Bar-i Liquor Inventory Blog

Banquets and private events pose unique considerations for bar inventory. Most bars are doing inventory counts on either a weekly or biweekly basis. The challenge with banquets is that the schedule of events often requires counting a subset of your full inventory. If you’re going to calculate ...

Last year, we launched Bar-i Count, the first product built on our brand new inventory platform. This provided users with a basic version of our counting software:

Most bars are doing inventory to complete their ordering and to calculate their liquor cost. The problem with focusing on these two goals is that it often prevents you from drilling down to evaluate the performance of individual ...

At Bar-i, we’ve performed over 7,000 detailed liquor inventory audits in 25 states. Through this experience, we’ve seen bars approach the counting process in just about every way imaginable. One thing we’ve consistently found is that when bars try to count their inventory at night, it results in ...

The strength of Bar-i’s inventory software is its ability to track your usage down to the serving. All bars are missing some amount of product and if you don’t measure what’s missing, it’s hard to fix this problem. ...

It goes without saying that the restaurant industry has been hit extremely hard by the COVID-19 pandemic. Across the country, most bars and restaurants were forced to shut down for close to two months, causing revenue to disappear entirely during this time. Since reopening, lower capacity has ...

The restaurant industry is no stranger to challenging circumstances. Even before having to navigate the current health pandemic, restaurant owners faced considerable obstacles to running a profitable business. Some of the most pressing issues they must address include:

While counting bar inventory is a tedious task, it is very important. These counts provide you with a lot of important information that will help you run your bar at optimal levels of efficiency and profitability. In particular, your inventory efforts can significantly help you

The benefits of using a sophisticated bar inventory system are very clear. These systems provide a much faster, more efficient process. In addition, when you use a system that provides the accurate data required of level 3 ...