Bar and Beverage
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How to Build a House Cocktail Program That Actually Makes Money
TL;DR: Most house cocktail programs are designed by ego and priced by guess. The ones that print money have four traits in common: a tight menu of 8...
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How to Pass Your First NYC DOH Inspection Without Losing Your Mind
TL;DR The NYC DOH inspection is not a gotcha. It's a rules-based scoring system, and most of the points that sink operators come from six fixable...
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Par Levels That Don't Require a Monthly Rebuild
Most par levels are wrong. Not a little wrong. Wrong in ways that either leave you over-ordering and tying up cash in inventory or under-ordering and...
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How I Build a Menu a New Bartender Can Run on Night One
Every menu I've built in the last ten years has been designed for the Tuesday night crew, not the Instagram post....
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The 86 List Should Be a System, Not a Whiteboard
The whiteboard behind the bar is not a system. It's a hope....
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Pour Cost Without the Surveillance Complex
Here's the quiet part: if you can't trust your staff, either you're hiring criminals or you're the criminal....
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The Shift Change Checklist
The shift change is where money walks out the door. Not from the register. From the mess of a handoff that nobody owns and everyone assumes the other...
