Table Turn Calculator

Revenue Per Seat-Hour measures the productivity of a single average seat -- Average Check times covers per hour, adjusted for Occupancy Rate -- so it stays the same whether the dining room has 20 seats or 200. Total Seats instead scales the totals that depend on the whole restaurant's capacity: Daily Covers, Daily Revenue, and Projected Monthly Revenue.

Max Turns Per Seat is Operating Hours divided by Average Dining Time, so a shorter average table occupancy directly increases how many times each seat can be filled and vacated during a shift. That flows through to Effective Turns, Daily Covers, and ultimately Revenue Per Seat-Hour and Daily Revenue -- all rise when the same seats turn over faster, without any change to Total Seats or Average Check.

Max Turns Per Seat is the theoretical ceiling -- Operating Hours divided by Average Dining Time -- assuming every seat is refilled the instant it's vacated with zero downtime. Effective Turns multiplies that ceiling by Occupancy Rate to reflect real-world service, where tables sit briefly empty between parties, demand isn't perfectly even across the shift, and reservations don't always show. Effective Turns is always less than or equal to Max Turns Per Seat.

A real dining room rarely runs at full capacity through every minute of service -- there are gaps between seatings, slower stretches within a shift, and imperfect table-turn timing even at a busy restaurant. Assuming 100% occupancy would systematically overstate Effective Turns, Daily Covers, and every revenue figure that flows from them, so the default models a commonly cited realistic utilization rate instead.

No -- Total Covers (Daily Covers) is determined entirely by Total Seats, Average Dining Time, Operating Hours, and Occupancy Rate, none of which involve Average Check. Average Check only scales the dollar outputs -- Daily Revenue, Revenue Per Seat, Revenue Per Seat-Hour, and Projected Monthly Revenue -- once the number of covers is already known.