Remote Location

Liquor Audits For Remote Locations

Question: How can I reduce my bar shortages?
Answer: Trace the amounts of every individual sale, even recipe drinks, back to the bottles they came from and compare the sales with the amounts used from your inventory.

The solution above is much easier said than done - unless you have a recipe system that will do it for you.

We can do it for you, right here in our office, and without the added expense of traveling to your establishment. Although statistics prove that an auditing service will pay for itself and increase the net profit for any bar or restaurant, many owners prefer to “Do It Myself” for a variety of reasons – remote location, cost, etc. You may use a spreadsheet that you designed, a simple inventory program that only calculates pour cost, pencil and paper. Or perhaps you do nothing and rely on your accounting program. You have probably been counting your inventory for a long time and are comfortable with your method. Although totally accurate inventories are desirable, we all know that a miscount here and there DOES NOT CAUSE SHRINK. If you miss it by a tenth or even a bottle this time, it will create a “blip” on your report. But when counted correctly the next time, everything evens out. Even if someone is purposely “padding” the count, it will show up when the correct count is made. As you know, things that DO cause Shrink are, over pouring and substituting brands for larger tips, spillage, outright theft of cash, etc. - Missing Product with no sales.

We have a way to provide thorough liquor audits that will identify these losses based on YOUR inventory count yet using OUR sophisticated software with the recipe module. This allows us to provide the service at a reduced cost by eliminating the expense of traveling to your establishment and counting your inventory.

WHY DO I NEED THIS?
A large part of sales involve Recipe Drinks; martinis, doubles, wines sold in half litres or by the glass, etc. These register entries either cannot be assigned to an individual product, or have different prices which preclude the use of the sales figures for comparison. Let’s say your inventory shows that 60 ounces of Smirnoff was used. Was that 60 shots at $5.95 or was it 35 shots and 10 Doubles at $9.95 plus 5 ounces used in other recipes. The difference between those two scenarios is 5.5%. That amount of Authorized recipe reductions is now mixed in with the Unauthorized Shrinkage. Without extending each line on your sales report you cannot separate shrink from recipe reductions. That is what our Recipe Module does.

To perform an accurate audit, each recipe sale must be broken out by ingredient and the amount of the ingredients traced back to each product. Without a proper system, this is laborious and time consuming. As a result, most owners simply divide the total cost of product used by the total sales from the register to determine their “Actual Pour Cost”. You cannot accurately determine what your “Planned Pour Cost” should have been because all of the authorized price reductions that result from legitimate recipe sales are HIDING THE SHRINKAGE. They are lumped together with spills, over pouring and all of the other contributors to shrinkage and prevent you from identifying what the planned pour cost SHOULD be. And just a 1% rise in pour cost could mean 5% is missing from the register. With $100,000 in sales per month, the unauthorized shortage would be $5,000.00 per month.

Our recipe system traces every register entry back to the product and identifies unauthorized shortages. Now you know precisely how your shortages occurred and what to do about them.

To perform a detailed, item-by-item liquor audit right here in our office, we simply need:
1)     Your itemized inventory counts with all product information.
2)     Copies of all purchase invoices.
3)     Itemized sales reports from your POS.
We construct your recipe file and store it on our computer.

Your detailed audit showing your planned pour cost, recipe reductions, unauthorized shrinkage, and your actual pour cost, line by line will be sent to you immediately upon completion. Prices for this service will range from $100.00 to $200.00 per audit, based on the amount of data to be processed. And with our Money Back Guarantee, there is no risk.

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Pacific Beverage Controls
1002-1111 Beach Avenue
Vancouver, BC V6E 1T9
Tel: 604-662-7265
Toll Free 1-877-317-0007
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