Free UK cafe valuation tool
What is your cafe actually worth?
A four-step calculator using current 2026 UK broker multipliers, sector-aware across all nine fixed-premises Class E categories.
Confidential UK café valuations benchmarked against live SDE and weekly-takings multiples.
How this calculator works & what happens after you submit▾
This is a broker-grade indicative valuation tool built for the UK fixed-premises daytime hospitality market in 2026. It is not a generic small-business calculator and it is not a turnover multiplier dressed up as a valuation. Each of the nine business categories supported by BuyMyCafe — specialty coffee, traditional café, tea room, sandwich bar, deli/farm-shop café, bakery café, dessert parlour, bistro café and concept-hybrid operations — uses a distinct valuation framework, because each has a different buyer pool, a different margin profile and a different way of recouping investment. A specialty espresso bar with a £140k La Marzocco plant priced on weekly takings would be undervalued; a wet-led sandwich bar priced on adjusted SDE would be overvalued. The calculator switches the inputs and the multiplier range based on the sector you choose, so the figure you see at the end reflects what a real trade or private acquirer would actually offer.
The default framework for production-led, profit-led and licensed operations is a multiple of Seller's Discretionary Earnings (SDE) — net profit with the owner-operator salary, discretionary spend and one-off costs added back. SDE is the metric brokers, accountants and acquirers in this sector negotiate against, because turnover alone hides whether the business actually generates cash. For unbranded high-street cafés and dessert parlours where takings are the cleanest signal, the tool uses a weekly-takings multiplier instead. Tea rooms and freehold sites add a property-value component. Region also matters: London and the Home Counties carry a premium against the national base; Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland weight slightly below.
When you submit, the figure is delivered to you by email and a senior BuyMyCafe broker reviews the underlying inputs. If your business is a credible exit candidate, you'll be invited to a confidential, no-obligation valuation conversation — no public listing, no portal upload, no contact with your staff, suppliers or landlord. Your data is never sold and never published. You can request deletion at any time via contact@buymycafe.co.uk.