Calculate your restaurant's annual losses from food variance, waste, family meals, fryer oil, and utility inefficiencies
💡 How This Works: Enter your restaurant's monthly food sales and operational costs. The calculator will show you exactly how much money you're losing annually to back-of-house inefficiencies and help you identify opportunities for savings.
Inputs & Assumptions
Enter monthly total food sales
Industry avg: 28–35%
Enter current %
Default: 2–5% typical range
Default: $12–15/head
Usually 5 staff
How many family meals per month
Weekly oil cost
40% longer life with filtration
Water + power + chemicals
10% waste from inefficiency
Calculated Outputs
Metric
Value
Ideal Food Cost ($)
$0
Actual Food Cost ($)
$0
Food Variance ($)
$0
Annual Food Variance ($)
$0
Annual Waste Loss ($)
$0
Annual Family Meal Cost ($)
$0
Annual Fryer Oil Savings ($)
$0
Annual Utility Waste ($)
$0
You're losing about:
$0
per year in Back of House inefficiencies (food variance, waste, oil, utilities, meals).