RevPASH (Revenue Per Available Seat-Hour)

It tells you how much money each seat earns for every hour you are open.

Formal definition

RevPASH divides total revenue by the product of seats available and hours open, measuring revenue productivity of dining room capacity.

Why it matters

Low RevPASH means you are paying for seats and hours that are not generating enough sales to cover rent and labor.

Where you see it

• Restaurant capacity planning sessions
• Hospitality consulting benchmarks
• Hotel F&B outlet reviews (related to RevPAR)
• Menu engineering and daypart strategy meetings
• Operations textbooks for food service management

Worked example

1. A 40-seat bistro is open 10 hours per day, 26 days this month.
2. Available seat-hours = 40 × 10 × 26 = 10,400.
3. Monthly revenue is $93,600.
4. RevPASH = $93,600 ÷ 10,400 = $9.00 per seat-hour.
5. Interpretation: Each seat-hour earned $9 — compare to local full-service benchmarks.

How Business metrics calculates it

Revenue ÷ (Seats × Service hours per day × Days open). Match annual vs. monthly in both numerator and denominator.

The range we use for status labels

On Business metrics, the status band for this KPI is roughly 12 to 20. Higher values are generally healthier in this band. Your niche can sit outside it honestly — the label is a prompt to read the coaching, not a certificate.

Where people fool themselves

RevPASH collapses if you put annual revenue over monthly seat-hours. Match the period. A “terrible RevPASH” is often a unit mismatch, not a dead dining room.

Run it on your own numbers: the Food & Beverage calculator.