It’s another busy Friday night. The happy hour usuals just left, and now the dinner crowd are beginning to file in. Your bar ran out of a few ingredients for the staple fan favorites during happy hour. You thought those got ordered this week, but you can’t find the paper you wrote it all down on. It must have been lost in the shuffle of taking inventory earlier in the week. You had to stop and start it again a number of times, on account of tending to a customer complaint and a spill in the front. All the while, you’re wondering how to get extra foot traffic in the door from Monday to Thursday so you can stop worrying about growth numbers month to month. None of that matters right this second though. There’s some paperwork you need to take care of for your new hires. Turnover has been high lately. Your staff feels overworked and overwhelmed with the tasks that end up on their shoulders. It’s a whirlwind.
Sound familiar?
In an extremely volatile industry, owning and operating a bar and restaurant can be a massive headache. With so much overhead cost and in house details to keep your attention on, one small accounting mistake can set your business back. As a result, growth becomes difficult. With such a need to micromanage your business, focusing on doing the things necessary to grow your bottom line can take an incidental backseat.
Things like events, promos, themed nights, live performers, loyalty programs, happy hours, and marketing are all incredibly important, but also incredibly time consuming. Scheduling, scouting, developing, and putting these things together takes a ton of time and effort. Time and effort you, as an owner or operator, likely don’t have. With taking care of everything else, it can be a real struggle to find time for that. You can pass it off to your staff, but that also increases their workload, and puts a burden on them that they aren’t paid to do. Hiring an outside event coordinator also doesn’t help much. They’re costly, and going out of house for something else just creates more headache. The solution for most bars has seemed like a pipe dream for decades. Something to give a tangible fix on growing bottom lines so you can focus on everything else, all in-house. Saving money spent, increasing money made, and something to make the customer experience easier. That pipe dream is now reality. It’s BarMinder.
The BarMinder system offers businesses a unique opportunity to both bring their back of house inventory operations into the digital world, and offer a comprehensive menu of their spirits and other alcoholic beverages. With a brand new offering that provides any and all customers the opportunity to see everything behind your bar (even what’s not visible) just with a tap of their phone, the BarMinder system is here to bridge the technology gap between bars and their customers. The BarMinder Inventory System also tracks every bottle from when it enters the establishment until it goes into the trash. By combining data from the spouts about every drop being poured with real-time counts of every bottle in storage, BarMinder lets you never have to count another bottle of liquor. Ever.
The BarMinder menu experience is a further addition to the system that is helping bars and restaurants modernize their operations. Not only does it improve sales for locations carrying the menu feature, but it enhances the customer experience. Too often, bars get lost in the shuffle of their backbar, and a bottle that a customer is excited to come in and try may be gone or empty, and that customer relationship suffers as a result. With a complete look at your bar and what’s in stock at all times, and being able to offer that to the customer, that potential disconnect is removed. In the digital age, having an all encompassing companion rids of a massive burden that generations past had to shoulder, and that can only be found with the BarMinder digital inventory system.
Just slap a sticker to the neck of the bottle and check it into the system, your inventory is complete and provided to you on the hub on location or anywhere in the world on your phone. No more incorrect counts, no more hours wasted on counting bottles, you and your staff can focus on caring for customers, and BarMinder will let you know when there’s something that can be done to improve your operations. Reduce shrinkage, reduce overhead, and make more money with BarMinder.
