f&b minimum calculator
Set a food-and-beverage minimum that protects your margin instead of guessing at a round number.
Free. No sign-up. Your numbers stay yours.why this matters
A food-and-beverage minimum is the floor you ask a private-event host to spend to hold the space. Get it right and an event night earns more than the regular service it replaces, with margin to spare. The number that works backs out from three things: what the room normally earns in that slot, your food and beverage cost, and the labor the event actually takes.
This calculator runs that math for you and shows the minimum by day and by event format, so a Tuesday lunch and a Saturday buyout each get a number you can defend. Set it once per space and per daypart, hold to it, and every booking clears a real margin.
the calculator sets the number. sway makes sure it fills the calendar.