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.
The Bar Cop Audit
The Bar Cop Audit is your read on how well the whole operation is being run. The Profit, Revenue and Cash audits hunt for dollars to recover. This one asks a different question: is the place being run with discipline.
Nothing to upload
It scores entirely from data you already log across Inventory, Shift and Labor Control. There is no file to drop and no waiting period. Run it whenever you want a fresh read, and it scores your trailing 30 days.
The six sub-scores
- Operational Discipline. Are the daily and weekly procedures getting done: checklists, counts and spot checks on schedule, shifts logged, recovery audits run on time, maintenance backlog kept clear.
- Cash Integrity. Cash variance trend against revenue handled, a drawer counted every shift, large voids and comps authorised, cash dropped on the shifts that take real money.
- Inventory Execution. Counts and spot checks on schedule, vendor discrepancies resolved rather than aging, spot checks coming back clean.
- Labor Hygiene. Scheduled hours matching actual, callouts and overtime under control, certifications current, coaching notes written, wage policy set.
- Recovery Action. Did you act on what Bar Cop surfaced. Fixes logged against the gaps your audits raised, and how many produced real favourable movement.
- Operational Consistency. How steady the operation runs week to week. Low swing in covers, labor percent and pour cost over the last eight weeks is the mark of a disciplined bar.
How the score is built, and what it refuses to do
Operational Health at the top is the average of the sub-scores that have enough behind them. It needs at least three of the six covered before it shows a number at all, and reads N/A below that.
A component with nothing to judge is marked N/A and left out of the maths, never counted as a zero. A barely-used system cannot drag down a score it could not see, and a sub-score needs at least two scorable components before it shows a number. One signal is not a verdict. This is why an early audit comes back with some sections scored and others blank, and why the score moves as you feed it rather than starting low and climbing.
Open any section to see its breakdown: every component that fed the sub-score, with its own number and the count behind it.
Recovery Activity
The strip under the score tracks whether the recovery loop is actually moving: gaps surfaced by your latest audits, fixes logged in the last 30 days, dollars recovered to date, and fixes still being measured before their result is in.
Top Operational Exposures
The action list: cross-system items worth handling now, worst first. Red is act now, like a high-priority maintenance item, an aging vendor credit or a permit about to lapse. Amber is a watch. Open jumps you to the exact screen to work it.
Recurring Patterns
Problems that keep showing up over a rolling 90 days: the same cashier short again and again, voids stacking on one shift type, chronic shrinkage on one product, a vendor with repeated discrepancies, or labor blowing out on the same day of the week.
This is the section that catches what a single week hides. One short drawer is a night. The same person short six times is a conversation.
The briefing and the history
Bar Cop Briefing is a short written read of the whole audit, and Export PDF saves it as a document.
Bar Cop keeps one audit a day, so the history is a trend rather than a pile of runs from the same afternoon. The Audit History list reopens any past run.
How it relates to the other three
The Profit, Revenue and Cash audits each live with their own Fix system and hunt for money in their own area. This one sits above all three and scores the operation itself, including whether you acted on what they found. A bar can have good numbers and poor discipline for a while. This is the audit that notices.
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