Enter monthly sales, or seats and average check, and see the base rent a bakery can afford at 8% to 10% of sales, the healthy occupancy share for bakeries.
Rent you can afford$3,600- to $4,800a month in base rent
At a healthy 8% to 10% occupancy share for a café or bakery, after $1,200 a month in other charges.
Monthly sales used
$60,000
As entered
Rent plus charges
$4,800- to $6,000
8% to 10% of sales
Base rent to sales
6%- to 8%
Rent alone, before charges
Rent you can afford at each share
$3,000$3K7%outside
$3,600$3.6K8%healthy
$4,200$4.2K9%healthy
$4,800$4.8K10%healthy
$5,400$5.4K11%outside
Blue columns are the healthy 8% to 10% band for a café or bakery. Base rent after other charges, to the nearest $50.
The bakery check reads public records at an address: who lives and works nearby, the bakeries already there and the traffic on its road. Check an address for a bakery.
How the math works
Rent you can afford = monthly sales × healthy occupancy share, minus other monthly charges
Healthy occupancy share for bakeries
Rent plus CAM, property taxes and insurance at 8% to 10% of sales, the same band DoorWorthy reports use for bakeries. Every type's band:
Healthy occupancy share by business type
Business type
Healthy share of sales
Café or bakery
8% to 10%
Restaurant or bar
6% to 10%
Salon or personal services
10% to 15%
Retail store
8% to 12%
Fitness or wellness
10% to 15%
Another concept
8% to 12%
Sales from seats
Full capacity is seats × turns a day × average check × days open. The calculator plans at 75% of it, the same planning case DoorWorthy reports use.
Not included
Payroll, supplies, loan payments and build-out. This is a planning estimate for a lease conversation, not a sales or profit forecast.
DoorWorthy reports run this same calculation for a real address, next to the spending, competition and rules found there.
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DoorWorthy plans with total occupancy cost, meaning base rent plus CAM, property taxes and insurance, at 8% to 10% of sales for bakeries. Treat the top of the band as a ceiling to stay under.
At 8% to 10% of sales, the whole occupancy cost would sit between 1,600 and 2,000 dollars a month, before CAM, taxes and insurance are taken out of it. Enter your own sales above for the exact figure.
DoorWorthy plans with total occupancy cost, meaning base rent plus CAM, property taxes and insurance, at 6% to 10% of sales for restaurants and bars. Restaurant industry figures put the typical share near 5% to 6%, so treat the top of the band as a ceiling to stay under, not a target.
It depends on the business. DoorWorthy's healthy bands for rent plus charges are 8% to 10% for cafés and bakeries, 6% to 10% for restaurants and bars, 10% to 15% for salons and personal services, 8% to 12% for retail stores and 10% to 15% for fitness and wellness studios. Base rent alone should sit lower, because CAM, taxes and insurance come out of the same share.
Start from sales if you have a projection you trust, such as a lender's model or the numbers from a location you already run. Start from seats if you are earlier: the calculator works out full capacity from seats, turns, average check and days open, then plans at 75% of it so slow days are already counted.
No. It means the rent fits a common planning range for the sales you entered. Whether a particular address can produce those sales is a separate question about customers, competition and what the rules allow there. A free location check is a place to start on that.
