Profit Recovery is where Bar Cop finds the money leaking out of your operation and walks you through plugging it. It runs on a loop: an audit scores you and names the leaks, a playbook explains each one, a fix system tracks the work, and a forecast shows what it is all worth. The leak tools underneath are the detectors that feed it. Here is how it fits together.

1. Confirm your week

Everything reads off the weeks you close. Confirm each week so the audit, forecast, and reports have real sales and cost to work from. See Week History.

2. Run the Profit Audit

The audit scores five profit areas off the data you already keep and hands you action items ranked by dollar impact, each with a jump straight to the fix. See Run the Profit Audit.

3. Read the Playbook

The playbook is the strategy behind your fix systems: where the money leaks, what each leak costs, and the exact screen that closes it. See Work the Profit Playbook.

4. Work the Fix Systems

A fix is a system you keep running, not a checklist you finish. Bar Cop reads your live data and shows whether each one is actually happening. See Run a Profit Fix.

5. See what it is worth

The Profit Forecast projects where you land at your current pace against where you land at your targets. The gap is what cleaning up is worth. See Profit Forecast.

6. Hunt the leaks

The leak tools are the deep-dive detectors behind the audit score:

• Find Sales Leaks, the per-server theft read off your POS
• Chase Vendor Credits, keeping your vendors honest on price and short counts
• Read the Recipe Summary, the menu items eating your margin
• Loss Prevention, the live loss detector and investigation trail
• Over and Short, who and what keeps coming up short

7. Test your own changes

Made a change on your own, like re-speccing a pour or switching a vendor? Log it as an experiment and Bar Cop measures the before and after. See Run an Experiment.

The honest rule: every score and dollar figure in Profit Recovery is computed from your real numbers, the same every time. A section with no data reads N/A, never a guess. The more you log in Control, the more the audit can see.