Fixed monthly costs
Your floor
Results
Total monthly cost—
Revenue per turn cycle—
Turns/day to break even—
Revenue at your turns—
Monthly profit—
Operating margin—
Headroom above break-even—
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A "turn" here is one wash cycle plus its matched dry cycle. Other revenue is applied against fixed costs before the turn requirement is calculated.
Reading the number
If break-even lands under four turns per day, the store has real room. Between four and five and a half it works but a rent increase or a bad summer hurts. Above five and a half you are relying on a level of traffic that most locations cannot hold seven days a week.
Where owners get this wrong
They average across the whole week. Saturday carries three or four times a Tuesday, so a store averaging four turns is doing seven on Saturday and two on Tuesday. Break-even is a weekly average, but capacity planning has to survive the peak.
The fastest way to move this number is usually not more machines — it is lower utility cost per turn and shorter cycles. The extraction savings calculator quantifies both.
Straight answers
Common questions
Most stores need three to five turns per machine per day to clear fixed costs and debt service. Under four is comfortable; over five and a half is fragile.
Well-run stores commonly run 20–35% operating margin before owner compensation. Below 10% usually means rent is too high for the traffic, or utility cost per turn is out of line.