BOOZE

Making The Best Of A Bar Situation

Streamlining your operations is even more critical at the bar! Bartenders work with some of your center’s highest margin offerings, from sodas to Tequila Sunrises, so it’s crucial to shell those out effectively.

The first step is to optimize your bar layout, keeping the most often-used beverages near the front of the bar. If your bartender has to run to the back of the bar every time they need to enter a cocktail in the POS system, you’re losing time and money on every drink you serve!

Properly Train Staff

Your staff is the key to your food operations’ success. They are responsible for preparing, serving, and handling food safely and efficiently. Therefore, you must train your staff to streamline your food operations and keep them sanitary. You can use online courses, videos, manuals, or apps to teach your staff the best practices for food safety, hygiene, customer service, and waste management. You can also use quizzes, inspections, or feedback to evaluate your staff’s performance and identify areas for improvement.

Automate Your Tasks

Automation can help you save time, money, and energy on your food operations. You can use machines or software to automate tasks that are repetitive, tedious, or prone to human error. For example, you can use a dishwasher or a sanitizer to clean your dishes and utensils more quickly and thoroughly than by hand. You can use a fryer or oven for cooking your food more consistently and evenly than on a stove. You can use an app or a website to automate your ordering.

Mike Fernandez is a freelance contributor on all things regarding food, booze, and fun. Growing up in his family’s restaurant business fueled his passion for good eats and tasty treats. By day Mike works in business development for IBI, by night he scours south Florida for the latest trends in food, drinks, and recreation.

What’s being offered at your bar? If you’ve got a menu of 30 cocktails and three beers, guests have no choice but to put your bartender to work. With a more diverse offering, like local or craft beers, bartenders can quickly serve more customers and move on to the next guest.

There are even stock tracking systems made just for drinks that calculate precisely how much is being served, leaving you with less inventory mess at the end of the month.•

FEATURING THE 40 FRAME GAME!

Rethink Your Scoring System Investments Already Made-AND in the Future

Multiple Scoring Upgrade Options

If you simply want to keep the investment you already made running, we may be able to help with a combination of new, used, refurbished, or repair on many scoring and machine components. We have been offering support to maintain your current investment for over 12 years.

TouchDesk Management System

If you have Legacy Scoring (Brunswick AS-80/90, Frameworx or AMF Magic Score, Accuscore, Boss) you can upgrade the Management System to TouchDesk. This is a great option if your scoring is still doing the job, but you worry about the management system lasting through another season. System is CDE/BLS Compatible, offers POS options, and more. Once purchased, you can upgrade scoring - one pair at a time.

INTRODUCING THE REVOLUTIONARY SCORING CONCEPT

TOUCH SCORE 3 W/TOUCHDESK III

New Scoring Graphics & HD Flatscreens, and Digital Signage at the SAME TIME!

● All new scoring including, cameras and machine interface equipment.

● Touch Score 3 lets you upgrade one pair at a time. Manage both your old and new scoring with Touch Desk MGT System. Divide your center into "premium" and "standard" lanes, and upgrade more pairs at your own pace.

● Use Standard Computing Technology. TS3 uses standard Windows PCs on the lanes, counters, and back offices, making your scoring computers relevant and inexpensive to repair or replace. Never pay manufacturer's prices to repair proprietary computers. TS3 also connects directly to any flat screens without converters and auto scales to resolution of screens for easy upgrading.