Catch Bar Pour Cost Creep Before It Drinks Your Profit
Liquor cost creeping from 20% to 26% is silent theft — over-pours, giveaways or worse. Compare weekly usage against sales and alert on variance by category.
- 1
Count Weekly
Log bottle levels by category each week.
- 2
Pull the Sales
Import the week's liquor sales from the POS.
- 3
Compute the Variance
Add a
Codenode comparing theoretical usage to actual depletion. - 4
Alert on Creep
Add a
Slacknode flagging categories over the variance threshold. - 5
Activate and Test
Activate the workflow with test counts. Confirm variance computes and alerts.
Frequently asked questions
What's normal variance?
2–3% covers spills and training — sustained 5%+ in one category is a conversation with a name on it.
Does measuring change behavior?
Announcing weekly variance tracking alone typically recovers a point of pour cost immediately.
Automatically Send Every Stripe Payment to Slack in Real Time
Connect Stripe and Slack in n8n: each new payment is captured and sent straight to Slack, in real time and completely hands-off.
n8nStripeSlack
Automatically Send Every Stripe Payment to Discord in Real Time
This n8n workflow watches Stripe for a new payment and automatically post a message to a Discord channel. Set it once and it runs 24/7.
n8nStripeDiscord
Automatically Send Every Stripe Payment to Airtable in Real Time
Connect Stripe and Airtable in n8n: each new payment is captured and sent straight to Airtable, in real time and completely hands-off.
n8nStripeAirtable
Keep every recipe free
FlowRecipesHub is free and always will be. If a workflow saved you time, chip in what you like — it helps us keep the lights on and build the next batch of automations for everyone.
Secure checkout via Paddle · one-time, no account needed