Is your food truck actually profitable? Enter 5 numbers and instantly get your revenue, gross margin and net profit — monthly and yearly.
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Average amount per customer
Customers served per day
22 days = typical week
Raw material cost (28–35% typical)
Lease, insurance, fuel, subscriptions…
Revenue
€15,840
/ month
€190,080
/ year
Gross margin
€10,771(68%)
after food cost, / month
Net profit
€8,271
/ month (52%)
€99,254
/ year
Break-even: 14 tickets/day.
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Food truck profitability boils down to a simple equation: money in minus money out. The calculator runs two steps:
Revenue
Average ticket × tickets/day × service days. E.g. €12 × 60 × 22 = €15,840/month.
Gross margin
Subtract food cost (raw ingredients). At 32% food cost, 68% of revenue remains, i.e. ~€10,771.
Net profit
Then subtract fixed costs (lease, insurance, subscriptions…). €10,771 − €2,500 = €8,271 monthly net profit.
Want to go further? To know the exact number of tickets you need to sell every day to break even, use our break-even calculator.
Food truck profitability is calculated by subtracting all costs (food cost + fixed costs) from revenue. Formula: Net profit = (Revenue × (1 − food cost %)) − fixed monthly costs. Our calculator runs this automatically from your average ticket, tickets/day, food cost and fixed costs.
A food truck owner typically makes between €1,500 and €3,500 net per month after costs and taxes, with high variability depending on season, location and specialty. Premium or very well-located trucks (events, markets, office zones) can exceed €5,000 net/month in peak season.
A healthy net margin for a food truck sits between 10% and 20% of revenue. Below 10%, the business is fragile (one bad weather month can flip it). Above 20% is excellent and usually signals a strong average ticket and tight cost control.
No, it calculates net profit before taxes. Add your social charges (around 22% of profit for a French micro-entrepreneur, ~45% for an EURL under corporate tax) to the "fixed monthly costs" input if you want a post-charges estimate.
FoodTracks calculates your margin in real time from sales (connected to SumUp), stock and purchase costs. You see every evening whether the service was profitable, broken down by location. AI predictions avoid waste and stockouts, which directly improves margin.
FoodTracks calculates your margin in real time from sales, stock and purchase costs — every night, you know exactly how much you made.
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