Pop-Up Numbers · by Seafood Mafia

Will your pop-up actually make money?

See your break-even, what each seat really adds, and what your time is worth — before tickets go on sale. Fill in the night as you'd actually run it; the ticket updates as you type. Defaults are a real class: 6 seats, $195, a whole wild sockeye each. No signup required.

The room

Seats you can sell Ticket price $ Comped seats (friends, press) Sold so far (optional) Sales tax rate %

Ticket and add-on prices include sales tax — take it off the top (if you're registered, that money was never yours)

Any of those sold below full price — coupon, friend rate, early bird? They count inside "sold so far." Forecast rows assume full price.

Seats Paid each$ Seats Paid each$

Per head

Everything you buy because one more person is coming — ingredients, packaging, anything they leave with.

Food cost per head $

Fixed for the night

Paid whether 2 people show up or 20.

Venue $ Staff / helpers $ Childcare $ Travel (fuel, parking, hotel) $ Samples & demo (food you serve but don't sell) $ Marketing / ads $ Gear bought for this event $ Platform / ticketing fee % Card processing, if charged separately %

Tableside charges 6.6% all-in — card processing is included, so leave the second box at 0. Eventbrite, Square and most others bill the platform fee and the card fee separately; enter both. Fold any per-ticket cents into the percentage.

Anything else — name it so you remember it next time.

$ $ $

Add-ons

Expect to buy = the share of guests you think will say yes — drives the forecast rows. Guess low. Bought so far = how many actually did — drives the "so far" row.

Add-on Price$ Cost$ Expect to buy% Bought so far

Your time

Planning, shopping, prep, the event, cleanup — everyone working it, added up.

Total hours What you'd pay someone to do it $

Count my time as a cost

Order up6 seats · $195

Seats to break even

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Sold	Revenue	Profit	$/hr

Profit = revenue − platform & card fees − food − the night's fixed costs. Before your own time unless you tick it. Before income tax. After sales tax only if you tick that. Forecast rows assume full price; "so far" uses what people actually paid. General overhead (insurance, your car, your phone) isn't in here.

Per paying head after food & fees — ticket only
Per paying head after food & fees — with add-ons
Food, sold out
Food as it stands
Discounts given so far
Fixed costs for the night

Price it

A price the room won't pay isn't a price. If these sit above what your guests will pay, the levers are costs, capacity and add-ons — not the ticket.

What people forget

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