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A bakery is modeled on foot traffic rather than on seats, because the counter sells to people walking past and the cake orders arrive by phone. Walk-ins times conversion gives buying customers, repeat visits add the regulars who come back inside the month, and a blended ticket of $12 to $18 converts that into revenue; the ticket sits above a cafe's because custom cake orders in the mix pull it up. Ingredients and packaging are cost of goods at 30 to 38 percent, so gross margin lands in the mid to high sixties. The bakers are employees, so their pay sits in fixed costs, and it starts hours before the first customer does.
Ovens, mixers, proofer, walk-in, display cases and a small seating area commonly total $100,000 to $300,000 for a street-level shop, financed over ten years. Butter, eggs and chocolate are the exposed cost lines, and a bread-led shop runs a few points of margin better than a cake-led one. One neighbourhood bakery does roughly $350,000 to $750,000 a year; a figure well above that is describing a production bakery with wholesale accounts, which has a different cost shape. The model holds debt service coverage at 1.25 or better.
Payroll is the lever, and it is the one that moves first. A head baker and a second baker are on shift whether the shop sells 150 items or 400, so the early months carry a payroll sized for a queue that has not formed yet. After that the result turns on waste: day-old markdowns and comps are the discount line in this model, and a shop that bakes to yesterday's demand rather than to a forecast gives back several points of margin without noticing. Custom orders are the counterweight, because a cake sold in advance is baked to order and carries no waste at all.
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