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An extensive bar inventory is typically a benefit for customers but a headache for everyone else.
Ted Rein, director of finance at the Four Seasons Hotel, Boston, has been pleased with the way their AccuBar beverage tracking system has streamlined the hotel’s beverage operations. “It’s not just an inventory system,” Rein explains. “It’s very flexible in that it gives you the ability to place and receive orders, keeping a perpetual inventory balance.”
Rein also enjoys the way that data collected by AccuBar’s handheld barcode scanners can be analyzed easily. “It doesn’t just give you canned reports. It allows you to structure them to how you want to see them,” he says.
What’s more, anytime Rein and his staff aren’t sure how to use a particular feature of the product, they know they can rely on ready phone support. “We’ve been extremely satisfied with the support,” Rein says. “A lot of times you deal with some of the big hospitality companies and you kind of get lost in the shuffle. The guys who pick up the phone [at AccuBar] are basically the programmers.”
But the most important benefit Rein sees has been on the bottom line. After switching to AccuBar from an old DOS-based inventory system last year, Rein has the ultimate praise: “We’re actually beating beverage costs this year.”–JM
AccuBar is a hotel beverage management program that uses Pocket PC PDAs to scan barcodes on the labels of liquor, beer, and wine bottles, as well as virtually any other items in the hotel’s inventory. The barcode-scanning PDAs help hotels by reducing the time it takes to manage hotel bar inventory. At every step in the hotel beverage management process, AccuBar eliminates data entry and error points and quickly feeds accurate data to its back-end software.
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