MILE HIGH FOOD TRUCK PROFIT LAB

Is Your Next Booking Worth It?

Take one minute to see if the numbers add up for your next brewery, festival, or neighborhood stop. Get the quick analysis to see if the next opportunity can pay off and be worth your time.

Check Your Next Booking

Illustration of a food truck ready for its next booking

YOUR BEST CURRENT ESTIMATE

Tell us about your booking.

One of the biggest challenges of running a food truck is knowing whether the next booking is worth it. This Quick Check helps you compare the opportunity with your profit and owner-pay goals before you commit.

Select Booking Type To Get Started

Each booking type has preset values but you can adjust based on your business or start from scratch with the custom option.

Expected transactions

orders

Average transaction

Service hours

hours

Event participation fee

Food cost

% of sales

Other event cash costsCombine labor, travel, fuel, packaging, and other known cash costs.

Owner total hours

hours

Desired Earnings Per Owner Hour

$/ hour

This festival, premium event or high-risk booking quick check uses a $500.00 profit-after-owner-pay target and a 10% margin target.

WORTH A CLOSER LOOKREVIEW

The shift may work, but one or more profit goals are missed.

240 expected orders produce about $4,800.00 in sales, rated good for this booking type.

Cash left

$860.00

After the cash costs entered aboveTarget: $0 or more

Your earnings per hour

$53.75

Across all owner hoursTarget: $35.00 per hour

Profit after paying yourself

$300.00

After your desired hourly earningsTarget: $500.00 or more

What would make this a Go? One possible path is about 15 additional orders at the current price and cost structure. Other possible paths may include increasing the average transaction, adding a profitable bundle, reducing total hours or waste, improving event terms, or combining several smaller changes.

WHAT THIS MAY BE TELLING YOU

What This May Be Telling You About Your Business

The expected order volume is reasonable for this opportunity. At an average transaction of $20.00, improving the value of each order may be more realistic than relying only on substantially more customers.

YOUR STRONGEST PROFIT OPPORTUNITY

Make Each Order More Valuable

A profitable combo, beverage, side, dessert, premium option, or relevant add-on could help when price, cost, service time, and customer acceptance work together.

Question to consider: Does your current menu make the most profitable next purchase easy and obvious?

FROM ONE EVENT TO A MORE PROFITABLE TRUCK

From One Event to a More Profitable Truck

This opportunity is close. One or two targeted changes may determine whether it becomes worth your time.This Quick Check shows whether this opportunity is likely to work with your current assumptions. It may also point to a larger opportunity in your pricing, menu, food costs, bundles, preparation, or event selection.Inside the Mile High Food Truck Profit Lab, you will use your own business numbers to identify practical changes that can improve the profit from future events and everyday locations.

Protect your food and menu margins
Increase the value of each order
Reduce waste and hidden operating costs
Make better event and location decisions

This Quick Profit Check helps you evaluate one event. The Mile High Food Truck Profit Lab helps you improve the numbers behind future events and find more profits every month.

Explore the Profit Lab See what is included and decide whether it is a good fit for your truck.