For bars, cantinas and cocktail bars
In a bar the most expensive thing sits in an open bottle, and part of it may never reach a tab: generous pours, comps nobody wrote down, spills, recipes no longer followed.
Bar & Pub
Waiting for your approval
Distributor order at minimum levels
Beer and mezcal below the level you set
01 / 0511:00
The delivery is received and checked against the order, and each brand's cost is updated.
Today's list
02 / 0516:00
The count is done by voice or phone and crossed with recipes and sales.
Waiting for your approval
Promotion for regulars · Tuesday
The venue is nearly empty at this hour
03 / 0518:00
If the bar is empty, Adren proposes a promotion to regulars; you approve the offer and the message.
Schedule
04 / 0523:00
Adren stays out of the way at the bar; it only keeps track of what goes out and what is charged.
Today's list
05 / 053:00
The list of differences by product and shift arrives with its receipts, so the cause can be investigated before anything is adjusted.
Bar & Pub
Counting the bar takes hours every week, and between counts the margin slips away without anyone knowing where.
An extra measure or an uncharged round looks small until it adds up over the month. The Shadows compare each bottle's consumption against what recipes and tickets should have consumed.
The spirits that left the bar do not match what was charged. The Shadows list the gap by product and shift, as a signal to review and not an accusation.
Midweek and mid-afternoon the room is empty and the bar idle. The Shadows read sales by hour and show where there is capacity going unused.
Counting by hand takes hours every week and gets done late or halfway. The Shadows show how much time goes into counting and how often the numbers differ.
What Adren does
What we usually build first for a business like yours:
With your approvalFeatured
Reads occupancy and the weather, and proposes sending a promotion to regular customers only when the venue is empty; you approve the offer and the message.
Waiting for your approval
Promotion for regulars · Tuesday
The venue is nearly empty at this hour
Today's list
Prepares the list of differences between consumption and sales with supporting records, so the manager investigates the cause before adjusting anything.
Today's list
Today's list
Lets you count the bar and the stockroom by dictating or with a phone, in a fraction of the time of a hand count.
Today's list
With your approval
Proposes the order from the levels you set and the price history of each brand, and you approve it.
Waiting for your approval
Distributor order at minimum levels
Beer and mezcal below the level you set
Schedule
Suggests how many bartenders and servers to schedule from each night's expected crowd.
Schedule
Ask Adren
Type the question the way you'd ask your manager. Adren answers with what it saw in your operation and what it proposes; the decision is yours.
YouWhich shift had the biggest gap between what poured and what sold?
I prepared the list of differences by shift and by bar with their records. The manager should investigate the cause before adjusting anything.
How it works
The Shadows read your POS, purchases and counts in read-only mode, the Company Brief quantifies variance by product and shift, agents prepare cases and promotions, and the manager approves before anything is adjusted or sent.
Read your operation, read-only. They change nothing.
The map of your business and where the money goes.
Act with your approval. You decide what turns on.
We measure, adjust and look after it every month.
With what you already use
Shadows, read-only
Read the way you keep it today.
You approve every action.
Contactless
Your regulars and your ticketed nights, in the wallet.
NFC passes in Apple Wallet and Google Wallet, on iOS and Android. No app to install. We set it up for your business.
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Visits add stamps and you decide the reward.
Gigs and match nights with tickets checked at the door.
The coupon lands on their phone and is redeemed at the bar.
Made to measure
Before adding a camera we reconcile recipes, measures and tickets, because a badly defined recipe creates false alarms. A cantina with one bar and one shift does not get the same as a bar with three locations and contracts with distributors.
Packages
All three are made to measure. They differ by size and complexity, not by a fixed list of features.
1 business
One business · your ERP and systems included
For a single bar we usually switch on variance by shift and counting by voice or camera, on top of the POS and recipes you already have.
Several locations
Several locations or more complex processes
For several bars we add distributor purchasing, shifts by footfall and the multi-bar view.
The whole operation
The complete operating system
For a group: comparison across locations and distributor contracts, with agents trained on your processes.
What we measure
Measured from your own baseline. It is not a promised result.
No. It is a signal to review: it can come from a badly measured recipe, an unrecorded comp or a spill. The system leaves the cause to your judgment and never assigns a shortfall to a person by itself.
You do. The agent proposes the offer, the time and who gets it; nothing goes to your customers without your approval and without respecting their contact permissions.
They stay. We read the POS and your inventory spreadsheet as they are. What goes away is the work of crossing them by hand at the end of the week.
See Adren working in your business
For bars, cantinas and cocktail bars