Part of the Program Leadership school. Class 3 of 6.
The capability: you decide on dollars and on minutes rather than on percentage.
Prerequisites: Modules 43, 50, 54.
The practice
Recost one cocktail completely — every component, citrus at actual yield, garnish, loss.
Then rank the menu twice, by pour cost and by contribution. The lists will not match.
Then time three drinks honestly and compute contribution per minute.
Then identify the batching candidates — high contribution, slow build.
And check the category mix alongside any pour cost change.
The reference
The two rankings, side by side.
What you are building
The arithmetic that produces the batching decision.
At a set break minutes are the scarce resource — which means a four-minute cocktail at high margin is a poor use of a break minute and a batched version of the same drink is an excellent one, per Module 54.
That is the strongest financial argument for batching in the curriculum and it comes out of the numbers rather than out of a preference.
Verification and boundary
The two rankings and the batching list.
Boundary: financial and tax matters belong with a CPA.