About a year after bartending at a bar and nightclub in San Francisco (15 years ago now), a terrible mistake was made and I was offered the position of bar manager. The position opened up when our recently fired bar manager, Kevin, felt that guiding cocaine into his nostrils was more important than guiding the …
THE RESTAURANT MANAGEMENT MYTH Let me ask you this, and be honest: do you love telling people how busy and chaotic your life is? Really think about it. Do you tell them how you only sleep five hours per night and can barely find time to comb your hair and choke down a Pop Tart, let alone run …
The answer to this question is “Yes”. Bam! Article finished. Hope you enjoyed. See you next time. Ok, just kidding. About the article being done, not about happy hour. I’m not fence-riding this topic, and I’m not going to string you along and wait until the end to give you the answer. Yes, you should …
Become a bar inventory expert, increase your profits. Simple as that.
Without a proper bar inventory system in place, the double-whammy effect will cost your bar $1,000’s.
5 TURN-KEY STRATEGIES TO INCREASE RESTAURANT SALES IMMEDIATELY I’ve noticed something odd about myself: whenever an owner or manager asks me how to increase restaurant sales, I find myself cringing and tightening up, but I couldn’t figure out why for the longest time. After all, it’s a perfectly reasonable request, to want to increase your …
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THE MAGIC OF SYSTEMIZING In this article, not only am I going to show you how you can learn to read a restaurant profit/loss statement like a boss, but I have created a restaurant profit/loss template that you will absolutely LOVE and can use for your own bar/restaurant to manage your finances. It has everything …
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BAR INVENTORY SIMPLIFIED If you’ve come here in order to learn how to count stuff properly, you’re in the right place. In this article I’m going to give you the simple 6-step process you need in order to count and master your weekly and monthly bar inventory like a pro, including how to easily figure …
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THE COST PERCENTAGE MYTH If I had a nickel for every time someone asked me how to lower their bar and food cost percentage, I could have purchased my bourbon Slushee machine by now, but since nobody gives me nickels for such questions, I’ll have to be content with making my own Basil Hayden Slurpees …
I can sense your skepticism right through the computer screen: “Glassware? Really? Glassware is going to increase my bar profits? Come on!” Hang on to your caboose there, my friends. I know that very few bar owners and managers put much thought into their glassware beyond how cool it looks, but you’d better start, because I …
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