In the nearly 20 years I have been doing monthly beverage inventories, I have never been so impressed with anything to help with inventories as I have been with your AccuBar product. I used to delegate the process out, because it can be so tedious and frustrating. With your product, I do the inventory myself, quickly and accurately. No dread at all. It’s easy and I think a very good value. Has already paid for itself in just piece of mind (accuracy of inventory). Thank you very much.

I would like you to know that I am very grateful for the acquisition of the AccuBar Handhelds and their uses at the Caribe Hilton. The acquisition of these handhelds for inventory purposes has been one of the best purchases we have made in many years. The AccuBar inventory system has been a considerable asset to the hotel and has helped us significantly reduce the costs of beverage. In addition, it has made the month end closing a much simpler and faster process. In fact, as recently as last month, an internal audit was made in the Hotel and the Inventory section of the audit obtained an A+ score, making the Caribe Hilton inventory section one of the bests in the region. In today’s fast paced, deadline oriented work environments, this handhelds are a convenient and very easy to use tool that makes the whole inventory process a simple and quick experience. I am very confident that we will keep using the AccuBar handhelds which, as a matter of fact, will me expanded to the Food, Supply, and Receiving areas of the hotel beginning in July, 2007. Thank you very much.

Working with AccuBar is like having an accountant 24 hr-7 days a week on call. It gives full trust in a very expensive wine inventory and is on call as we wish.

We have just opened another Blue Fish location in Houston, Texas. Once I placed an opening liquor order and the order arrived I felt that there is something that I forgot to order!! The AccuBar system! How could I forget. I immediately picked up the phone and placed an order. For almost 6 years we have used this system and utilized it to its fullest. It is the only system on the market now, which integrates with the back of the house and Aloha restaurant software. Something I must have! The system works well without any major problems or issues. Every time I have called with a question or a problem, it has been handled to my fullest expectations. After using AccuBar i am not sure how you are able to run a full size bar with over 200 items without full inventory. Just be careful, once you try it and use it for few weeks you cannot go back! 6 locations and that is the only way I can manage all of them. Also you can use it to inventory anything with the bar code. Thanks AccuBar.

I’ve been a fan of AccuBar for years, and I love what it does for Margaritaville. For our restaurants, the advantage of having a product like AccuBar is that it truly takes the guesswork out of our inventory process. If we have a bar manager take inventory one week and an AGM the next week, we get the same results. Another thing I like about AccuBar is that every one of our restaurants uses it in a different fashion. Some use the full system, others just take beverage inventory, and one restaurants counts every single inventory item with AccuBar, including food and other items. As for the time we’ve saved on taking inventory, if it’s not cut in half, it’s more than half. One location shaves six hours off of inventory every week. Now that AccuBar interfaces with our back-of-house systems, it takes two minutes to input and get a nice clean report. The interface team was excellent and really enabled us to hit our goals. The handheld is incredibly easy to use, and updates are always available and easy to install. We’ve had one handheld running consistently since we bought it almost a year ago and it has held up great under heavy use. Your support team has been incredible. They have been able to quickly answer any question or concern that we might have. Overall, I’m very impressed with how your company has been able to offer such a solid combination of functionality, ease of use and support.

The tools it’s given us when used properly have allowed us sustainable growth with a very close eye on the bottom line. Though we now have a much larger operation, we are in touch with each store’s beverage program at just a click away. AccuBar will always be a necessary expenditure with all of our new store build outs.

It seems rare that a product is all that it is advertised to be these days. AccuBar was introduced to me as a flexible inventory control system that would increase the accuracy of inventory while reducing staff time computing inventory, decrease staff time in computing banquet bar reconciliation, and potentially decrease cost of goods through added levels of control and oversight. In a 685-room test hotel, we not only found the above to be true, we expanded the functionality to include Starbucks inventory and control. The net results? Beverage cost dropped 2 points, cost of goods for Starbucks dropped 6 points and stabilized after a year of rollercoaster cost reporting. After substantially testing the AccuBar system, we have expanded the distribution of AccuBar to many of our larger, high volume, full service hotels throughout the country.

I, as the instructor, use the iWineList daily during our pre-service meetings, Each day I sample 1-2 of our beverages (cocktails, cordials and beers included) to the current class of servers. The student servers use the iWineList both as a prompt of information during class, and even on their mobile device outside of the classroom and restaurant for furthering their knowledge.

We are still evaluating the full impact of the AccuBar system, but have already noticed some benefits and anticipate additional savings as we become more adjusted to the new process. We have already been able to halve the labor cost of taking the end of month beverage inventory. Unit total and cost errors have for the most part been eliminated. Inventory summaries are available to management two days earlier than in pre AccuBar days. Print outs are available in a far more professional format. Prior concerns which later proved to be unfounded centered on whether promised labor savings, timeliness and accuracy would be immediately achievable. We however were able to see significant improvement at once in these areas.

AccuBar is a very easy, handy tool to help you achieve anything and everything you can think of with your beverage program.

