Essays.
Where we think out loud. What we believe about running a bar, what we think is wrong with most of the software sold to one, and why we build the way we do. If you want to know who you'd be working with, start here.
Essays
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The second pile of work
Your software finds the gap and leaves you two piles of work: work out what happened, then fix it by hand. The second pile shouldn't be yours.
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Everyone can calculate pour cost. The hard part is knowing it changed.
The arithmetic is four numbers and a minute. Nobody's pour cost problem is the arithmetic.
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Your register counts drinks, not bottles
Your register rang up every drink tonight and never once rang up a bottle. That gap is where inventory drifts.
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You're counting bottles. You sell ounces.
Your system says you're out. You know there's an open bottle behind the bar. The count isn't wrong. It just can't answer the question you're asking.
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Your bar is not a list
A list is alphabetical. Your bar isn't. Counting means translating one into the other, after close, which is why it barely happens.
