Bars, Pubs & Nightclubs
Beverage COGS creep silently — a point here, a point there — until they quietly destroy your margins. Track beer, wine, and liquor cost separately, set targets, and get alerts the moment you're trending over.
Where Bar Profit Disappears
The bar should be your highest-margin revenue center. For most operators, it's a profit leak they can't see clearly because they're not tracking it correctly.
When beer, wine, and liquor are lumped together, a high-performing spirit program masks a bleeding draft beer program — or vice versa. You can't fix what you can't see separately.
A bartender consistently pouring 1.25 oz instead of 1 oz is giving away 25% of your liquor revenue. Without tracking purchase cost vs. beverage sales by category, you never catch it.
Industry estimates put bar shrinkage (theft, spills, over-pouring, comps) at 20–25% of pour cost in unmanaged operations. Real-time cost tracking is the first step to recapturing that margin.
If your bar manager doesn't have a simple tool to track and visualize their beverage cost percentage weekly, they'll manage by feel. That's expensive. Give them the data they need.
Built for Bar Operators
Set individual COGS targets for draft beer, bottled beer, wine, and liquor. See each as a percentage of its own beverage sales — not blended together where problems hide.
Set your liquor cost target at 22%. The moment your actual purchase data pushes that number over target, you get an email alert — before the period closes and the loss is locked in.
Track your bar inventory with 5-quantity fields per item — opening, received, transfers, ending, and waste. Get a clear picture of what's being consumed vs. what's disappearing.
See your beverage COGS % charted over time. Spot the weeks when your liquor cost spiked — correlate them to events, staff changes, or supplier pricing — and act accordingly.
The Pro Training plan includes modules specifically on pour cost management, responsible beverage service, upselling techniques, and bar inventory best practices for your management team.
Enter your beverage sales by category directly — no POS tap-level integration, no daily imports, no system access to grant. Works with any bar POS or no POS at all.
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