I recently acquired a little pub in Ft. Collins, Colorado . Part of the reason I bought this pub was that cost of goods ran 40% to 45%, which left the previous owner financially strapped, and left me a very good opportunity. Prior to the closing date on the pub, I knew doing a regular inventory would be key to our success. I have been in the liquor business before, and used to do inventory by hand. This time around I figured with the boom in technology somewhere I would find a tool that could help me out.So I start searching on the internet, and ran into the AccuBar site. I purchased my AccuBar tool in the first week I took over, and the cost of goods went from 40% to 45% down to a 26% average. One big factor in my purchase decision was a testimonial from Gillian’s Pub down in Tucson, AZ. He is a little 50 seat place like we are, and he raved about it. I have to say he was right on the money. No more paper and pencil. No more worrying that the missing inventory could be a calculation error on my part. It also tells me what I need to order, and how much I need.I love this tool. If you are reading this, and not using the AccuBar system, you really are missing out. The bartenders that came with the bar are very popular with the patrons, and to start over with new ones would have killed the business altogether. So my approach was to buy AccuBar, let them in on what the tool can do, and how accurate the monitoring is. Then I started to run my inventories. I can now do one in about 45 minutes. This includes receiving, empties, and full inventories on all of my locations, such as the bar, cooler, and stock room.The final report comes to my email in about a minute. Now the current employees are stuck with one of two choices: either get with the program and do the job correctly, or quit. In either case I am happy, and I don’t end up looking like the bad guy in the eyes of my customers. In Ft. Collins, bartending jobs are hard to come by, and needless to say they are all still with me, but magically the cost of goods is 14% to 19% better. Is it magic, or is it AccuBar?I also implemented a very good POS cash register. So now I can see every ounce of liquor, and bottle of beer sold. Then I can match that to my AccuBar profit watch report. My register lets me pull reports from home on my laptop, and AccuBar lets my pull reports as well from their server. So I can sit at home and compare data.If I had to decide between a POS register and my AccuBar tool, without a doubt I would choose AccuBar. I believe a POS machine can only be as good as the inventories that back it up. Meaning that I have not seen a POS that can’t be beaten. However, a good inventory does not lie. You either have the product or you don’t. It is that simple. Having both has really helped though, and I definitely recommend using both.Another good point for AccuBar it that bartenders are notorious for building a bank of liquor. They do this by short-pouring drinks, then using the bank to sell drinks, and pocketing the money. This can irritate customers who are getting watered-down drinks and owners who are losing customers because of it, let alone being ripped off. With AccuBar I can now come in and spot check the bottles, especially the well bottles where most of the sales come from, and where bartenders have the biggest opportunity to steal. In the first week I would see liquor overages of anywhere from 6 to 12 ounces of liquor in about 6 well bottles. Now it is always within an ounce or so. That is very good considering we are a free pour bar.I have implemented pouring contests as well for my bartenders, to see who can accurately pour 1, 1 1/4, and 2 ounces into one of three kinds of glasses, then pour the contents of the glass into a jigger to see how accurate they are. This makes it fun for them, and helps me with pour accuracy.The AccuBar customer service is fantastic. In the beginning I called several times with setup questions, and the staff was very friendly, and helpful. They even had me send them some of the reports I had run to look them over, and get me back on track. Now only a few weeks later I hardly have to call them at all. This is very important to bar managers, and owners, who just don’t have to time to spend on the phone. Joanne and Roger, who help me with the purchase, were just great.The biggest benefit to AccuBar is that it allows me to spend a lot more time with my customers and a lot less time trying to figure out costs and looking for theft. I will make the same offer that Gillian’s pub did. If you are ever in the Ft. Collins Area and would like to see my AccuBar tool and how it works, please feel free to stop by. We still have some work to do in order to get cost down to the 22% or 23% range, but with AccuBar helping me I will get there.

With the old system it would take up to six hours to count then enter the inventory. With AccuBar it takes less than an hour and a half from the start of counting until reports are in hand.

Our beverage costs have dropped approximately 10% since using the AccuBar system. Over the course of the year this should be a $15,000 savings in costs. It takes half the time to count inventory, with increased accuracy. Prices are easily updated through the PDA when receiving merchandise. Once inventory is counted it is seamless and quick to get accurate inventories from the website. It does not use a lot of man hours to maintain monthly.

When the prices we pay change, Profit Watch helps tell us how much of a margin we are or aren’t making. It also really helps us make sure there’s nothing miscounted or missing on a weekly basis.

I have been in the high volume bar business for over 9 years. In that time I have spent countless hours conducting endless inventories. AccuBar is by far the greatest tool I have come across in my career. I manage a sport’s bar, restaurant bar, and countless banquet bars for a golf resort and conference center. As the Beverage Director, I’m responsible for over 1,000 bottles of liquor and wine, a couple hundred cases of beer, and many tobacco products every day. Before AccuBar, it was very time consuming and almost impossible to maintain accurate inventory. Now, it takes a fraction of the amount of time it used to take to conduct inventory. All I do is scan the bar codes and AccuBar does everything else. It keeps track of pars, breakage, transfers, ordering, and even calculates our pour cost. It even generates our balance on a spreadsheet. I can’t say enough about the power of AccuBar. It has revolutionized the process of taking and maintaining inventory. AccuBar is a must for all bars.

Originally we did inventory on pen and paper. It took forever to extend out inventory, because we inventory 13 locations. Now we get the inventory done and the report back in the same day, when before it took all week. Our next step is that we’re now working now on getting our food inventory in there as well. I will say that doing inventory is more accurate. We’re not always questioning the numbers and wondering if the numbers from one person are the same as another person. Support is wonderful, because I have so many questions. They email me back so quickly and always help me out, and give me suggestions and tips. In general, we love the system.