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A bar can hit its sales target and still lose margin through stock that was purchased but never converted into recorded revenue. The warning sign is often a persistent gap between actual cost of goods sold and theoretical cost of goods sold.
That gap is inventory variance. It can come from overpouring, waste or theft, but bad stock counts, outdated recipe costs and incorrect POS mapping can create the same result. Before blaming the team, the numbers themselves must be teste
