Streetfire Kitchens Business Plan — Break-Even and Debt Service

Break-even at 100 covers per service on three trucks, falling to 83 on five, and debt service through three loss-making years.

Break-Even and Debt Service

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  • 8.1 Break-even
  • 8.2 Debt service

8.1 Break-even

Break-even expressed in covers per service, by fleet size
Figure 18. Break-even expressed in covers per service, by fleet size.

Break-even measure

Value

Interpretation

Contribution per truck-day

R3 704

Blended across the three service types at the mid-plan mix

Fixed cash costs at three trucks

R2 617 239

Central overhead plus per-truck ownership costs

Break-even truck-days

707

2.66 trucks fully utilised

Break-even covers per service, three trucks

100

Against a plan of 106.6 — headroom 6.2%

Break-even covers per service, four trucks

89

Headroom widens to 16.5%

Break-even covers per service, five trucks

83

Headroom widens to 22.1%

Five-truck capacity

1 330 truck-days

At full utilisation

Margin of safety at five trucks

46.8%

How far volume can fall before losses

Fleet size

Truck-days available

Fixed cash costs (R)

Break-even covers per service

Headroom

3 trucks

798

2 617 239

100

6.2%

4 trucks

1 064

2 751 239

89

16.5%

5 trucks

1 330

2 885 239

83

22.1%

Two ways of stating the same thing. In fleet terms the business needs about 2.7 trucks trading at full utilisation to cover its overhead. In operational terms, at the three-truck launch configuration it needs the average truck to serve 100 people per service against a plan of 107 — headroom of only 6.2 per cent. The second is the number to put on the wall, because it is the one a truck manager can influence on any given day.

8.2 Debt service

Debt service cover
Figure 19. Debt service cover.

R

Year 1

Year 2

Year 3

Year 4

Year 5

Opening balance

2 137 000

1 813 707

1 445 153

1 431 961

1 277 252

Drawn in the year

— (drawn at close)

479 500

479 500

Interest at 14.00%

299 180

253 919

269 451

267 604

178 815

Capital repaid

323 293

368 554

492 692

634 209

722 997

Total debt service

622 473

622 473

762 143

901 813

901 812

Closing balance

1 813 707

1 445 153

1 431 961

1 277 252

554 255

of which current portion

368 554

492 692

634 209

722 997

0

of which non-current portion

1 445 153

952 461

797 752

554 255

554 255

EBITDA

(1 380 153)

(412 216)

560 057

1 803 341

2 736 480

Debt service cover

-2.22x

-0.66x

0.73x

2.00x

3.03x

Gearing

35.6%

41.0%

45.1%

33.3%

11.2%

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