Bar-i Liquor Inventory Blog

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

The bar industry has undergone a major shift in recent years. As the public has become more discerning regarding the types of products they desire, many bars and restaurants have responded by catering to the sophisticated tastes of their patrons.

At Bar-i, we believe that your liquor inventory efforts should be much more than busy work for your manager or simply a tool to know what you need to order. We approach inventory in a way that helps ...

Your inventory efforts can be an effective tool to improve your bar’s profitability. At Bar-i, our goal is to help you identify all products that are underperforming and make recommendations that ...

For the last 10 years, Bar-i has been helping bars and restaurants across the country leverage their inventory efforts to maximize profitability. Our Excel-based inventory platform compares precisely ...

This past week (May 1st to be exact) marked the 10-year anniversary of Bar-i. We’re proud to have been partnering with a wide range of bars and restaurants for such a long period of time, and we have learned a tremendous amount about bar inventory through this process. Using all of ...

Bar inventory options are becoming more varied and complicated by the day. With all of these options, identifying the right inventory system for your bar can be overwhelming. Ultimately, the right bar inventory solution for you will depend on what you are trying to accomplish with your ...

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 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 ...