Use our free profit calculator tool to research and estimate daily, monthly, and yearly sales and costs for soft serve ice cream sales.
In order to find revenue, or total sales potential, you will need to determine what menu items you plan to serve, the serving sizes, and what your estimated daily sales by menu item will be. You should be conservative in your estimates and be careful to research other restaurants in your area. You can poll existing customers or walk by traffic to get an idea of engagement and interest for the idea before moving forward.
Be careful to estimate the daily servings for each menu item. You will enter each menu items selling price and the calculator will provide you total sales per day, and per period which you can enter in the top of the sheet. If you are closed holidays, or certain days of the week, be sure to calculate a reasonable and conservative monthly period, perhaps based on a 22-28 day month in order to get accurate numbers.
In the costs section of our profit calculator you will enter product costs. A good method to calculate the product costs is find out what the finished product cost is and divide it by the total number of ounces in the bag or container. All soft serve machines will actually yield a higher volume of product than you put in, this is called overrun – the second tab of the calculator has a sheet which can be used to determine overrun and actual yields. Keep in mind that you will inevitably have waste, which is not accounted for in our sheet. Other costs to consider are electricity, labor, and storage costs. These will be unique to your operation but should be included in your decision.