Bar-i Liquor Inventory Blog

At Bar-i, our approach to bar inventory is to calculate the usage of every product you carry down to the serving in order to identify precisely how much is missing. While the scales we use to count inventory for ...

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 ...

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 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

Everyone hates counting liquor inventory. It’s one of the most tedious aspects of running a bar. As a result, you should have an innate desire to complete this process as fast as possible without ...

There’s no hard-and-fast rule regarding the ideal frequency of bar inventory counts. This must be determined by the unique needs of your bar and the goals you’re looking to achieve from the inventory process. That being said, if you want to

If you’re considering upgrading your liquor inventory system, it’s important to first think about the goals you would like to achieve out of the inventory process. This will help you narrow down your options to focus on the solutions that address your specific goals.

At Bar-i, we often jokingly say that we’re a bar inventory company that doesn’t like doing inventory. While this statement is made in jest, there is a grain of truth to it. We really enjoy the vast majority of our job, but we’d be lying if we didn’t admit that the process of