Bar-i Liquor Inventory Blog

Your bar manager plays a crucial role in the success of your business, possibly even more than you may realize. Take it from us – we’ve seen time and again how a bar manager can impact the success of our clients.

Most bars do inventory in order to address the basic functions of knowing what needs to be ordered each week and calculating liquor cost. At Bar-i, we take the inventory process a step further by measuring product level performance. ...

There’s a famous saying that goes: “There’s nothing certain except for death and taxes.” In reality, they should add a third item to this list: work. Unless you are fortunate enough to be the progeny of Jay Z and Beyoncé, LeBron James, Oprah, or someone else with enough money to allow the next 5 ...

There are several different goals that can be achieved from the bar inventory process. These range from surface level goals such as determining what you need to order to deeper level goals such as obtaining the data necessary to evaluate the performance of your bar.

We recently posted a blog providing tips to help speed up the inventory counting process. Some of these tips were general and apply to all bars, regardless of the inventory system they use. Others were ...

Draft beer has some unique characteristics that make it fundamentally different from the other product categories served at bars (liquor, wine, bottled beer). It’s the only product category where you’re guaranteed to experience

Nobody likes counting inventory. Even our co-owner, Jamie, often jokes about his disdain for counting bottles, and he runs a bar inventory company. Let’s face it – regardless of what you are trying to get out of your inventory efforts, counting bottles is the most tedious and least enjoyable ...

When you walk into a busy bar or restaurant, it’s easy to assume that the establishment is raking in the profits. However, it’s actually much more challenging to run a highly profitable bar than most people ...

At its most basic level, liquor inventory is performed to count how much of each product you have on-hand at your bar so that you can determine what to order. You can take these efforts a step further and use it as a tool to measure the performance your business. By factoring in purchase values ...

The craft beer industry has exploded in recent years, and this has changed the way many bars approach serving draft beer. The old standard saw the majority of bars have 6-8 taps, but it’s now common for many ...