Loitering — Profitability Calculator

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Loitering. Profitability calculator

Membership venue · monthly P&L · every figure is an editable assumption

Quick rent:

Membership

Monthly dues ($)

Members signed

Seats in the room

Members per seat

Gyms run ~10 because visits are short. Loiterers stay for hours, so 4–6 is safer.

Monthly costs rough estimates

Rent

Steward staffing

~35 hrs/wk part-time incl. payroll costs. Set 0 if you staff it yourself.

Utilities (power, HVAC, water)

Cleaning

Insurance (liability + property)

Access control, billing, internet

Kettle, snacks, supplies

Repairs reserve

Card processing (%)

Side revenue no programming required

Day passes / month

Day pass price ($)

Private after-hours rentals / month

Price per rental ($)

Art sold off the walls / month ($)

Loitering's cut of art sales (%)

Display fee paid by the Fine Art LLC under a consignment agreement.

The room

Sq ft per seat

Occupancy assumed (%)

Seats come from floor area, not wishes: 45 sq ft a seat covers the chair, the room to walk past it, and a share of the back of house. Occupancy is the share of capacity you actually sign.

Startup cash

Security deposit (months of rent)

Buildout & furniture ($)

Legal, LLC, access hardware ($)

Monthly costs

Break-even members

Member capacity

Monthly profit now

Monthly profit by number of members

Hatched area: more members than the room can comfortably hold at your members-per-seat ratio.

What size room, at what rent

Monthly profit for a room of each size at each asking rate, holding everything else where you have it. Floor area sets the seats, the seats set capacity, and capacity times your occupancy sets the members. Click any cell to load it.

Monthly P&L at current members

Levers

“Dues to break even at capacity” is the lowest price that works if the room is full.