SAMPLE, A PLACE LIKE YOURS · FICTIONAL PUBS, FICTIONAL NUMBERS PUBLISHED DAILY, ABOUT YOUR PUBS, BY SYPHOR The Morning Brief | COPPER KETTLE PUBS · ALL 4 | WEDNESDAY MORNING |
All 4Station StreetNorthgateRiversideOld Town $16,900 ▲ 5.0%vs. your usual Tuesday, $16,100 · 471 tabs · made $533 after every bill AGAINST LAST YEAR · ALL 4 | gray is last year | SALES | PROFIT |
| Same Tuesday | $16,900 ▲ 3.7% $16,300 | $533 ▼ $157 $690 |
| Last 7 days | $136,000 ▲ 3.7% $131,200 | $12,240 ▼ $860 $13,100 |
| Month to date | $384,000 ▲ 3.5% $371,000 | $34,500 ▼ $2,400 $36,900 |
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THE ONE THING TODAY Station Street comped $1,180 of drinks last week, three times the others’ $390, $740 of it on Dave’s manager key after 11 PM Friday and Saturday. Trivia prizes are not in it. Bring Station Street down to the others’ $390 and that is $790 a week at menu price. At cost, about $800 a month, close to $10,000 a year. |
ACROSS YOUR 4 PUBS, LAST NIGHT | 1 | Station Street trivia, keg kicked | $5,200 | 28% | $581 |
| 2 | Northgate wing night | $4,600 | 27% | $375 |
| 3 | Riverside rain, patio closed | $3,900 | 29% | -$4 |
| 4 | Old Town two bartenders closed | $3,200 | 33% | -$419 |
After every bill, rent included. |
SALES → PROFIT · ALL 4 LAST NIGHT LAST 7 DAYS For the week, all four pubs: labor is an estimate until payroll posts, fixed bills until the bills post. Prime cost 58.0%. |
THE LEDGER · ALL 4 | Labor est. | 28.9% Bar 11.8%, kitchen 11.0%, floor 6.1%. |
| Invoice prices | $410 a week more ▲ 15 up, 2 down All four pubs, every invoice line against last week’s. Wings are $242 of it. |
| Comps | $408 ▲ 41% Usually $290. |
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The money. Northgate’s 63 wing orders went out with two pints each: the wings made $2.40 an order, the two pints about $11. Old Town. $190 of bar labor for 14 tabs, about $500, after 9, fourth quiet Tuesday running. The second bartender’s 9 to 12:30 is $80. Send her home at 9 and last night’s loss is $339, not $419; the rest is Old Town’s share of rent on a $3,200 night. Invoices. Whole wings went from $98 to $109 a 40 lb case on yesterday’s invoice. Menu unchanged. At 178 a case, an order of 10 costs $6.10, up from $5.50, and sells for $8.50. Wing night food cost goes from 65% to 72%. Twenty-two cases a week, 7 at Northgate: $242 a week, $12,600 a year. Lager: Station Street and Northgate pay $9 a keg more than the other two. Nine kegs a week, $350 a month. Beer. Station Street’s lager kicked at 10 and the line sat dry about 40 minutes with two kegs cold in the walk-in: about 25 pints at $7.50, $190. Its kegs pour 114 pints to the others’ 118: 4 pints on 4.5 kegs a week, $585 a month. This week. Thursday’s opener is near Station Street; big games run 41% over a usual $5,900 Thursday. Foxglove opened near Northgate yesterday, $5 pints until 7. Two reviews, both Old Town, both 2 stars: "waited 50 minutes for food Saturday" and "one cook for a full room." Saturday had 48 covers on one cook. RESERVATIONS · ALL 4 | Thursday, Station Street | 14 tables held The game, from 5. |
| Saturday | Old Town 16-top At 7. |
From your bookings. |
FROM THE LOGBOOK · LAST NIGHT’S CLOSE Station Street: Trivia, 19 teams. Two comped rounds for the winners, a team of eight. Lager kicked at 10. Jess, 12:35 AM. Old Town: Quiet after 9. Both bartenders closed. Ryan, 12:50 AM. |
MENU SANDBOX · TRY IT BEFORE IT GOES ON THE MENU | Wings at $1 each, not 85¢, on Northgate’s 630 wings last night. Covers its $77 a week of case price. | +$95 a week |
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THE ACTION LIST · TODAY, IN ORDER | 1. | Staff: Two more on Station Street’s bar Thursday from 5, about $260, for about $2,400 more in sales. A spare lager keg cold by 5. Riverside’s patio server off tonight, rain 5 to 10, $120. Owner: ops. |
| 2. | Pull: Dave’s comps by check, then a $50 shift limit at all four: about $800 a month. Jess comped 31 pints; two rounds for eight is 16. The other 15, $112, by check. Owner: you. |
| 3. | Fix: Station Street’s lager pour, $585 a month; kicked kegs changed in ten minutes. Owner: beverage manager. |
| 4. | Test: Wings at $1 on Northgate’s wing night, two weeks, about $95 a week. Owner: Northgate GM. |
| 5. | Send: Old Town’s second bartender home at 9 Tuesdays, about $350 a month; a second cook Saturday 6 to 9, about $60, for the 16-top, about $700. Owner: ops. |
| 6. | Call: The beer distributor, $350 a month. Owner: beverage manager. |
| 7. | Watch: Foxglove. Northgate’s Friday 4 to 7 runs $1,100. Under $950, $5 pints until 7 next Friday, $225 off 90 pints. Owner: Northgate GM. |
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