The Bar Patrol Blog

11 Ways to Make Your Restaurant Fail…FAST!
If you’ve been dreaming ever since you were a child about how you could make a restaurant fail quickly, and you’re ready to walk the walk and take

TouchBistro POS Demo & Review [Dashboard Reporting]
Welcome to part II of the TouchBistro POS demo and review, where I’m going to pull the curtain back and give you a behind-the-scenes look

TouchBistro POS Demo & Review [iPad Tutorial]
As I continue to get questions from bar & restaurant owners and managers about the best restaurant POS system to choose, and since I’ve selected

What We Can Learn From Chain Restaurants…
“Pffft…Corporate restaurants” (imagine my best scoffing declaration of disgust)! You want to know how to suck the soul from a perfectly good restaurant and bludgeon its culture

The Top 5 Bar & Restaurant POS Systems For 2019 and Beyond
POS companies suck! If you’re a POS company and that offends you, I’m offended by your offense. Seriously! Where are you when we need you?

How to Start a Kick-Ass Customer Loyalty Program in Your Bar & Restaurant
If you aren’t aware by now that it costs way more to acquire new customers than keep existing ones, then you should be severely flogged

How to Hire the Perfect Bar/Restaurant Employee (10 Interview Questions)
If there’s one thing I’ve learned in all my years of coaching basketball and managing bars it’s this: Summoning energy for yourself to get motivated

How to Determine Pricing For Your Liquor, Beer & Wine
How to Determine Pricing For Your Liquor, Beer & Wine Let’s be clear about something right from the get-go: determining pricing for your beer, liquor

10 Insanely Effective Ways to Increase Your Bar Profits
Before we dive into these powerfully effective methods to help skyrocket your monthly bar profits, I want to clarify the difference between “cost control” and “frugality”,

How to Create a Mega-Profitable Cocktail Menu For Your Bar
Yes, I know that when it comes to running a bar that you have 647 things on your to-do list and you’re not sure which

How to Become a Rockstar Bar Owner/Manager
Back in 2006 a terrible mistake was made when the owner of the bar/club I was working at told me that I was the new

The Top 5 Bar & Liquor Inventory Apps
Here is a list the top 5 bar & liquor inventory apps on the market right now (yes, “best” is a subjective term, but