Axe Throwing Bar Profit Calculator — monthly profit, payback and break-even fill

1. Bar and sessions

Throwers per session (capacity)

Sessions per day

Open days per week

Average fill (% of thrower slots sold)

Ticket price ($ per thrower)

Food and drink spend per visit ($)

Food and drink cost (%)

2. Parties and leagues

Private events a month

Party package price ($)

Cost per party: food, host, supplies ($)

League players

Monthly league player fee ($)

3. Monthly costs

Coaches and bar staff on duty while open

Staff hourly wage ($)

Payroll tax and workers comp (%)

Monthly rent ($)

Monthly utilities ($)

Monthly insurance ($)

Software, marketing and other fixed costs a month ($)

Card and booking fees (%)

Equipment repair and replacement reserve (% of revenue)

4. The build and any loan

Lanes, targets and axes ($)

Fit-out: cages, bar, event lanes, desk ($)

Margin you want (%)

Share of the build financed (%)

Loan interest rate (% a year)

Loan term (months)

Payback you want (months)

Fill in the numbers, then click Check this bar.

Result

Line	Per month

If attendance comes in under plan

Attendance	Fill	Profit a month	Profit a year	Payback (months)

5. Compare with a second scenario

Scenario A is everything above. Scenario B keeps your sessions, staff, rent and costs, and changes only the capacity, ticket, fill, parties and league players below. The build cost stays the same, so compare scenarios that fit the same building.

Scenario B: throwers per session

Scenario B: ticket price ($)

Scenario B: average fill (%)

Scenario B: parties a month

Scenario B: party package price ($)

Scenario B: league players

Scenario B: monthly league player fee ($)

How it is built

Slots: thrower slots a month = throwers per session × sessions × open days × 52 ÷ 12. Visits = slots × average fill. Revenue: visits × (ticket + food and drink spend), plus parties × package price, plus league players × monthly fee. Costs: food and drink cost, party cost, card fees and the repair reserve as a share of revenue, coaches and bar staff (1.75 hours door to door per session), rent, utilities, insurance and other fixed costs, and any loan payment.

Payback: build cost ÷ monthly profit before the loan payment. Lowest ticket: the price at which margin equals your target, and the price at which payback equals your target; typing either back reproduces the target. Sensitivity: the same bar with attendance cut by 10% and 20% (parties and league players held). Break-even fill: profit is exactly linear in attendance, so it is solved exactly.

Common questions

How much does it cost to open an axe throwing bar?

Plan on tens of thousands of dollars for lanes, targets and axes, and often more for the fit-out: a bar or counter, safety netting and cages, flooring, event lanes and a front desk, in a leased space of a few thousand square feet. Enter your own quotes for both and the calculator adds them into one build cost and divides it by monthly operating profit to give a payback.

What fill rate does an axe throwing bar need to break even?

It depends on rent, staff and ticket price, so the calculator solves it: it scales attendance up or down until monthly profit is exactly zero and reports that as a percentage of all thrower slots. Private events and leagues pay for part of the fixed costs before a single walk-in buys a ticket, so the break-even fill is lower than most owners guess.

How much of an axe throwing bar's income comes from private events?

Often a fifth to a third of revenue, and the most reliable part because corporate and group bookings are made in advance. The calculator counts private events as a flat package price minus the food, host and supplies each one costs, and warns when they are over a third of revenue, because event income is capped by your event lanes and weekend hours.

What ticket price do I need to reach my target margin?

The calculator solves for the ticket that makes margin equal your target and shows it, next to the ticket that reaches your payback target. The test suite checks that charging exactly those prices earns the target for hundreds of random bars.

Is my data uploaded, and is this financial advice?

Nothing is uploaded: it runs in your browser with no accounts. It is arithmetic on the numbers you type, not tax, legal, lending or financial advice. Lease terms, liquor licences, waivers, insurance and safety rules depend on where you operate.