Base diesel price in the contract, diesel this week, your L/100km. Fair surcharge per km and for the load, against the broker's.

IFTA Estimator

Km and litres by province or state with the tax rate. Fuel used, tax owed, tax paid at the pump and the net bill or credit.