Lumière Nail Bar Business Plan — Break-Even and Debt Service

The treatment volume needed to cover the cost base, and debt service across the twelve-month capital moratorium.

Break-Even and Debt Service

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  • 10.1 Break-even
  • 10.2 Debt service

10.1 Break-even

Revenue against break-even
Figure 18. Revenue against break-even.

Year 1

Year 2

Year 3

Year 4

Year 5

Gross margin

33.3%

43.4%

45.6%

49.1%

49.9%

Overhead plus debt service, R

2 428 750

3 043 882

3 318 882

3 748 882

3 973 880

Break-even revenue including debt service, R

7 293 544

7 013 553

7 278 250

7 635 198

7 963 687

Planned revenue, R

4 222 000

7 626 000

9 306 000

12 643 000

13 610 000

Break-even as a share of planned revenue

172.8%

92.0%

78.2%

60.4%

58.5%

Equivalent nail utilisation at break-even

76.0%

51.5%

49.3%

40.5%

41.0%

Headroom, R

(3 071 544)

612 447

2 027 750

5 007 802

5 646 313

Break-even is crossed during Year 2, when planned revenue of R7.63 million clears a break-even of R7.02 million. By Year 5 break-even sits at 58.5 per cent of planned revenue — a margin of safety of R5.65 million, which in operating terms is a nail utilisation of about 41 per cent against a plan of 70 per cent. That is a comfortable margin, and it exists because the membership base carries fixed cost that would otherwise have to be earned hour by hour.

Break-even measure at Year 5

Value

Interpretation

Gross margin

49.9%

Blended across treatments at 52%, retail at 44% and membership at 100%

Break-even revenue including debt service

R7 963 687

Against R13 610 000 planned

Break-even as a share of planned revenue

58.5%

A margin of safety of 41.5 points

Equivalent nail utilisation

41.0%

Against a plan of 70%, holding membership and rate at plan

Break-even membership base

258 members

The threshold at which cumulative five-year profit turns positive

10.2 Debt service

EBITDA, debt service and cover
Figure 19. EBITDA, debt service and cover.

R

Year 1

Year 2

Year 3

Year 4

Year 5

Opening balance

1 300 000

1 300 000

1 034 868

733 280

390 224

Interest at 13.75%

178 750

178 750

142 294

100 826

53 656

Capital repaid

— (moratorium)

265 132

301 588

343 056

390 224

Total debt service

178 750

443 882

443 882

443 882

443 880

Closing balance

1 300 000

1 034 868

733 280

390 224

0

of which current portion

265 132

301 588

343 056

390 224

0

of which non-current portion

1 034 868

733 280

390 224

0

0

EBITDA

(843 000)

708 000

1 367 000

2 907 000

3 259 000

Debt service cover

n/a — EBITDA negative

1.60x

3.08x

6.55x

7.34x

Gearing

50.3%

44.9%

27.4%

9.3%

0.0%

Gearing peaks at 50.2 per cent at the end of Year 2, when the accumulated deficit is deepest and the facility has barely begun to amortise, and falls to nil by Year 5 as the debt is retired.

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