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3 Surprising Ways to Use Your Digital Wine Menu

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Digital wine menus are the future of restaurant menus, but they’re useful for so much more than just wine. Savvy restaurants use digital wine menus as a fun, interactive tablet-based menu experience that gets customers excited about exploring the menu. Not only do digital wine menus provide customers with in-depth information about their drinks (which only a sommelier, a cicerone, or a bartender could provide previously), they also provide restaurant owners total freedom from expensive menu printing costs. Wondering how you can use a digital wine menu like Uncorkd even if you don’t serve wine? Here are three surprising ways.

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What the Heck Is a Beer-Wine Hybrid?

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A new drink hit the scene last year, beer-wine hybrids. I’m sure that this new beverage is going to be one of the hottest drink trends for 2014, but you may not have heard much about it because it premiered just before the fall and holiday rush. It’s not quite wine, and it’s not quite beer, but it’s not quite what you’d expect if you just poured some wine into a fresh, cold pint. The popularity and visibility of this new drink is increasing, and soon your guests will be asking you questions about it, questions that you, your sommeliers, and your cicerones should know the answers to.

Now that we’re in  a brief lull between drinking holidays, you have the time to learn everything you need to know about beer-wine hybrids. Read more

Driving Home Patron Safety: Some Resources

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Those in the business of serving alcohol are probably already pretty well-versed in the unpleasant art of knowing when it might be time to cut a patron off. There is of course some extent to which certain laws apply; however, as a bartender, manager, or owner, at the end of the day, you really just want to do right by your fellow human beings (even when liability doesn’t necessarily come into play). What’s more, a well-earned reputation as an establishment that cares about patron safety certainly gets around. That’s why it’s always a great idea to have some resources readily available to empower your patrons to make wise decisions, getting themselves (and one another) home safely.

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Responding to Comments on Yelp? The Reviews are Mixed

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In the age of the smart phone, we’ve come to expect to be able to get a message out to anyone at any time – and perhaps even get an immediate response. Some would even say this principle of instant communication has begun to apply to reviews on Yelp.com; if a customer can post a review before he or she even pays the bill, some would even go as far as to argue that the owner (or another member of the bar or restaurant staff) could, in theory, just as easily read and reply to that review within the hour. If the situation is really that dire for business owners, of course, then running a restaurant just got a lot more difficult – unless owners and managers are willing to hire someone whose sole responsibility is to handle such matters – and, so, of course there are companies that offer exactly that service. Read more