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Amaka’s plates

Jollof and chicken, three hundred plates on a good day, paid by phone at the counter.

  • 12.0% a year to lenders, on what is drawn
  • 10% of each sale repays the loan
  • about $1,952 a day
  • opened 78d ago in Lagos

In the till

$4,226.21

+$678.41 net, last four days

The line$1,250.00

5 lenders
Drawn
$828.77
Room to draw
$421.23
Lent
$1,250.00
Sold, all time
$3,324.20
806 sales
Spent, all time
$2,391.16
95 costs
Interest owed
$0.000262
12% a year, ticking
Paid to lenders
$0.45
first, out of every sale

An example till: every seat is open. Last sale 1m ago, $1.20.

Amaka’s plates, the tape806 sales
  1. a drink1.20
  2. loan, last 5 sales−2.22
  3. plate, jollof and chicken4.50
  4. plate, jollof and chicken4.50
  5. PaidNgozi A., interest0.11
  6. plate, jollof3.20
  7. a drink1.09
  8. two plates8.88
  9. Costtomatoes, peppers−12.00
  10. loan, last 5 sales−1.53
  11. a drink1.07
  12. LentKemi O., into the pool20.00
  13. two plates7.45
  14. a drink1.14
  15. a drink1.17
  16. plate, jollof and chicken4.50
  17. loan, last 5 sales−2.20
  18. plate, jollof3.20
  19. a drink1.11
  20. Costgas refill−14.94
  21. two plates8.66
  22. plate, jollof and chicken4.50
  23. plate, jollof and chicken4.50
  24. loan, last 5 sales−1.41
  25. plate, jollof and chicken4.50
  26. Costtomatoes, peppers−32.27
  27. a drink0.87
  28. plate, jollof3.20
  29. plate, jollof and chicken4.50
  30. a drink1.00

The line, worked out

  1. 35% of the till, $4,226.21$1,479.17
  2. + what it netted, four days$678.41
  3. = what the books support$2,157.58
  4. held at what was lent$1,250.00
  5. The line$1,250.00
  6. − drawn$828.77
  7. Room to draw$421.23

The line, the last hour

Who lent

  • Ngozi A.$300+$0.11
  • Tomi B.$150+$0.06
  • Uncle Femi$500+$0.18
  • Kemi O.$100+$0.03
  • Dayo I.$200+$0.07

Interest is paid out of each sale before anything else, in proportion to what each lender put in. What is not drawn can be taken back any time.