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A truck is one service window, so capacity is orders per service day times service days per month, and utilization is how full those days actually are. Roughly ninety orders is a strong day at a single window, and twenty two service days is a working month once weather, maintenance and permit days are taken out. Rent here is commissary and parking rather than a storefront lease, which is the structural reason a truck reaches break-even faster than a restaurant on the same food cost.
A single truck does roughly $150,000 to $350,000 a year. A used vehicle brought up to code, fitted out, wrapped and permitted commonly runs around $100,000 to $150,000, financed over five years at a higher rate than a real-estate-backed business because the collateral is a vehicle. Food cost near 30 percent is the planning midpoint. The model holds the truck to the same DSCR floor of 1.25 as every other financed local business, because the lender applies the same test.
Service days are the variable most plans get wrong. A truck that assumes twenty six days a month is assuming no rain, no breakdowns and no dead pitches, and the difference between twenty two and twenty six days is most of the margin. The second lever is pitch quality: the same truck at the same ticket does double the covers at an office park lunch rush that it does on a quiet street, which is why the model treats utilization as an input you have to defend rather than a number that improves on its own.
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