A comparison is a kind of question. Below are the questions we take often, and the mixtures we will not print.
Bring the question before you bring a wish. If you want to know whether a number is unusual in Imereti, say Imereti. If you want a picture for a yearbook, say the page size. If you want to be told you are ahead of the country, another desk may be willing; this one will not invent the country.
The plates we draw are comparison plates. They show a series and a neighbour. They do not show a target invented in a workshop. When a neighbour cannot be found, we write that sentence in the same type as the rest of the study.
If one of the kinds above matches the figures you hold, look next at the engagements and then write to the desk.
Rooms
Occupancy and covers
Night counts and restaurant covers for inns and houses in Imereti, set against houses of similar size and season, never against a coastal August average unless you are yourself a coastal house.
Cellars
Yield and cost per litre
Harvest volume and cellar cost for cooperatives and small bottlers, with frost years and new plantings marked as breaks rather than smoothed into a moral.
Counters
Waiting days and staff hours
Permit waits, staff hours per bed, and similar operational counts for offices and houses that already keep a book, compared with peers who will share their own book.
Ledgers
Unit cost against a trade table
Cost per unit drawn from a client ledger and set beside a published trade table only when the unit is the same unit. A bed is not a room. A litre in bulk is not a labelled bottle.
Years
Year-on-year, marked as a mirror
Last year’s own figure can be drawn, but we label it a mirror, not a benchmark. A neighbour is still required if you wish to say the change is unusual.
Refusals
What we will not mix
National averages that hide region, peak-month figures used to judge a winter, and any set in which half the neighbours are guessed. We will also refuse a league table of our own clients.
This site stores a small preference if you accept or refuse optional cookies. Essential cookies keep the pages readable. You may refuse without losing the ability to request a comparison. Details sit on the cookies notice.
