You hear it a lot – “pour cost” – when you talk to bar owners about how their bar is performing from an inventory management – a “shrinkage” – perspective. Running a bar where there is no shrinkage involves your bartenders pouring exactly what they’re supposed to be pouring into every drink they make. There […]
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Where Your Data is Hosted (Stored) MATTERS!
Where your data is stored is important when you realize that the Liquor Inventory Management System’s data includes not just your product mix and product demand, but also your sales data (because the system must have the sales data to compare usage against). Is this really information that you trust other people to have access […]
Inventory Tracking – In-House vs Contracted Services
When it comes to Liquor Inventory Management Systems, you have two broad categories from which to choose: an in-house system – such as TavernTrak – where you purchase the equipment and provide the labor to run the system or a contracted inventory service, where a crew of one or more people comes into your bar […]