Bar-i Liquor Inventory Blog

This three-minute video blog explains how you can capture an additional 3-6% of your bar's beverage sales as profits by significantly reducing shrinkage and turning some of those losses into retail sales.

There is a commonly held conception that bars are highly profitable since there is a relatively large markup (and therefore profit margin) on alcohol sales. But in reality, nothing could be farther from the truth. Alcohol sales only paint a small portion of the profitability picture for bars. ...

Bar inventory is one of the more tedious tasks your managers must perform. It’s slow and time consuming, but bars still take inventory because they realize that it can be quite valuable when performed correctly using state-of-the-art bar inventory software.

At Bar-i, we’ve performed over 30,000 bar inventory audits in over 40 states during the last 15 years, and this broad experience has given us a good look at the way most bars do their ordering. Quite simply, most bars don’t do a great job managing this aspect ...

At Bar-i, we often see a phenomenon we call the “Jesus pour” when we first start working with new clients. To be clear, the “Jesus pour” is a term unique to our internal Bar-i vocabulary. You won’t hear it when you work with other bar inventory providers. To ...

One of the most common comments we hear when talking to potential new clients is that they don’t think full-service bar inventory services are worth the money. These bar owners often push back at the need to pay a monthly service fee in addition to the software fees. After all, they can just use ...

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R365 is integrated with Bar-i which allows you to increase the accuracy of your beverage inventory by looking up items using their existing barcodes and weighing open items using Bluetooth scales

While bar inventory can be a very effective tool to boost profits, it requires you to use your data to make adjustments to your processes that will