Estimate practical cold plunge service capacity from the number of stations, open hours, session length, turnover time, and target utilization. The result separates theoretical schedule space from a more realistic daily and weekly booking plan. Use it for staffing, appointment-slot design, and demand comparisons without assuming every minute can be sold.
Capacity is rounded down to whole bookings; weekly capacity multiplies the practical daily result by operating days.
Practical capacity estimates the bookings a location can plan for after allowing for unsold time, delays, and normal scheduling gaps.
Actual staffing, maintenance, demand patterns, and safety procedures can reduce achievable capacity further.
Three stations open 10 hours with 30-minute sessions and 10-minute turnover allow 45 theoretical bookings. At 80% utilization, practical capacity is 36 sessions per day.
The station is unavailable for the next client during cleaning and preparation, so both occupy schedule capacity.
It accounts for unsold slots, delays, maintenance, and other normal gaps in a theoretical schedule.
No. The calculator rounds station schedules down to whole booking cycles.
If staffing is the tighter limit, enter only the number of stations that can actually be staffed at once.
No. Use an average open-hours value or calculate different schedules separately.
| Capacity input | Planning role |
|---|---|
| Stations | Parallel service positions |
| Booking cycle | Session plus turnover time |
| Utilization | Allowance for unusable schedule time |