What should a shared kitchen charge per hour? Free planner

What should your shared kitchen charge?

Enter your monthly costs, how many stations you rent out and for how many hours, your hourly rate and your memberships. You get your profit, the utilization you need to break even, the hourly rate that reaches your goal, what a membership really sells an hour for, and a profit grid across rates and utilization.

Planning arithmetic on your own numbers and stated assumptions.

1. Your kitchen

Rent ($/month)

Utilities ($/month)

Insurance ($/month)

Cleaning and trash ($/month)

Equipment reserve ($/month)

Staff ($/month)

Other ($/month)

Stations (bookable at once)

Open hours per day

Days open per week

Hourly rate ($)

Utilization (% of station-hours used)

Members

Member fee ($/month)

Hours included per member

Card / platform fees (%)

Profit goal ($/month)

Questions people ask

What hourly rate should a shared commissary kitchen charge?

Start from cost, not from the competitor down the road: monthly costs divided by the station-hours you realistically sell. At 45% utilization every used hour has to carry more than twice its share of the rent. This planner shows the break-even rate at your own utilization.

What utilization does a shared kitchen need to break even?

It depends on your rent, rates and memberships. Enter them and the planner solves for the lowest utilization that covers costs, and the one that reaches your profit goal.

Should I sell memberships or hourly time?

Memberships give predictable cash and fill quiet hours, but a member who uses every included hour pays a lower effective rate. The planner shows that effective rate against your hourly rate and your cost per used hour.

Is this business or financial advice?

No. It is arithmetic on the numbers you type in and the assumptions listed on the page. Check the output against your own costs before you change a price.

Not decided

Peak versus off-peak pricing, tenant churn, deposits, permits and health-department rules, seasonal swings, lease escalators, taxes, and what your local competitors charge. The model assumes every used station-hour is sold either as a member hour or at the single hourly rate, and that costs do not change with use.

Splitting a commissary's monthly bill among several trucks instead of pricing it? The commissary kitchen cost split calculator divides pooled rent and utilities by hours booked and storage used. Pricing a booking for a food truck? The food truck event margin calculator.