$15,000/year
Lost from a 5-point variance on $300,000 in annual alcohol sales.
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PourProfit · A10 HOSPITALITY CONSULTING beverage program
The examples below preview the kind of variance a category-level review is designed to make visible before the program investment is considered.
Poura's audit lens keeps the illustrative gap grounded in the categories, pricing, portions, and purchasing patterns behind it.
$15,000/year
Lost from a 5-point variance on $300,000 in annual alcohol sales.
$24,000/year
Lost from a 3-point variance on an $800,000 food-and-beverage base.
Illustrative Example — your numbers will depend on sales mix, recipes, purchasing, and controls.
Illustrative math based on annual sales × percentage-point variance. Industry context: Restaurant Inventory Tools.
Theoretical vs. Actual Pour Cost
Target pour cost
20%
Typical audit finding
26%
That 6-point gap is where an audit starts: isolating whether the loss sits in spirits, draft, wine, cocktails, pricing, portions, or purchasing.
Sample Finding — illustrative only. Not a client result. Illustrative example of the gap a beverage audit is designed to uncover.
Where the Leak Hides
Spirits
+4 pts
Draft Beer
+6 pts
Wine
+0.5 pt
Cocktails
+2 pts
The total program number tells you that margin is leaking. Category-level analysis tells you where to fix it first.
Illustrative category breakdown — not client data.
The investment
Beverage Profit Audit
$2,500 flat
Find the leaks hiding in the numbers. We reconcile POS sales and invoices to isolate pour-cost issues by category, pricing, recipe, and supplier.
Implementation Sprint
$1,500
Put the controls in place. Turn recommendations into staff habits, POS settings, recipe controls, price updates, and vendor conversations.
Program Autopilot
from $495/month
Keep your margins in view. Refresh the data monthly with a dashboard, review call, and quarterly menu re-engineering so drift does not return.
Private Club & Beverage Program
$795/month
Private clubs receive a beverage-program cadence built for committee review: category-level controls, vendor context, and board-ready reporting that keeps beverage decisions visible between reviews.
A focused audit can pay for itself quickly.
$2,500 vs $15,000-$24,000+ = 6-10x first-year return when the underlying variance is present and the recommended changes are implemented.
That is a potential 6–10x first-year return.
Illustrative only; no guarantee of results.
Start the Beverage Profit Audit — $2,500