Meal Delivery Cart ROI Calculator

TL;DR. A simple interactive ROI / TCO calculator for a meal delivery cart deployment. Enter your facility's operational numbers; the calculator estimates 5-year energy cost, labor savings, and indicative TCO line items. Output is informational — for procurement-grade math support, use the structured framework in the pricing / ROI / TCO guide.

Cost calculator

Inputs

Number of carts Hours of operation per cart per day Cart wattage (Optimus = 1400W per spec sheet; replace with your cart's published wattage) Energy cost ($/kWh) Trays delivered per cart per day Trayline minutes saved per tray vs pellet baseline Loaded labor rate ($/hour) Operating days per year

What this calculator does NOT include

HCAHPS food-temperature reimbursement variance (real but facility-specific; consult finance)
Patient satisfaction → readmission rate effects (correlational, not causal in available literature)
Cart capital cost (this is operating-impact only)
Charger consumables (pellet replacement, dome replacement) when modeling against pellet baseline
Service contract pricing differences
HACCP documentation labor reduction (real but harder to dollarize directly)
Compliance-deficiency risk reduction
End-of-life salvage value

Use this as an order-of-magnitude check, not a procurement-grade forecast. For procurement, the structured TCO framework walks through every line item.

Default values explanation

Default values used in calculator
10 carts	Mid-size facility default; adjust to your fleet size
14 hours/day operation	Breakfast through evening service typical for hospital and LTC
1400W (Optimus default)	Optimus actual draw at 14A on 120V per JZHR-ONE-20 spec sheet; replace with your cart's published wattage from its spec sheet
$0.13 / kWh	US commercial average — your contract rate may vary substantially
60 trays/cart/day	Two service windows × 30 trays per window for standard hospital fleet
0.5 min/tray saved	Conservative estimate for pellet-to-active migration; varies by trayline geometry
$22/hour loaded labor	US healthcare foodservice loaded average; replace with your actual rate
365 days operating	Healthcare facilities operate year-round; adjust for special schedules

Validate before procurement

Before committing capital based on this calculator, build the full TCO model with your finance team. The structured framework is in pricing / ROI / TCO. JonesZylon foodservice specialists can walk through the model with your team — schedule a session.

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