39 Accubar Testimonials

"We just started to use the Price Analysis report, and it is a great way to check to see if prices increase and we need to adjust."

“We’re excited about growing with AccuBar and very excited that AccuBar is innovating in new ways, AccuBar is a valuable and trusted partner in our business.”

“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.”

"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."

“I just wanted to drop you guys a note, and tell you what a great job your support team has done for us in our inventory management needs. We originally purchased your product some years ago, and had a slightly rough start (due to my time constraints more than anything else), but have since been more active in the use of your product. As our activity increased, so did our support needs, and your staff has been right on it each and every time.In today’s bust times, that means a lot to me, as I’m normally stretched pretty thin. We’re not a huge bar, but our configuration (7 bar stations in 3 rooms on 2 levels) requires housing quite a bit of inventory. As a result, inventories are not our favorite activity. It used to take me roughly 12 hours to inventory the whole club. That included guestimating how full the bottles were, writing it all down on paper (keeping track of the paper and keeping it all dry from beginning to end.) Then came the math. It was a nightmare.With AccuBar, I can inventory all 7 stations and the back stock areas in under 3 hours. Once I’ve done it, I hotsync my handheld and normally have the reports by the time I open my email. Calculating pour cost (which I never even did before AccuBar — don’t tell the boss) is now simply a matter of cutting and pasting or just pointing from one spreadsheet to another.In addition, I don’t even think twice about inventorying a bar station before and after a particular shift if there is doubt about the bartender’s honesty. In conjunction with my POS software, I can see exactly how accurately my staff is pouring and ringing their sales with next to no effort. Before I would have doubts about my estimates, or I just wouldn’t have the time to take the inventory and do the math. I’d basically have to catch somebody in the act in order to correct the problem.I can’t speak highly enough about how much time your product and service has saved me in my day-to-day duties. I plan to forge ahead, as time permits, and implement some of the other features that I don’t even use yet – Like re-order tasks. The only thing I regret is not having purchased your product sooner and not having used it to its full potential — yet. I look forward to working with you, your company and your products well into the future. Thanks again for your help in making my job easier, and helping me to make ours a more profitable business.”

"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."

“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 felt compelled to write you and thank you for getting us AccuBar. I know that we’ve only had it for a couple of months, but I have to tell you we love it already! We had been working with “The Beast” for almost a year and it was awful. The website and the handheld unit took forever to load, adding barcode-less products was a 4-step process, and many of our high end scotches, cognacs and wines were not recognized by their system as well as being in the wrong categories. I could not even correct any of this myself. I had to attempt to get in touch with a real person in California because even my local sales rep could not help me with those changes. Even if I got in touch with somebody to make changes no one could change the reports. They were static. So even if I changed my inventory numbers (which was a time consuming chore) the reports didn’t change. Inventory always took us between 7 and 9 hours to do, and we always had to have barcodes printed for the barcode-less items and either post them or carry them around with us. Now with AccuBar I can change anything I want to; categories of items, inventory points and even the names of my items. Barcode-less items I can just type in on the website once and we don’t have to carry around barcode sheets anymore, we can just look up our items on the handheld unit. It is so much easier it’s almost silly (but much safer since some of our products are on high shelves). Inventory now takes us about half the time it used to. The feature that I particularly love is being able to link items on the website. So now it does not matter if one manager calls an item “Cintron” and another calls it “Absolut Cintron.” Our website considers it the same item so our inventory numbers are more accurate because we do not have duplicate items. Again, I know we have only had your product for a couple of months, but the ease and simplicity of it is amazing. I’m so annoyed that we wasted over 100 hours of our time trying to make “The Beast” work for us when AccuBar was available.”

“I have been extremely pleased with the AccuBar system and the tech support since we have successfully implemented it at David Paul’s Lahaina Grill. It is very user friendly and has certainly allowed us to improve cost controls, reduce labor costs and implement targeted profit watches, therefore well worth the initial investment. Rick Woodford and his team have always been extremely accessible and efficient in responding to questions or tech support. I can only highly recommend this system to my other colleagues in the industry.”

“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.”

“Most importantly for our diners, when they find [a wine] on our website or on the wine list in our dining room, it is actually what we do have, with no 86 on [any] wine. We’re very happy and it’s been very helpful for us.”

“You guys are probably our favorite company we deal with in our entire system. The support from AccuBar has been unbelievable.”

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

“iWineLists has been an invaluable addition to our wine programs at Hy’s Steakhouse. Putting the dedication and time into developing it was the trick. The features that are available to our guests have shown an increase in wine sales as well as an increase in our obscure wines sold, as our guests have the opportunity to read tasting notes once seated to entice their palates. As well, it has assisted the staff on continuing to broaden their knowledge as a selling tool. Truly a great addition to have!”

“We want a receiving report, a transfer report and an inventory report for the beverage items at the end of each month, That gives us our cost of goods sold for beverage.”