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Coffee, juices and drinks
How to work out the cost per cup of coffee, fresh juice and lemonade, add cups, ice, waste and your time, and give each drink a price that hits your margin.
Read the guide: How to price drinks: coffee, juice and batch drinks
- How to price drinks: coffee, juice and batch drinksHow to work out the cost per cup of coffee, fresh juice and lemonade, add cups, ice, waste and your time, and give each drink a price that hits your margin.→
- What a cup of coffee costs to makeHow to work out the real cost of an espresso, a latte and a filter coffee: grams per shot, milk, cup and lid, the machine, waste and your time.→
- Fresh juice: fruit yield and cost per glassHow to measure how much juice each kilo of fruit gives you, work out the cost per glass with sugar, ice and cup, and what to do when fruit prices jump.→
- Batch drinks: cost per litre and per cupHow to cost a batch of lemonade, iced tea or agua fresca: what it yields after straining, the cost per litre you actually sell, and the cost per cup size.→
- Smoothie bowl cost: pricing acai bowls and toppingsWork out the real cost of a smoothie or acai bowl: base, fruit, toppings and bowl, plus what the free toppings customers add are actually costing you.→
- Cups, lids, straws and ice: the drink costs you forgetWork out what the cup, lid, straw and ice cost per drink at each size, and how much margin they quietly take from cheap drinks like iced tea and lemonade.→
- Pour cost: how to cost cocktails and spiritsWork out the cost per measure of a bottle, the cost and pour cost of each cocktail, and what over-pouring and spillage really cost you each month.→
- Cost per bottle for drinks you make: bottles and labelsWork out the cost per bottle of a cold brew or juice you bottle yourself: liquid, bottle, cap, label, filling loss and bottles that expire before they sell.→
- Reselling soda and water: what margin makes senseWork out the real cost of cans and bottled water you resell, including fridge power and losses, and how to price them next to the food you make yourself.→
- Coffee shop break-even: how many cups a dayWork out how many cups a day your coffee shop must sell to cover its costs: fixed costs per day, contribution per average drink and food sales.→
What does it really cost you?
Put your recipe into the free calculator: ingredients, packaging, your time and the gas. You get the cost per unit and your margin in two minutes, no account needed.