Bars leak margin one over-pour at a time, and most drink prices were set by copying the bar down the road. This calculator costs a drink properly: bottle price and pour size give you the spirit cost, add mixers and garnish, and you get the pour cost percentage against your selling price, the single number bar managers live by.
Pour cost % = total drink cost divided by selling price, times 100. Spirit cost per drink = (bottle cost divided by bottle size) times pour size. Most bars target an 18-24% pour cost.
| Bottle cost | 2400 ₹ |
| Bottle size | 750 ml |
| Pour size per drink | 60 ml |
| Mixers & other ingredients per drink | 25 ₹ |
| Garnish & consumables per drink | 10 ₹ |
| Selling price (pre-tax) | 495 ₹ |
| Target pour cost % | 20 % |
Most programmes target 18-24% overall: spirits and cocktails toward the low end, beer in the mid-20s, wine often higher. Blended across the menu, landing near 20% is a healthy bar. Above 28% consistently means over-pouring, theft, or under-pricing.
The calculator assumes perfect pours. Reality includes over-pours, spillage, comps and unrecorded drinks. A 2-3 point gap between theoretical and actual pour cost is normal; a bigger gap is your signal to weigh bottles at closing and tighten free pouring.
Run this calculator per component and add the spirit costs together into the mixers field, or treat the largest pour as the base spirit and sum the rest. For a standard 60ml two-spirit cocktail, costing each 30ml component separately keeps it accurate.
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