Digital beer menus are attention-grabbing, easy for customers to read, and way easier to manage than the old fashioned chalkboard. This makes life easier for your bartenders and makes the entire ordering process more efficient, which drives a significant increase in beverage sales.
But questions abound: how do I create a digital beer menu? How can I get it onto a TV? And can I update it in real-time?
TV Menus from BeerMenus make it extremely easy.
You know the scene. A keg kicks and your heart drops: you have to update your beer menu.
What comes next goes something like this: you go to the office computer and head to Google to find the new beer's description. You search and search, finally find a description you like, then copy and paste it into your Adobe, Canva, Word, or Google Docs menu document. You're done...except now the formatting is screwed up. You fiddle with it until it's finally ready. You push print and take a deep breath.
You're done.
Until you have to do the exact same thing the next day.
It doesn't have to be that way! Read on to learn how to create a professional beer menu template that automatically includes beer descriptions.
Megan Rickerson of Someday Bar has deep experience with hospitality advocacy. One of the most important take homes she's shared with us is that you just have to get started, and once you do it's all down hill from there.
But how do you actually get started? What's the first thing you should do?
Here's advice from Megan on that front:
When you switch from Untappd to BeerMenus you’ll save hundreds of dollars and have access to almost all of the same tools as with Untappd (some of which are better with BeerMenus). Plus, you'll get access to other tools from BeerMenus. Here’s more about the differences between Untappd and BeerMenus.
This year we've helped bars, restaurants, and breweries from Alaska to New York showcase their craft beer tap list in just about every way possible, from modern to sleek to chalkboard-inspired.
In this article we highlight the 10 best digital menu board designs we made this year. Enjoy!
👉 Update Spring 2023: Untappd for Business now has two tiers: Untappd for Business Essentials ($899/year) and Untappd for Business Premium ($1199/year).
The limitations built into this new two-tier system mean many businesses who were previously at $899/year will have to move up to $1199/year to keep using Untappd the same way they had been.
BeerMenus, a popular Untappd for Business alternative with most of the same features (and many helpful features not offered by Untappd), costs $599 per year.
BeerMenus is not in any way affiliated with Untappd for Business.
Having an angry guest is a difficult situation. They're unhappy. Your server or bartender isn't happy. You're not happy.
It sucks when no one's happy.
Add to that the fact that everybody's stress level has been ratcheted up these last 2.75 Covid years and you're looking at a tinderbox. When you intervene, you really do need to thread a needle.
Josh Hurst, industry veteran and current Director of Operations and Hospitality Josh Hurst for Pies & Pints has a playbook for threading this needle, whether the angry customers have complaints in-store or via their website or social media.
Check out the post and clips below to learn all about Josh's process.
Last week we talked to Someday Bar's Megan Rickerson about her background and experience with Covid.
This week Megan's back and we're talking Covid again, but this time through the lens of how Covid and its aftermath directly led her to get super involved in advocacy for the hospitality industry.
Last week Megan Rickerson of Someday Bar spoke about how she first got involved in advocacy for the hospitality industry. (Spoiler: Covid kicked it off.)
This week Megan covers the next step of her evolution: getting involved in local politics, an effort which has now landed her on the executive board of the NYC Hospitality Alliance and a part of the NYC Mayor's Small Business Council.
Whenever you update on BeerMenus, you can automatically send a post to Facebook that promotes that update to your audience.
A number of people have asked us for help setting up this feature so we've put together a step-by-step guide. This is a one-time only process—once it's setup you will not have to do this again.