The bar industry is notorious for slim margins and "mysterious" losses. For a decade, Bar-i has partnered with hundreds of operators to find out where that money goes. What we discovered is startling: most bars aren't losing money because of bad cocktails; they’re losing it ...
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 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 ...
Most bars have experienced a bouncing liquor cost on occasion. This refers to a situation where your liquor cost varies by more than 2 percentage points from period to period. A bouncing liquor cost is generally due ...
For bars and restaurants, very few tasks are more tedious than counting bottles during the inventory process. It’s mindless, boring work that takes hours to complete each week. No one on your staff enjoys doing this.
Bar-i Speed Count and Bar-i Complete, the first phase of our new software updates, were released in late 2020 and have been in use with our clients for a while. This month, we’re rolling out ...
