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You want to give your customers great tasting, refreshing beer. You want it to look good, taste good, and...

13 Reasons Your Bar Could Fail a Health Inspection

Here are 13 reasons your bar could fail a health inspection, and how to avoid them. If you’ve worked in...

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21 bar industry blogs to follow When it comes to creating a craft cocktail or running an efficient bar,...

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We’re often asked questions about how to count kegs in inventory. Questions range from “What’s the best method to...

Calculating (and Interpreting) Pour Costs

Calculating inventory usage is important to many different aspects of bar management. Setting pars is a great way to...

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It’s not an easy thing, to run a bar. Bar management takes a serious skill set: hospitality expertise, product...

Draft Beer 12 Ways Boston Bars are Boosting Business on Winter Weeknights

It’s 8pm on a bitterly cold, dark Tuesday evening. You might expect Good Life, a nightclub and bar in...

Beer Flight Gluten Free Bar Drinks

A girl walks into a bar… and she wants a gluten free alcoholic drink. According to a survey from...

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Think your bar inventory might be taking too long? You’ll know after reading these four telltale signs:  A successful...

Running a More Profitable Bar: 3 Actionable Steps to Boost your Beverage Program

Improving your bar with BevSpot There’s no better time than the start of a new year to revamp your...

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Becoming a Better Bar Manager There’s that crazy period, the rush. Your brain is functioning at the speed of...

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Being in the restaurant industry, I had repeatedly heard about the magical land of Portland, a place filled with...

Bar and Restaurant Inventory Management: Calculating Variance

Calculating Variance Product variance, otherwise known as loss or shrinkage, is one of the biggest detractors from a beverage...

Tips and Tricks for Managing an Efficient Bar: Guide to Bar Management

We’re excited to announce the first in our series of BevSpot Tool-books: Tips and Tricks for Managing an Efficient...

How to Price Drinks to Achieve Successful Pour Costs

Fact #1: Knowing how to calculate and interpret pour costs is critical to your bar’s business. Fact #2: Achieving a...

5 Must-Try Restaurants in Boulder, CO

Boulder: Famous for the University of Colorado, a known hippie scene, a typical college town in the middle of...