Practical tools for mobile food businesses

Make better decisions before they cost you money.

Use these free NSFVA tools to evaluate purchases, events, operating costs, leadership habits, and catering prices with numbers—not guesses.

Choose the decision you are working on today. Each tool provides an immediate result. Where an emailed report is offered, marketing updates remain optional.

Startup planning

Before You Buy

Check whether your menu, budget, permitting path, and operating plan are ready before buying or leasing a truck or trailer.

Check your readiness
Event profitability

Event Analyzer

Estimate the sales volume an event must produce and evaluate whether the opportunity can meet your profit requirements.

Analyze an event
Financial control

Break-Even Calculator

Calculate the sales required to cover fixed costs, variable costs, labor, and the owner income your business needs to produce.

Find your break-even
Leadership development

DiSC Assessment

Identify how you naturally lead during real food truck shifts and receive an operations-focused development plan.

Take the assessment
Catering profitability

Catering Price Calculator

Build a catering price that accounts for food, supplies, labor, travel, fixed costs, profit, service charges, and applicable tax.

Price a catering job

Educational planning tools from the National Street Food Vendors Association. Always verify local legal, tax, licensing, and food-safety requirements.