Our tools
Free tools for mobile food operators.
Straight answers to the questions that come up before a season starts and after a bad Saturday — what a day really made, what a permit costs, which events book food vendors. You do not need an account for any of them, and you never will.
Free to use, and no account needed.
Calculators
Answer a money question in a minute, from figures you type in yourself. Nothing is stored and nothing is sent anywhere.
- Food truck profit calculatorWork out what a service day actually leaves you, once food, crew, card fees and site costs come out of the sales.Open this tool
- Food truck break-even calculatorSee how much a mobile food business has to sell in a day before it starts making money, once the costs that happen anyway are covered.Not built yet
- Food truck startup cost calculatorAdd up what it takes to get a mobile food business running — the unit, the build-out, equipment, permits, and the money needed before the first service.Not built yet
- Food truck menu pricing calculatorPrice one menu item from what it costs to make, and see what each sale leaves before the rest of the day's costs.Open this tool
- Food truck event fee calculatorWork out whether an event's fee is worth it — a flat booking fee, a share of sales, or both — before you agree to the date.Not built yet
Checklists and guides
What a mobile food business usually has to have in place, with a link to the authority that says so. Informational, never legal advice.
Colorado
The state we know best. Sourced, dated, and honest about what has not been checked yet.
- Colorado food truck events and marketsPublic events, markets and venues around Colorado that book food vendors, each carrying its source and the date it was last checked.Not built yet
- Colorado food truck permit guides by cityWhat each Colorado city publishes about licensing a mobile food business: which permits, the published fees, and where to apply.Open this tool
- Colorado sales tax rates for food trucksThe published combined sales tax rate for Colorado cities, what each rate is made of, and which authorities you actually file with.Open this tool
- Colorado commissary kitchen directoryCommissary kitchens around Colorado that work with mobile food businesses, each showing where the listing came from and when it was last checked.Open this tool
What we count here. How many times each of these pages is opened and used, as a daily total per page. No cookies, no accounts, no profile of anybody who visits, and no third-party tracker. The privacy notice says exactly what that means.
If you run a mobile food business
A tool answers once. Lonchero answers every day.
Everything on this page works from figures you type in, and it is yours to use as often as you like without telling us anything. What it cannot do is know how your week actually went. That is the part an account is for.
- It works from the days you recorded, not from figures typed in for one question.
- It keeps the answer current as your sales, crew pay and costs change.
- Connect Square or Clover, or write the day down yourself — both reach the same result.
30 days free, then $39 a month. Cancel any time, and the tools on this page stay free whether you sign up or not.