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 ...
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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.
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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 ...
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Let’s face it, counting inventory is a truly miserable task. We always joke about the fact that we don’t even like doing it and we’re a bar inventory company. ...
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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 ...
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Last year, we launched Bar-i Count, the first product built on our brand new inventory platform. This provided users with a basic version of our counting software:
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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 ...
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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 ...
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The strength of Bar-i’s inventory software is its ability to track your usage down to the serving. All bars are missing some amount of product and if you don’t measure what’s missing, it’s hard to fix this problem. ...
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