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The automatic propagation of an ingredient price change through every recipe that contains that ingredient. Cost cascading ensures that when a supplier raises prices, every affected spec's pour cost reflects the new reality instantly — without manual recalculation.
Most bars cost recipes once, when they're first built. Then supplier prices change. Minimum wages rise, affecting house prep labor costs. A seasonal ingredient goes out of availability and gets substituted with something more expensive. None of these changes make it into the recipe costs, because manually updating every affected spec is too time-consuming.
The result: pour cost calculations that are months out of date, pricing decisions made on stale data, and margin erosion that's invisible until the monthly P&L looks wrong.
Cost cascading requires a recipe system where ingredients are linked — not copy-pasted values. When 'Maker's Mark bourbon' has a price update in your ingredient library, every recipe using Maker's Mark recalculates automatically. This is the difference between a recipe database and a spreadsheet.
methodus cascades cost changes automatically. Update an ingredient price once and every affected spec recalculates instantly — no manual recipe-by-recipe updates needed.
As Purchased vs Edible Portion — the cost difference between what you buy and what you use.
The percentage of revenue spent on drink ingredients.
Calculating the true cost of every ingredient in a dish or drink.
Using documented recipe specifications to generate accurate purchasing orders.
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