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Subject: Re: Bar Software
From: Josh
Posted: Mon Jun 5. 2006, 01:59 UTC
Followup to: "Re: Bar Software"  by Spellbinder  (Sun Jun 4. 2006, 18:27 UTC)
Cody is right, an analytics program won't be of much help for at least a year, 
and based on your sales growth (or decline) it'll be a few years before you'll 
have it refined. Unless you're really a high volume place, I don't think 
you'll see a ROI on this type of software.

What you really need is a nicely organized shift log (AM/PM) where you log 
your total sales, hourly sales, bar sales, food sales, number of servers, 
cooks, bartenders, bussers etc you had on, who was the manager, any special 
events, weather, manager comments (about biz flow, employee performance etc), 
when you cut each team member. I believe you can buy these ready made, or have 
them custom made, and are formatted as a calender - so each day is two pages - 
AM and PM shift.

Then the manager on duty can go back, even from the previous day, and have a 
good feel for what's going on. One place I worked for that did about 15-20k 
daily had this system as well as analytical software that forecasted when 
employees should be cut based on what the estimated sales per hour were going 
to be. The next day we would print a report comparing what was estimated, what 
was the actual, and what was the ideal. If the ideal and actual graphs matched 
up well, the boss would be happy.

However to be honest, I think the log book was a much, much better tool 
overall. Software sometimes is simply too black and white, and doesn't take 
into effect a wide variety of factors that it should, such as competency of 
the staff you have working, gluts of guests slamming the restaurant at one 
time, or even worse, near closing time, or at the beginning of the shift, etc.

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