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.
Run the Profit Audit
The Profit Audit scores five areas, Pour and Bar Cost, Food Cost, Shrink and Waste, Theft and Cash Loss, and Vendor Cost Control, off the data you already keep. There is no form to fill in and nothing self-reported. It scores whatever it can see and shows N/A for anything it cannot, so the more you log, the more it covers.
1. Get your week in
Open Profit Recovery → Profit Audit. The top card is a readiness checklist of what the audit reads, an inventory count, hours logged, deliveries logged, voids logged, cash reconciled, and the week confirmed, and it checks off each slice you already have. Any row you are missing taps through to the step that fills it. You can still run with gaps; they just read N/A.
2. Generate the audit
Hit Generate. Your Inventory, Shift, and Labor numbers feed it as verified ground truth, and your sales come from the weeks you close. If no week is closed yet, enter last week's bar and food sales when Bar Cop asks, so the first score has real numbers to work from.
3. Read your results
You get an overall score up top, a score for each of the five areas (N/A where there is no data), and a Recoverable Per Month figure with its annualized number. Below sit your Action Items, ranked by dollar impact.
4. Fix what it finds
Each action item has a Fix This button that drops you straight into Profit Fix on that exact gap. The Bar Cop Briefing is a short written read of where you stand, and Export PDF saves the whole audit. Run it whenever you want a fresh read; it scores your trailing four weeks and keeps one record a day so you can watch the score trend.
Every score and dollar figure is computed in code from your real numbers, the same every time. A section with no data is left out, never guessed, so no one can talk the number up by claiming a practice the data does not back.
Still need a hand? Email support@barcop.com.