You can get your cocktail menu completely costed out and up to date in less than five minutes. Here's how:
Drop a month of relevant invoices into Chat/Claude. Be thorough. Liquor, mixers, juices. Bonus points if your Drive or email is already connected. Don't forget to add the invoices for your mixers and juices.
Add your cocktail recipes. You do have your cocktail recipes, right? RIGHT?
Drop in your menu so it knows what you're charging per cocktail.
The Pmix is the only report you have to run for this. Strictly speaking, you don't have to. (But do it anyway, because it will 4x the value of this task.)
Tell Claude/Chat to cost out your cocktail menu, point out any interesting takeaways, and highlight opportunities for improvement. If you set it up right, you'll have pure gold in less time than it takes to shake a margarita. You may start crying when you remember the hours you spent doing this by hand in Google Sheets. Never again, my friend.
Next level
Give it your program goals. E.g., "I want 16% cost on my cocktail program." If you want to step it up, ask it what industry-standard ranges are for a concept like yours, and either cheer or take a sip of that margarita.
For another level up, tell it to compare the prices on your cocktail menu to comparable restaurants in your town and see how you stack up.
Remember that Pmix you uploaded? Now it's time to get the weighted average of your cocktail menu. It's one thing to look at your list and say, "Most of my cocktails are at goal." If the Espresso Martini is running at 28% and it's your number-one-selling cocktail, you've got to fix that.
One more. If you're anything like me, your recipe book needed an update. My brain went "Oh damn, I'll have to get to it later," and then I stopped. "Hey Claude, can you just make all those updates for me, please?" Boom.
That's how you cost out your entire cocktail program in less than five minutes.
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