Juice Bar & Smoothie Shop input evidence register
45 financial inputs with their assumptions, calculation bases and cited sources.
Read the supported claim, observation period, geography and units together. A source access date records when it was consulted. A model assumption identifies a selected amount or target; a calculated result follows from those inputs and does not establish observed demand or a quoted opening budget.
Case updated October 4, 2026. These notes accompany the complete case methodology and source register.
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These notes explain the opening budget, annual forecast and calculator assumptions. Linked sources provide the support described in each note; they do not necessarily confirm the selected amounts. Check scenario assumptions against local quotes and operating records.
- Model assumption
Applies to: Total opening budget · Lower opening budget · Upper opening budget · Deposits, permits and professional fees · Opening inventory, smallwares and training · Project contingency · Working capital reserve
StartFigures selected the opening range, deposits, opening inputs, contingency and reserve for one fixed-location scenario. SBA supports separating one-time and recurring costs; FDA supports checking the applicable food-establishment rules. Neither source supplies these dollar amounts. Replace them with the lease, authority fees, launch schedule and dated cash plan.
- Model assumption
Applies to: Leasehold improvements and building systems · Counter, POS, furniture and signage
The leasehold, counter, POS, furniture and signage allocations are authored project allowances. They require landlord documents, design, contractor, technology and authority quotes for the actual premises.
- Model assumption
Applies to: Blending and juicing equipment · Refrigeration, ice and warewashing
Current vendor listings establish examples of commercial blenders, juicers, refrigeration and ice equipment and their individual prices on the access date. StartFigures authored the larger package allowances; quantity, sizing, used/new mix, freight, tax, filtration, utilities, commissioning, warewashing, small equipment and service coverage remain unquoted.
- Model assumption
Applies to: Revenue (Years 1–5) · Ingredients, packaging and sales-linked costs (Years 1–5) · Paid owner and staff incl. employer costs (Years 1–5) · Occupancy and other operating costs (Years 1–5)
Every annual value is an authored scenario. Year-three revenue is exactly 150 orders × $15.75 × 6 days × 52 weeks. Cost of sales applies a selected 36% variable-cost envelope. Payroll and overhead are authored schedules informed by national wage, employer-tax, waste-control, payment-cost and food-service context; none of those references verifies this location's sales or expenses. Year 1 follows the selected opening ramp using 52 weeks and a lighter roster. Year 2 independently selects $715,000; the constant mature-cost calculator uses its own monthly path. No local opening roster or cash dates validate that difference.
- Model assumption
Applies to: Net average order (base scenario) · Net average order (lower sensitivity) · Net average order (upper sensitivity) · Completed orders per day (base scenario) · Completed orders per day (lower sensitivity) · Completed orders per day (upper sensitivity) · Trading days per week (base scenario) · Trading days per week (lower sensitivity) · Trading days per week (upper sensitivity) · Opening sales as a share of mature volume · Monthly increase toward mature volume · Forecast horizon (months)
The order price, volume, schedule, ranges and ramp are StartFigures planning inputs for the defined operation. National classification and food-spending context do not establish one shop's ticket, throughput, seasonality or launch curve. Validate them with a local menu, capacity test and ordinary-day paid orders.
- Model assumption
Applies to: Monthly fixed operating costs · Contribution margin
The $34,167 mature monthly fixed-cost input equals the rounded year-three payroll and occupancy/other forecast divided by 12. The 64% contribution margin is one minus the selected 36% sales-linked cost envelope. National wages, retail produce-yield context, waste-assessment guidance and posted processor pricing inform what to validate but do not verify the selected shares.