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How to run Bar Cop.

Step-by-step guides for every part of the app. Keep this open in a second window while you work, so you can follow along on your own screen.

Week History

Every week you have confirmed, newest first, in one table. This is the record rather than a worksheet: nothing is typed here. It is where you see the run of your weeks instead of one week at a time, and it is where you go back and correct one.

One row is a whole week

Each row joins your profit numbers and your revenue numbers for the same week, so a row is the whole picture of how that week went rather than half of it.

  • Revenue. Total sales for the week, catering included.
  • Prime Cost. Cost of goods plus labor against total sales. The one number that says whether the week paid.
  • Check Average. Food and beverage sales per cover.
  • Labor %. All labor, hourly and salaried, against total sales.
  • RPLH. Revenue per labor hour.

Reading down the column is the point. One week tells you very little; six in a row tell you whether something is moving.

The summary at the top

Above the table, the same five figures for your latest confirmed week, with a line underneath naming which week they belong to. It is there so you do not have to read the top row of the table to know where you stand.

Fixing a week

Edit on any row re-opens that week in the same Confirm the Week popup you closed it with, prefilled with what you saved. Change a figure, confirm again, and everything downstream follows the corrected number: your audits, your Fix systems, your Books.

This is the way back into a closed week, and it is the answer to the count lock. If you need to change a count that a confirmed week was priced off, re-open the week here first.

A week you never closed

Missed weeks show up here too, as long as Shift has sales imported for them. So a week that went by while you were busy is visible rather than silently absent, and you can confirm it late from the same place. There is also an Add It button for a week with nothing behind it at all.

Closing a week late costs you nothing. Records are dated from the week they belong to, not from the day you got round to confirming. A month of catching up lands in the right months.

Correct it once

There is one set of weekly records behind this page. Correct a week and it is corrected everywhere at the same moment, for Profit and Revenue alike. There is no second copy to keep in step and no version of the week that stays wrong.

How it differs from Week in Review

Week History is every week, shallow: five figures a row, so you can compare them and re-open one. Week in Review is one week, deep: eight sections, what was done, what it turned up, what carries forward. Come here to spot the week that looks wrong, go there to find out why.

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