stocktaker

[wayneepoos]

How does my stocktaker know how much beer is left in a keg and how many shots left in a spirit bottle just by looking at them?
please someone help as I am losing stock. many thanx

[beryllium]

How many pints in a keg?
How many 25cl, 35cl or 50cl shots in a bottle?

[beryllium]

If you're loosing stock surely you need to look at staff? and perhaps they need to know that you are aware of how many pints per keg and how many shots per bottle = the take?

[BBWCHATT]

Or are they giving free drinks to all of their friends?

[beryllium]

my thoughts exactly BB ;-)

[BBWCHATT]

You know, you could send in an observer - someone they don't know - and let them find out for you.

[natalie_1982]

I would say your stocktaker knows how much is in the bottle / keg just by looking at it because it is his trade and is something you would learn over time.

As for the stock going missing, I would mention to your staff that somewhere stock is going missing and that you will now keep a log of drinks that are poured accidentally so that the stock take will tally. That way your staff will not think you are accusing them, but whoever (assuming somebody is being naughty) is pinching what is not there should be aware that you are on to them.

[jr1312]

Shots in a bottle depend on bottle size. Most shots are 25ml so in a normal 70cl there are 28 shots. In a magnum (1.5 litre) there are 60 shots. Stock takers normally measure them on tenths of a bottle, e.g 0.5 which can be done just by looking at the bottle and "guestimating".

Barrels can't be done this way. Each gallon has 8 pints so a normal 11 gallon barrel has 88 pints in it. The stock taker should either have a weighing device that attachs to the side of the barrel and measures how many gallons are left or you can tap the side of the barrell and when the noise changes that's where the beer is up to and so you can tell how many gallons are left.

The option to stop theft is daily stock takes. Measure how much is in the bottle/barrel at the start of the night, check it at the end and then see how many have been sold through the till. The other thing staff do is ring a drink in initially and then void it off and take the money after the customer has left the bar. If a member of staff has a lot of voids or no sales then they could be taking money. They can also use aids to keep a tally of how much money they need to take at the end of the night, e.g. a stack of rubber bands. 1 band = �5 extra in the till (if that makes sense).

Your other option is to bring in a friend that the staff don't know and get them to stand at the end of the bar like a normal customer and watch the bar staff. Just don't acknowledge them at all, get them to pay for their drinks as normal.

[jacko50]

when i had to run an army bar there was a plastic measuring device for telling how many shots were left in a bottle,you just stood the bottle up the right way and put the device to it and read off the scale ,i am sure we weighed the kegs with a special scale ,this also told me exactly what was left in the keg. i tend to agree with others though and would look at my staff ,check that they are not giving credit and not collecting the money. i recently was involved in just this type of thing, a customer had credit on a saturday night ,the barman left the list of drinks on the side of the bar and was off for a week ,another barman found the list and did not know what it was for ,he gave it to the manager who has since found out that half the staff were giving credit without permission and then forgetting to collect the money, the punters in the mean time thought they were on to a good thing.

[lou37]

we have had problems with stock taking/control where i work, i now stock take the bottles of spirits by weighing them and entering the weights in a xls page that converts it in to a stock taking figure ie 0.5 it took a few hours to work out but once done your stock taking will be so accurate. here is the equasion for you, you need to weigh a full un opened bottle and a 25cl shot then with the amount of 25cl shots in a bottle 28 in a 70cl 30 in a 75cl and 60 in a 1.5 litre you can work this out
weight of Part bottle - minus glass weight divided by the shot weight = the number of actual shots left in the bottle
1 divided by the amount of shots in the bottle Ie 28, 30 or 60 multiplied by the actual number of shots left in the bottle this will give you a stock taking figure
Sounds really long winded but its so accurate