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A bar POS quote has four line items, not one price. How to calculate your effective rate — and why the same rate card costs a taproom more than a cocktail bar.
Bar management software does four jobs your POS does not: invoice capture, recipe costing, inventory counts and the reporting that joins cost back to sales.
Nine bar POS systems ranked on tabs, pre-auth, throughput and offline — with every price sourced to the vendor's own site.
On the shore of Lake Superior, Lost Apostle Brewing couldn’t wait out a clunky point-of-sale system. See how the Washburn, Wisconsin brewpub switched to GoTab in the middle of peak season, with in-person training, a kitchen display system that just works and drawers that finally balance.
See how The Blind Horse Restaurant & Winery replaced three point-of-sale systems with GoTab, opsi and Fishbowl to run fine dining, tasting rooms, wine production and events across two Wisconsin locations from one connected platform.
A drink ticket does three jobs at once. Why counting them at the end is the expensive part, and what a live host bar budget has to do instead.
Three groups, one floor, nobody wearing a badge. Why "which party are you with?" fails, and what a group credential really costs you in hardware.
A reservation is a claim on future capacity; a sale is a finished exchange. Why the two never tie out, and what integration has to actually do.
In a tough year for craft beer, Silver Branch Brewing is opening its fourth location. Here's the data — and the community — behind the growth.
Toast Hybrid Tabs is in beta: staff start every tab, at a table, and guests can't preauthorize from their phones. Here's how hybrid ordering works in GoTab, question by question.
GoTab now supports Tap to Pay on iPhone in its iOS POS app, so servers and bartenders can take orders and accept contactless payments on the same iPhone, with no card reader required. Free for the first six months, then $0.10 per transaction.
Four Virginia brewery operators on speed of service, roaming tabs, kitchen bottlenecks, zone menus, memberships and the to-go ask — from a Richmond panel.
Interchange is the same for everyone. What changes at group scale is the markup, and what your card mix does to it.
A queue does not just delay purchases, it cancels them. Where order-ahead clears peak-day lines and where it quietly creates new ones.
Card fees scale with transaction count, not sales. How to work out what a family's five separate card taps actually cost you.
Ben E. Keith's Carrie Collins on why the restaurants winning right now are high touch and high tech, why labor cost now outpaces food cost, and why independent operators trust their food distributor's tech recommendations.
Six operational questions that come up in every taproom — speed of service, roaming tabs, kitchen bottlenecks, zone menus, memberships and the to-go ask.
Two reports from the same platform rarely disagree by accident. The five mechanisms behind it, and how to declare a system of record.
A guest tab that stops at the attraction door costs more than convenience. What has to be true before one tab can follow a family.
Most taprooms know what they sold last night in dollars. Far fewer can say how many ounces left the cooler. Counting kegs by remaining volume, the conversions that make it work, par levels that trigger an 86 — and where a POS stops and brewery software starts.
