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Sunny's Lemonade
A plan for opening day. The cover carries your sign, printed six inches wide, and the three things that matter most.
Saving for
A bike
The goal
$60
Opening day
you pick
Fresh squeezed todayBusy cornerWarm day
Open for businessUS Letter, four sides. The link is the plan; nothing is saved anywhere else.
Stand planSunny's Lemonade
Sunny's Lemonade
$1.00 a cup
Sunny's Lemonade
A plan for opening day
Saving for
a bike
The goal
$60
Opening day
Lemonade Day1 of 4
The numbersSunny's Lemonade
A cup costs
$1.00
what you charge
Cups to make
90
the whole batch
To set up
$40.00
before you sell one
40 cups gets your money back. Everything after that is yours.
106 cups would be needed to reach $60, because every extra cup costs lemons, sugar and a cup of its own. The list is below.
Borrowed $40. You hand back $40.
Paying back what you borrowed is not an expense. Selling every cup leaves $50 in the box.
Selling every one of your 90 cups makes $50, which is $10 short of $60. A batch of 106 gets there, and here is what that one costs. But the estimate only expects about 85 customers at $1.00, so a higher price is the other way round.
Lemons
36 lemons
$18.00
Sugar
1 4lb bag
$3.50
Paper cups
3 packs of 50
$9.00
Ice
3 bags
$7.50
Sign, cloth and cash box
once
$8.00
Setting up costs
$46.00
Selling all 106 at $1.00
$106.00
Profit
$60.00
Profit at every price
An estimate, not a forecast. It assumes a busy corner, a warm day, and that fewer people stop as the price goes up. Real customers decide, and they have not seen the chart.
Fifty cents either way
$0.50
makes $5.00
cheaper
$1.00
makes $45.00
your price
$1.50
makes $57.50
dearer
Why you picked your price
A right answer on the chart, a better one on the street. Both count.
Lemonade Day2 of 4
Shopping list90 cups
What
How many
Each
Total
LemonsAbout three cups from each one
30 lemons
$0.50
$15.00
SugarA cup of sugar makes a dozen
1 4lb bag
$3.50
$3.50
Paper cupsBuy one spare pack
2 packs of 50
$3.00
$6.00
IceGet it last, keep it in a cooler
3 bags
$2.50
$7.50
Sign kitCardboard, markers, tape, a cloth for the table
once
$8.00
$8.00
WaterFrom the tap
as needed
free
$0.00
Take this much$40.00
Supplies come in packs, so this list is stepped: you cannot buy two thirds of a bag of ice. Averaged over 90 cups that works out at $0.36 of ingredients each. Prices are a guess at a supermarket, not a quote.
Borrowed from
Who lent it
How much
Paid back
Anything else to bring
A cooler, a jug, a chair, change for the first customer, a grown up.
Lemonade Day3 of 4
Opening daySunny's Lemonade
One box a cup
20
40
60
80
90
The shaded box is 40, where you break even.
When the table comes down
Spend
Sold out, this would be $17.00
What it really was
On what
Save
Sold out, this would be $16.50
What it really was
Where it goes
Share
Sold out, this would be $16.50
What it really was
Which cause
The printed figures are the sellout case at $1.00 a cup: $50.00 of profit on all 90. The lines are for what actually happened, and the gap between the two is the most useful number anywhere in this plan.
What you would change next time
The price, the spot, the hours, how much you made, who helped.