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Bar-i Liquor Inventory Blog

Top 9 Ways to Improve Bar Profits

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. ...
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10 Tips to Manage Bar Inventory More Effectively

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.
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How to Improve the Accuracy of Your Bar’s Ordering

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 ...
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Why am I Seeing Negative Usage on My Bar Inventory Report?

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 ...
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Myth Busting: Self-Service Bar Inventory Saves You Money

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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Best Way to Integrate Bar-i’s Inventory System with Restaurant365

Restaurant365 is the leading restaurant management platform. They cover a wide range of functionalities, and one of their strengths is the ability to do a lot of different things well.
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Pending Noncompete Legislation May Help Bar Inventory Franchisees

Employers in a wide range of industries use noncompete clauses to suppress wages and restrict their employees’ ability to change jobs. While these clauses provide employers with a powerful tool that gives them a tremendous competitive advantage, these benefits come at the expense of the workers ...
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Bar-i Restaurant365 Integration Step by Step Guide

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
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Best Manager Incentive Plans to Boost Your Bar’s Profits

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
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Integrating Toast POS Sales Data into Bar-I’s Inventory System

How much are you getting out of your bar inventory efforts? Are you simply figuring out what you need to order and calculating your liquor cost, or are you leveraging your inventory data to drive profits? For most bars, their inventory ...
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