How Scales Work — A Practical Example
Say you buy beer in 1/2 BBL kegs (that’s 15.5 gallons, or 1,984 ounces). Your POS has a button for a 16oz draft pour. Each time that button gets pressed, your bartender pours 16oz out of a keg that holds 1,984oz. That pour is 16 / 1,984 = 0.008065 of the keg. So you’d set the scale to 0.008065. Now when Garde sees 100 presses of that button, it calculates that you should have used 0.8065 kegs. That’s your theoretical usage — the number you compare against what’s actually left in the walk-in.Bottles are simple. If you’re selling beer by the bottle or wine by the bottle, and the product is set up with a unit of “bottle,” the scale is just 1. Scales other than 1 are for draft beer, wine by the glass, liquor pours, and soda from BIBs.
Scale Reference Charts
The charts below cover the most common container sizes and pour sizes. You can also view and copy these values from this Google Spreadsheet.For worked examples showing how to apply these scales, see: Some Examples of PMIX Mapping Scales