Pour Cost Meter

Every cocktail and ingredient has a pour cost meter on its Numbers tab. It's built to read in a second, mid-service, without stopping to think.

The pieces

• The big number. Your pour cost: cost divided by Menu Price.
• The status. Top right. On Target (or Within Target), then Slight Over, Over, and Way Over, with the same steps on the under side.
• The goal line. Something like "Cocktail Target 18%," plus how far over or under you are.
• The bar. Fills left to right as pour cost climbs. The thin mark in the middle is your goal. Past the mark means over goal.

Which goal it uses

Cocktails and spirits are measured against your cocktail goal. Beer uses your beer goal. Wine uses your wine goal: by the glass for glass pours, by the bottle for bottle service. Change any of them in Settings → Calculations → Pour Cost Targets.

The colors

Green is on target. Yellow is close. Orange is drifting. Red is way off. Way under gets flagged too. That can be fine (cheap wells often run low), but it can also mean a cost in PourCost is out of date.