The Best Ways To Optimize your Bar’s Wine Storage
Any barback can attest to how a messy liquor room or wine cellar can become a huge pain. While it’s good to have many drink options for your clientele, it’s also a nightmare for logistics if you don’t organize your storage correctly.
Keeping tabs of what goes in and out can be painstaking, especially if you don’t have a process in place. So, we came up with five tips to help you optimize your wine and spirit storage in your restaurant.
Organize and label
An organized wine cellar and liquor storage saves you and your staff tons of time and energy.
Keep your shelves in order and consistently labeled so you know where the bottles need to be. You also need to make sure your team is diligent in keeping them in place.
For wine, you could also place tags on the neck of each bottle with information about the contents. It will also help you find specific vintages without disturbing any of the other bottles.
Here are some of the ways you can organize wines and spirits:
- According to popularity
- Old World and New World
- Full bodied to light bodied
- By Vintage
Use your menu as a map for your Wine Cellar
You can also arrange your wine cellar according to your wine menu.
Optimize your wine and spirits storage using your menu as a directory. It’s a great way to keep your team on the same page as to where the bottles can be found. Even the new staff will find this easier to maintain and follow.
Wine menus are often ordered according to the varietal and the location of the winery, and this would also be a great baseline for organizing your bar’s wine cellar.
Assign Rows by Wine Type
Another way to organize your wine is through their types: red, white, or sparkling wines.
Separating wines into categories make it easier to locate the wines and also alerts you when a particular wine’s volume is getting low. It also lets you know which wines sell well.
It also makes sense to store wine according to its origin. The wine’s region can greatly influence its taste.
Devise a method that works for you and your team
Make sure that the system you use for organizing is easy to understand for anyone on your team.
Your organization system should make sense to someone else besides you. This helps increase your team’s efficiency and improves different areas of operations.
Adopt an inventory system
It definitely helps for bars and restaurants to have a concrete, step-by-step guide to keeping a wine and spirit inventory. It’s important to maintain enough product in your venue, but it is just as important to understand how the liquor flows in and out of storage.
Inventories also help determine factors such us your bar’s financial performance. It helps you check your usage, and how much you need to stock to keep your bar running.
You can also save yourself the trouble of manually imputing your inventory by using BEVSIGHT, your online beverage inventory solution.
