This free commercial kitchen revenue calculator adds up all four. Kitchen time is only the start — equipment, storage and your dining room can each be booked separately, and they earn while you sleep. It takes about a minute.
Your core stream. Renters book a station by the hour, and you set one rate for every station in the listing.
A station is one work area a renter can book on its own — a hot line, a bake bench, a prep table.
$25/hour is a common starting point for a licensed shared kitchen. You can change it any time after you list.
Also lease a station full-time
One tenant, one station, billed monthly instead of hourly.
Estimates only. You set every rate, and nothing is charged until a booking completes.
Four bookables, one listing
Each one is priced on its own and booked on its own. Turn on the ones that fit your space.
A station is one bookable work area. List two or three and the same kitchen can host a baker at 5am, a caterer at noon and a sauce maker on Sunday.
The machines that cost you real money should earn real money. Attach them to a session so the renters who use them cover their wear, power and maintenance.
Dry shelving, refrigerated space, freezer space and a spot to park equipment. You publish how many slots exist and how big they are; renters book slots by the day or by the month.
Seating is a second business. A hall, café or restaurant floor that sits empty four nights a week can host supper clubs, classes and private events instead.
No black box
Kitchen stations
stations × hourly rate × hours a week × 4.33 weeks a month
Equipment
booked kitchen hours × the share that add equipment × the add-on rate
Storage
slots × daily rate × occupancy × 30.4 days a month, per storage type
Dining room
hourly rate × hours a week × 4.33 weeks a month
The fee: Food Web takes 12% of a completed booking. Nothing to list, nothing monthly, nothing when your kitchen sits idle.
What's not in here: your own costs — utilities, cleaning, insurance, and the time you spend hosting. This is revenue, not profit.
Deposits: damage and cleaning deposits are held separately and returned to renters, so they never show up as revenue here.
A worked example
One station at $25/hour booked 20 hours a week, equipment add-ons at $8/hour on 50% of those hours, 20 storage slots at $4/day, and a dining room at $30/hour for 8 hours a week. These are the calculator’s starting values — change any of them above.
| Stream | Per month | Per year |
|---|---|---|
| Kitchen stations | $2,165 | $25,980 |
| Equipment add-ons | $346 | $4,157 |
| Storage slots | $2,432 | $29,184 |
| Dining room | $1,039 | $12,470 |
| Gross revenue | $5,983 | $71,791 |
| Food Web platform fee (12%) | −$718 | −$8,615 |
| You keep (88%) | $5,265 | $63,176 |
Revenue before your own operating costs. Hourly streams use 4.33 weeks a month; storage slots use 30.4 days a month.
How the calculator works, and what it deliberately leaves out
No. Start with kitchen time if that is all you are ready for. Storage is usually the easiest second stream to add — it needs no scheduling and no supervision — and you can turn any of them on later without relisting.
Whatever unit you want to rent: a labelled shelf, a wire rack, a cooler bin, a pallet space. You give the dimensions and how many exist, so renters know exactly what they are booking. Slots can all be the same size or vary with a short description.
It is the best case, and it is what the calculator starts with so you can see the ceiling. Slide occupancy down to 60–70% for a more conservative view. Storage tends to fill steadily and stay full, because moving stock is a hassle renters avoid.
Equipment is priced as an hourly add-on to a kitchen booking, so someone is always in the building while your machine is running. If you would rather have gear stored and picked up, that is equipment storage — billed per slot instead.
It is an estimate of revenue, not profit. It uses the rates and utilization you enter, applies the Food Web platform fee, and leaves out your own costs — utilities, cleaning, insurance, and the time you spend hosting. Security and cleaning deposits are held separately and returned to renters, so they never appear as revenue.
Payments are processed automatically and deposited within 48 hours of each completed booking, with the platform fee already deducted. Listing is free, and there are no monthly charges.
Related
Listing is free and takes about twenty minutes. Add stations, storage and dining as you go — you keep 88% of every dollar.
