Scan It and Plan It
Buying Inventory Scanning Equipment

As hard as it would be to imagine life today without cell phones, the Internet and e-mail, it should be harder for operators to wonder how they ran a business with accurate accounting before the current age of inventory scanning technology. Perhaps no equipment in your establishment is as important. So shop around, make an educated buy, and improve your efficiency. Here are some options.

Accubar
    So new it’s not even yet available, Accubar’s patent-pending AccuBeer is designed for owners and managers tired of guessing how much they’re losing on draft beer. AccuBeer will help management quickly determine how much has been consumed from a keg.
    The product will enable operators to measure the contents of a keg to within a pint, quickly determine shift-by-shift consumption of draft beer and compare it to sales, know how well bartenders are performing, drastically reduce theft and overpouring, more accurately calculate keg beer purchases and lower costs. AccuBeer can be used independently with a simple software program for tracking consumption and pouring cost. Or it can interface with the AccuBar system to speed and simplify the entire inventory process for liquor, beer, wine and other items.

Azbar
    Azbar provides specialized systems — and dispensers, draft beer heads and pourers — for bars or restaurants, but the company also offers technology that integrates the needs of both restaurants and bars, for dynamic establishments. The Resto-Bar system is for operators who need to manage a bar and a restaurant together or who have a bar serving food.
    AzPOS can be installed as a visual integrated system or as a transparent integrated system. Visual integration makes employees’ jobs easier and saves time with automatic updates of inventory and facilitation of balancing operations. It also allows for immediate detection of errors.

Bevinco               
Bevinco provides an independent profit control and revenue-enhancement service for bars and restaurants. Through a network of independently owned and operated franchise partners, using computer and inventory-control technology, owners are provided with management solutions for more efficiently running their hospitality businesses. On-site audits identify sources of shrinkage and aid in developing corrective strategies; the result is increased profits induced by increased accountability of the establishment’s employees.
    The Bevinco auditor is an independent person taking the inventory and doing the analysis, similar to having an independent accountant prepare the bank reconciliation and review financials.

Scannabar
    Scannabar is an inventory-control system specifically geared to the hospitality industry. While the Scannabar system is able to monitor the inventories of just about any item that a bar, restaurant or hotel cares to monitor, Scannabar’s forte and specialization is the tracking of wine and liquor supplies.
    Scannabar tracks individually and monitors every ounce of liquor
purchased, from the moment it’s received to the moment the bottle is depleted. With Scannabar, it’s possible to precisely measure the contents of 150 open bottles in just 20 minutes. Also, it quickly and automatically can compare inventory figures with sales data and find discrepancies.