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How to Calculate and Improve Your Bar’s Profit Margin

7 Shifts

A bar is a profitable business option if you’re looking to enter the food industry. However, understanding how to calculate and improve your bar's profit margin is key to long-term success. One key area to focus on is drink sales, with cocktail sales accounting for about 23% of a bar's revenue.

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Untapped Areas of Profitability in a Full-Service Restaurant

Squirrel Systems

Optimizing the Bar Program with Digital Tools Beverages, especially alcoholic ones, offer some of the highest profit margins in the restaurant industry. Introduce wine pairings or tasting events with online booking options. Consider: Using event management software to streamline inquiries, bookings, and deposits.

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Why More Breweries Are Switching to Modern POS Systems in 2025

Lavu

With craft beer culture expanding, breweries are stepping up their game, offering tours, merchandise, and in many cases, food. A POS for a brewery needs to be able to handle services not normally offered by standard bar/restaurant POS systems. Categorize bar tabs by credit card or by a customer’s name.

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Restaurant Profit Margin: 7 Ways To Actually Make Your Operation More Profitable

SpotOn

A bar or brewery is considered to be the highest profit margin restaurant business with a gross profit margin on alcohol that's around 80%. But many owners don't account for the high fixed costs of bars —like repairs, insurance, and alcohol theft which can leave them with less profit than expected. Labor costs.

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MRM Research Roundup: To-Go Trends, State of the Plate, and Black Market Reservations

Modern Restaurant Management

” The report found that: Chili’s Grill & Bar is winning over young diners, with 23 percent of those aged 18-29 visiting the Brinker International-owned brand in the past 90 days. In a world where marketing is expected to deliver both brand equity and measurable growth, that clarity is mission-critical.”

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Martha Stewart’s ‘Entertaining’ Let Me Party Like It Was 1982

EATER

What replicating a cocktail party from Martha Stewart’s first book taught me about Martha, and the good life The first time I remember being aware of Martha Stewart was when a childhood friend told me about a T-shirt she saw in a store window. Entertaining is a weird book. It read, she giggled, wide-eyed, “I want to be Martha.

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Ultimate Restaurant Website Design Guide for Beginners

7 Shifts

Check out this example from Barcelona Wine Bar for inspiration. Reservations - Embed your reservations platform’s widget onto your website to encourage customers to book directly through you instead of via a third party. Include essential pages like "Menu," "About Us," "Contact," "Reserve," and "Order Now" in the navigation bar.