Lumière Nail Bar Business Plan — Key Performance Indicators

The utilisation, membership churn, average ticket and retail attachment indicators reported weekly, with targets for each.

Key Performance Indicators

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The following are the operating measures on which this business should be managed. Four of them — utilisation by station and by hour, membership joins and churn, retail attachment, and rebooking rate at departure — are reported weekly rather than monthly.

Indicator

Definition

Target

Why it matters

Utilisation by station and by hour of day

Booked hours divided by sellable hours, measured per station and per hour

70% nail, 57% room by Year 5

The single operating number that matters most. Capacity is fixed and the unsold hour is gone

Membership joins and churn

Members added and lost each month against the base

780 by Year 5

The largest lever in the model. Below 258 members the business does not repay its start-up losses

Retail attachment

Retail revenue divided by treatment revenue

16% by Year 5, or 15.1% against total service revenue

A genuine profit line and a retention tool, but the smallest lever of the six tested

Rebooking rate at departure

Clients leaving with a next appointment divided by clients served

Monitored weekly

The leading indicator of every other number. A client who leaves without a next appointment must be won again

Realised rate per treatment hour

Treatment revenue divided by treatment hours

About R312

Protects against discounting the menu to fill quiet hours

Membership redemption rate

Included treatments taken divided by treatments due

High and rising

Breakage is what is left over, not what is aimed at. High redemption produces retention and referral

Revenue per station

Revenue divided by nail stations plus treatment rooms

R907333 by Year 5

The number to benchmark any second site against

Deferred prepaid liability

Unredeemed prepaid value held on the balance sheet

Tracked monthly

Prepaid vouchers remain valid for three years under the Consumer Protection Act. It is a liability before it is income

Therapist retention

Therapists retained over twelve months

Tracked by role

The client book is the asset and it is the thing most likely to walk out

Debt service cover

EBITDA divided by interest and capital

Above 1.30x from Year 2

No principal falls in Year 1 under the twelve-month moratorium