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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. Creating customizable prix fixe menus for groups with easy online ordering. Offering direct online ordering via a restaurant-branded app to avoid high third-party app fees.

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Coffee News Recap, 13 Jun: Gesha scores 98 points at 2025 BoP, potential IPO for Pret A Manger & other stories

Perfect Daily Grind

The limited-edition drop includes an Ethiopian coffee, an ACME porcelain cup and saucer, and exclusive merchandise. The new concept features a modular 60m² footprint with six-week fit-outs, integrated digital ordering kiosks, a localised food counter, and reduced back-of-house requirements.

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Why More Breweries Are Switching to Modern POS Systems in 2025

Lavu

Unlike traditional setups, modern solutions offer advanced features like mobile ordering, integrated payments, taproom analytics, and automated inventory tracking—all tailored to brewery workflows. With craft beer culture expanding, breweries are stepping up their game, offering tours, merchandise, and in many cases, food.

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POS system performance: What Your POS System Says About Your Restaurant

Lavu

Be sure the orders are easy to read and understand. From traditional computer displays to mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets, the display is the beginning. First, a POS system will ensure that all ordered items have a track record. In a busy kitchen, there is no time for mistakes.

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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: Diner Resiliency, Automation Technology, and Egg Prices

Modern Restaurant Management

Despite the fact that consumers are paying more to visit and order from restaurants this year – 12.5 28 percent of consumers say they are ordering takeout and delivery more frequently than last year. Additionally, households making less than $50k ordered takeout and delivery far less frequently than their wealthier peers.