What variance reporting reveals
Most bars run somewhere between 2% and 8% beverage variance. Over a year that is tens of thousands of pounds lost to over-pouring, breakage, theft or untracked transfers. Surfacing the problem is the first step to closing it.
How StockLens calculates variance
Opening stock + purchases − closing stock = actual usage. Sales × recipes = theoretical usage. The gap is your variance. StockLens calculates this automatically and shows it per product, per category and per venue.
Drilling into the numbers
You can filter variance by category, supplier, venue and date range. Persistent offenders are flagged automatically. Click into any product to see the underlying counts, sales and purchases that drove the number.
- Variance in units, pounds and percent
- Per-product, per-category, per-venue views
- Persistent outlier flagging
- Drill-through to source data