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Should You Take That Vending Fee
Put in the fee, your service hours, and your own plate economics to see what a booking actually clears and how many tickets it takes to get to zero.
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Free Calculators for Food Truck Operators
Two working calculators built for people who take money at a window, one about whether a spot pays and one about how many tickets the window can clear.
Most food truck decisions come down to two numbers that owners rarely write down. The first is whether a given day clears its costs once the vendor fee, the propane, the ice, and the crew are paid. The second is how many tickets you can physically hand out in the hours you are open, because that number caps everything above it. Both are easy arithmetic and both get skipped in the middle of a season.
These tools use your own figures, not industry averages. Put in your real average ticket, your real food cost percentage, and the seconds it actually takes to build your most common order, and the results will mean something. Nothing is stored and nothing is sent anywhere. Run a spot, run a menu change, and see the number before you agree to the next event.
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How Many Tickets Your Window Can Actually Clear
Enter your order time, your build time, and how many tickets the kitchen can work at once to see the ceiling on your lunch rush and what the line loses.
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The Vending Spot Vetting Checklist
Twenty checks across four stages for deciding whether a curb or lot is worth your truck before you commit a season to it.
Why These Food Truck Calculators Have No Sign Up
Every owner already runs this arithmetic somewhere. It happens on the back of a prep list at eleven at night, with a vendor fee copied out of an organizer email, a guess at tickets per hour from the last time you worked that lot, and the propane, ice, and second crew member added in the margin. Nobody should have to hand over a phone number to do long division about a curb, so there is no account, no email gate, and nothing kept once you close the tab.
Both numbers are worth having even if you never look at CurbsideDrop again. A break-even ticket count gives you something concrete to say when a festival organizer quotes a flat fee for a six hour window, and it turns a no into a request for longer hours or category exclusivity. A seconds per ticket figure tells you whether the fryer basket or the flat top is capping your lunch rush before you go blaming the location. Write both on the inside of a cabinet door and rerun them after any menu change.
Now Get That Ticket Count Filled
A break-even number only pays off if enough people know which curb the window is parked on today. See how one post before service pushes the spot, the hours, and what is cooking to your text list, your map page, and your captions at once. Fifteen minutes, your own lots, no slide deck.