1. Cost of sales
GP% by category. Flags lines below target.
Most pubs lose money in four quiet places.
Margins that don’t match the prices. Hours that cost more than they take. Bills nobody has checked. Supplier prices that creep up between orders.
Lilybank’s Pub Profit Check uses AI to read your till, rota, invoices and bills — then a person (Tom, who runs Minted on Byres Road) checks every pound before you see it. You get a two-page report with the sums shown.
2. Rota vs sales
Hour-by-hour staff cost against takings.
3. Bills
Energy, card, pay TV, waste, phone — outliers and end dates.
4. Supplier prices
Free-of-tie: keg and case rises you didn’t agree.
Pilot — first 3 Glasgow pubs
Free
Testimonial + anonymised numbers in return. Two-week turnaround.
Paid offer
£295 + 15%
Upfront, plus 15% of verified first-year savings. Free-of-tie add-on: supplier watch £39/month.
How we run Minted
Minted Ice Cream, 262 Byres Road — Tom’s own shop. Same tools pubs already use.
- Every weekday: AI pulls the Clover till and RotaCloud rota into a morning brief — take vs target, labour %, top sellers and rota — emailed before the shop opens.
- Soft days show up: when labour climbs on a quiet day, it is on the brief the next morning (for example a Tuesday that took £412 against an £855 target with labour at 80.8%).
- Margins and suppliers: COGS ranking from till prices and recipes; Crolla, Park Farm, Galeta and Booker invoices reconciled in Xero; price and carriage changes chased.
- Bills and prices: card, energy and supplier contracts researched before anything is changed. Pricing plans (including a two-scoop test) are modelled from live till data — we do not invent savings.
No invented £ savings. No insurance advice. No energy brokering. Confirmed cash savings claimed here: £0 until Number Check clears a figure.
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West End, Partick and Southside independents first. No obligation.