Restaurant Table Turnover Calculator

Table turnover is the number of times a table seats a new party in a service period, and for a full-service restaurant it is the ceiling on revenue: you cannot serve more covers than your tables turn. This calculator computes it from your own floor and timings.

The formula, in the open

• Turns per table per day = service minutes ÷ average visit length, rounded DOWN — a table cannot half-turn, so partial turns don't count.
• Seatings per day = turns per table × active tables.
• Covers per day = seatings × average party size.
• Revenue estimate (optional) = covers × your average spend per guest. It appears only when you enter a spend figure — it is your number multiplied out, not a projection of ours.

A worked example

A 14-table restaurant with a 55-minute average visit and 8 service hours: 480 ÷ 55 rounds down to 8 turns per table, so 112 seatings a day. At an average party of 2.6 that is about 291 covers; with a ₹520 average spend per guest, roughly ₹1,51,320 of daily capacity.

What moves the number

The lever is the average visit length — and most of a visit's dead time is waiting: for the menu, to order, for the bill, to pay. That is why the operational changes that shorten waits (ordering at the table, kitchen sequencing, paying without flagging a server) show up directly in turns. Shaving 5 minutes off the example above adds a ninth turn on busy days.

Try it

Enter your own floor below. The defaults are the worked example — replace them with yours.