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Restaurant Management, Bar Inventory

Elevate Your Restaurant Inventory for 2024

Restaurants and bars starting Q1 with a good inventory management system is crucial for ensuring profits and overall success. Effective inventory management allows establishments..

Bar Inventory, Restaurant Technology, Catering Operations

How to Cost Bar Packages for Profitability

With event season at its height, bar and restaurant management should be going over their pricing of bar packages. The importance of correctly pricing these packages cannot be..

Liquor Cost, Bar Inventory

Nightclub Inventory Guide | Everything You Need To Know

In the dynamic world of restaurant and bar accounting management, one crucial aspect that demands constant attention is cash flow.

Restaurant Management, Restaurant Trends

Modern Restaurant Marketing | How to Utilize Menu Engineering

In the highly competitive world of the restaurant and bar industry, menu engineering is a crucial aspect that owners and managers cannot afford to overlook. A well-designed and..

Liquor Cost, Wine Knowledge

How to Set Wine Prices For Maximum Profits

Are you a restaurant or bar manager looking to maximize your profits? One of the key aspects to consider is how you price the wine on your menu. In this blog, we will guide you..

Restaurant Management, Catering Operations

Catering Inventory Complete Guide

When it comes to running a catering exclusive business, one of the most crucial aspects is keeping track of inventory. It may seem like a tedious task, but accurately tracking..

Restaurant Management, Bar Inventory

Elevate Your Restaurant Inventory for 2024

Restaurants and bars starting Q1 with a good inventory management system is crucial for ensuring profits and overall success. Effective inventory management allows establishments..

Bar Inventory, Restaurant Technology, Catering Operations

How to Cost Bar Packages for Profitability

With event season at its height, bar and restaurant management should be going over their pricing of bar packages. The importance of correctly pricing these packages cannot be..

Liquor Cost, Bar Inventory

Nightclub Inventory Guide | Everything You Need To Know

In the dynamic world of restaurant and bar accounting management, one crucial aspect that demands constant attention is cash flow.

Restaurant Management, Bar Inventory

How to Get Rid of Excess Inventory

When a restaurant or bar has excess inventory, it causesfood and liquor costs to balloon and reduces profitability. Excess inventory, or overstock, can pile up when you purchase..

Bar Inventory

Tips for Taking Restaurant Special Events Inventory

If your restaurant offers space for larger groups, special events, or even full building rentals then you might have struggled to successfully track the goods being sold to these..

Restaurant Management, Bar Inventory

8 Most Important Data Points to Track Behind the Bar

Being a bar manager requires a lot more math and brain power than you may think.

"This isn't what I signed up for!" you might be shouting over a pile of spreadsheets and..

Restaurant Management, Bar Inventory

Elevate Your Restaurant Inventory for 2024

Restaurants and bars starting Q1 with a good inventory management system is crucial for ensuring profits and overall success. Effective inventory management allows establishments..

Restaurant Management, Restaurant Trends

Modern Restaurant Marketing | How to Utilize Menu Engineering

In the highly competitive world of the restaurant and bar industry, menu engineering is a crucial aspect that owners and managers cannot afford to overlook. A well-designed and..

Restaurant Management, Catering Operations

Catering Inventory Complete Guide

When it comes to running a catering exclusive business, one of the most crucial aspects is keeping track of inventory. It may seem like a tedious task, but accurately tracking..

Restaurant Management, Restaurant Operations

Restaurant Taxes Guide | Everything You Need to Know

Today Backbar will dive deep into the world of restaurant and bar taxes. If you're a restaurant or bar owner, you know that navigating the complex landscape of taxes can be..

Restaurant Management, Bar Inventory

How to Get Rid of Excess Inventory

When a restaurant or bar has excess inventory, it causesfood and liquor costs to balloon and reduces profitability. Excess inventory, or overstock, can pile up when you purchase..

Restaurant Management, Restaurant Operations

How to Successfully Run Payroll for Your Restaurant

As a successful restaurant is built upon the hard work of several different staff members. From Managers to service staff to chefs to dishwashers, all these positions serve an..

Bartender Training

Bitters Add a Dash of Flair to Your Cocktails (A Guide)

Long before Tylenol, twenty-five dollar copays, and debates on whether masks actually work (they do), people turned to alcohol as a one-stop solution for their ailments...

Bartender Training

The History of the Mule Cocktail

Mules (also known as bucks) are cocktails made with ginger beer or ginger ale, citrus juice, and any kind of spirit. Easy to make and easy to sip, these are some of the most..

Bartender Training

Essential Cocktail Equipment For Bartenders

Whether you're a novice bartender, or a seasoned pro looking for a quick refresher, this cocktail equipment guide is helpful for anyone that makes drinks behind the bar. 

A..

Bartender Training

Resume Tips for Bartenders and Servers

Bartender Training

The Most Important Bar Tools for Bartenders

Like any craft, bartending requires certain tools to do the job right. There are plenty of cool gadgets and delicate tools like smoke infusers or garnish tweezers that a bartender..

Bartender Training

How to Make Simple Syrup for Cocktails

Liquor Cost, Wine Knowledge

How to Set Wine Prices For Maximum Profits

Are you a restaurant or bar manager looking to maximize your profits? One of the key aspects to consider is how you price the wine on your menu. In this blog, we will guide you..

Wine Knowledge, Restaurant Trends

Take a Sip of These 2023 Wine Trends

Wine lovers are showing up more than ever. With the ever-growing catalog of wine options ranging in color, flavor, sweetness, ABV, and price point, wine is setting trends of its..

Wine Knowledge, Restaurant Trends

Exciting Wine Trends for 2022 [With Data]

The wine world is like the universe, vast and ever expanding. Its rich history is fascinating and the modern wine world is innovative and engaged in making the world a more..

Wine Knowledge, Restaurant Trends

Restaurant Wine Trends to Watch in 2021

This past year has been a trying one for the wine industry. In California, wine makers were again besieged and burnt by a terrible wildfire season in California. And of course,..

Wine Knowledge

How to Sell More Wine With Your To-Go Orders

The service industry has successfully pivoted to delivery and take out in an effort drum up steady business—but aside from promoting your snacks and bites, it's time to include..

Wine Knowledge

Wine and Drink Trends You'll See in Fall 2020

We've already discussed some drink predictions for 2020, but consumer needs have shifted dramatically in the last few months. As the fall season approaches, we're seeing the..

Liquor Cost, Bar Inventory

Nightclub Inventory Guide | Everything You Need To Know

In the dynamic world of restaurant and bar accounting management, one crucial aspect that demands constant attention is cash flow.

Liquor Cost, Wine Knowledge

How to Set Wine Prices For Maximum Profits

Are you a restaurant or bar manager looking to maximize your profits? One of the key aspects to consider is how you price the wine on your menu. In this blog, we will guide you..

Liquor Cost

Understanding Inventory Variance in Your Bar (and How to Fix It)

Maybe the first time you learned about shrinkage was from that episode of Seinfeld, but today we're going to be talking about a different kind of shrinkage. 

Liquor Cost

Factors That Impact Liquor Costs

Do your liquor costs keep creeping up and you don't know where the additional costs are coming from? Chances are they are right under your nose and you can actually take control..

Liquor Cost

How to Price Draft and Bottled Beer

"Come on in!  The price (can be) right!"  Customers don't want to come to your bar thinking they're playing The Price Is Right when it comes to your beer prices. 

Liquor Cost

What is the average liquor cost for bars and restaurants? [With Video]

Who knew running a successful bar and restaurant would require so much math?

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