Real margin on bundled meals & combos
Calculate the real margin on any combo or bundled meal — and find out whether your combos are driving profit or silently eating into it.
Combos feel like an easy win. Bundle a main, a side, and a drink at a discount and customers buy more. But the math underneath is often ugly. Each item in the combo has its own cost; the combo price is usually 10-20% below the sum of individual prices; and customers who would have bought just the main are now buying everything at a discount. Many combos cannibalize higher-margin standalone orders.
Combos work — when designed with margin math, not gut feel. A well-built combo lifts average order value and brings in new customers. A badly built combo trains your existing customers to wait for the discount and shrinks your margin on what they already buy. The difference is a 20-minute calculation that almost no restaurant does before launching the combo.
Build a combo from your existing menu items
Auto-calculated bundled cost (sum of component costs)
Discount % vs standalone-price baseline
Combo gross margin vs individual item margins
Cannibalization estimator (lost margin on customers who would have bought anyway)
Break-even uplift — extra orders needed to justify the combo
Channel-specific combo modeling (dine-in, Swiggy, Zomato)
Verdict: combo wins, breaks even, or loses money
Pick the dishes you want to bundle (main, side, drink, dessert)
FixMenu sums up the component costs
Set your combo price and FixMenu calculates discount %
See combo margin vs individual margin side-by-side
Review cannibalization estimate and break-even uplift
Adjust combo price or composition — or reject the combo
Most restaurants discount combos 10-15% off the sum of individual prices. Above 20% and you usually start losing money. The calculator shows the exact safe range for your specific combo.
Designing a new lunch combo before launching
Auditing existing combos that have been running for a year
Building family packs for festival weekends
Pricing Swiggy/Zomato-exclusive combos to protect margin
Deciding whether to keep or cut an underperforming combo
Run Combo Profit Calculator on your real menu data. Upgrade to Pro for advanced features.