The Pre-Shift Briefing is the line-up sheet you read to the floor before doors. Bar Cop builds it for you off your targets, your forecast, and your best sellers, so line-up is a thirty-second read instead of something you scribble on a napkin.

1. Pick the service period

Open Shift → Pre-Shift Briefing. The briefing is per service period: pick the period at the top and Bar Cop builds a line-up for it, so a bar that runs lunch and dinner holds a separate pre-lunch and pre-dinner briefing the same day. If you run one service, you will not see the period picker.

2. Read what Bar Cop fills in

The check-average target is your Revenue target, and the cover forecast is Bar Cop's projection for today, the same one that feeds Build Schedule. The Featured Items list pre-fills with your best-margin sellers, weighted to the daypart you are briefing: lighter plates and apps at lunch, the big entrees and a cocktail at dinner, drinks and apps late night. It is a smart starting point, not a rule.

3. Make it yours

Swap or remove any featured item that does not fit, add your own from the menu, or reset back to the recommendations. Give each one a Talking Point, one short line telling servers how to sell it, and it saves to that item so it comes back every time you feature it. Add your one line of focus for the shift. Tap Customize on the upsell sequence to write your own steps and drag them into order; your version is used from then on, on screen and on the export.

4. Run it and log it

Read it at line-up, or tap Export Briefing for a paper copy. Tap Mark Briefing Held to log that you ran it for the selected period. Logging is optional: it counts toward your Bar Cop Audit operational discipline once you start using it, and never counts against you if you do not. Briefing History keeps a record per period.