Mastering Restaurant Revenue
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The Bartender’s Battlefield: How Bar Design Wins or Loses You Money
🍷🍸 If your bar isn’t DESIGNED to sell… you’re pouring money down the drain. In this episode of Mastering Restaurant Revenue, Diane Armitage and Bruce Russo expose the hidden flaws in bar layout and design that are silently killing operations and profits – and what to fix now to double revenue from the same space. From bartender chaos zones to smart upsell setups, Bruce and Diane share genius design hacks that owners overlook (until it’s too late).
Key Points
- 🔎 What You’ll Learn:
- ✅ How to design a bar that makes selling (and upselling) effortless
- ✅ The bartender’s battlefield — why layout impacts everything
- ✅ Service bars: the underused profit weapon
- ✅ When wine-on-tap makes (serious) money sense
- ✅ The surprising role of bar stools in guest turnover
- ✅ A small feature that keeps guests lingering — and ordering more
- ✅ The top design flaw costing owners thousands every week
- ✅ Real-world examples of bars that doubled revenue with small changes
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Transcript
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