Bar Equipment

"Be careful to trust a person who does not like wine," said Karl Marx. If you have a taste for the fermented liqueurs, or are in the business of serving liqueur at your bar or pub, you would settle for nothing but the best when it comes to quality.

But it is not just the quality of liqueur that should compel your purchases. Rather, a good bar must be planned right from the design of the place to the bar equipment in the restaurant or home.

While setting up your home bar or restaurant-bar, you need to take into consideration a few things like, lighting requirements, power supply, access to washrooms, water supply, desired space ratio for bar counter, bartending area and guest seating/standing space. Innovate with placement of cabinets and refrigerators beneath the counter or in other space saving arrangements. The ambience has to be in sync with your theme, which should reflect through the furniture, cutlery, glassware and even the uniform of the staff.

Shaken and stirred:

Serving right
Begin at the service end. If you maintain the quality of service, you will attract a following from your customers, which will translate into good business in the long run. And while you maintain standards in your restaurant or bar business, do not forget to innovate. Ideas are what will keep your business from becoming outdated. Of course, all this will not be possible without making the right hiring decision. Make sure you get the right kind of talent to serve your clients.

While these are a few things you will have to manage at your end, for the rest, you can come to AppleRestaurantSupply.com.

BAR Essentials:

Bar Coolers
While serving beer, lager or ale, draught or pilsner, take care of the temperature consideration on the customer's end. Different kinds of liqueur are enjoyed best at different temperatures. While cooler temperatures are the norm, the customers are, more often than not, finicky when it comes to the temperature range of their drinks.

And a display that catches your eye, can translate into instant sales. So be particular with your display arrangement and go for the right kind of bar equipment that gives you a suitable mix of style and utility. To help you do that, AppleRestaurantSupply.com presents you with a range of bar coolers from True, ColdTech and TurboAir.

Beverage Dispensing
A good utility aid for the overworked bar man, who would practically make or break your business with his output, is a beverage dispenser. Cold beverages that go into your cocktails or mocktails can easily be stored in these dispensers that come with two to three dispenser options. Once stocked, it will help you sail through a big number of orders in a short span of time. Take your pick between Cecilware and Cornelius’ dispensers.

There is another set of cocktails and frozen drinks that require slush and frozen beverages for preparation. Add a frozen beverage dispenser, and reduce the cocktail preparation time by nearly half.

Bottle Coolers
If it is a small space that you have set aside for your bar, you can go in for an innovative piece of bar equipment that facilitates bottle storage and acts as a cooling device. Simply known as a bottle cooler, it lets you stack up your beer bottles. It comes in sleek-looking models that can go well with the overall look of the kitchen or bar. At AppleRestaurantSupply.com, you can choose from among the range of restaurant equipment from True, Turbo Air and ColdTech.

Glass Washers
What’s the most common item you associate with a bar? A beer mug or a glass of whisky? Essentially glassware. And a whole lot of these glasses are circulated in the bar or restaurant bar. So how does one manage the numbers?
Going with disposable options isn’t a luxury one can afford in a small restaurant business. And of course, there are perks of using your customized cutlery apart from following the environment-friendly business practice. It cuts down on your purchase bills. Though it does add on to the cleaner and washer’s job. So, we recommend that you could go in for glass washers in your bar equipment. Carlisle and Hamilton Beach offer you the electric glass wash option in two or three glass washes. You can make these purchases on AppleRestaurantSupply.com.

Ice Bins
Make sure you get the ice bins on your purchase list for the home bar or restaurant bar. In the business of alcohol, there is no excuse for running out of ice! But, a constant supply is difficult with the refrigerator being opened frequently. So, stock up on your ice in one of the ice bins from Krowne’s range of 24 to 36-inch ice bins.
An ice bin is also ideal for your evening parties where you don’t want to keep running back into the kitchen for fetching more ice cubes.  Of course, a properly designed home bar should accommodate the ice bin.

Mug/Plate Chillers
An order for chilled beer may be commonplace in your bar business. But, have you ever heard of chilled mugs or chilled plates? There is nothing hot about the bar, except for maybe the popularity quotient of your joint with the customers. Most beverages in a liqueur joint are served chilled or moderately cold. So, your cutlery isn’t supposed to be out of place in the entire set-up. Pick up a cold plate from your Plate Chiller and feel the difference in your sales. Take a pick from True’s bar equipment range of glass and plate chillers that come in two colors – black and white. Go for whatever fits best in your scheme of things.

After Effects?

Bar Sinks
Have you heard of the concept of wet bars? These are bars that have a running supply of water and a sink. And if you add the bar sink to your bar arrangement, it will help you in easing the load on the bar man, by giving him the option of cleaning glasses close to the counter, rather than in the kitchen. A wet bar would facilitate mixing of drinks by the bartender with the continuous supply of water. You can choose from Krowne’s range of sinks that offer one to three compartment-options, that are available on AppleRestaurantSupply.com.

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Portable Bars and Carts
If you forgot to add the bar while you laid out the home design plan and got your dream home constructed minus the quintessential drinking hole, do not fret. A portable bar could help you with some out-of-the-box fixes to your faux pas. Treat your guests to cocktails by the poolside.  Or better still, the next time you go on an excursion or a trip, take your portable bar along.
For a business like a restaurant, you may like to explore the option of a cart, rather than a portable bar. Either option helps you tide over space constraints in small restaurants or apartment living. Cambro has a range of portable bars and carts that you can take a pick from.

BEER with me:

Beer Taps/ Dispensers
What’s a bar without an uninterrupted flow of liqueur? This isn’t something that one usually purchases for a home bar. But for the real professional bar owner, we would recommend the beer dispensers with taps as top of the list purchase priority. These are especially beneficial to the over-the-counter bars or pubs, where the beer sales are quite high. So pick up one of the beer dispensers from Coldtech, TurboAir, Fagor or True bar equipments. And let the beer flow.

The Perfect Blend

Blenders, Mixers, Juicers
Happy hour offers usually translate into twice the number of orders, which means more business, and more cocktails to serve. Preparing and serving cocktails is an art. Bartending schools are now commonplace, and experienced bartenders can make a fortune off their skills. And to aid the barman with his art is a host of blenders, mixers and juicers.
After all, every customer is unique and to win their loyalty to your pub or joint, you have to make them feel extra-special. Remember what their preferred drinks are, and you’ll keep them coming to you. Once you’ve got all the ingredients right down to the precise quantity of each, then comes the task of getting the right mix.
Wasting precious moments in preparing drinks when the bar is overflowing with customers could be bad for your restaurant business. Lay your hands on one of the mixers on offer at AppleRestaurantSupply.com. Apart from the regular range of bar equipment like juicers, blenders and mixers, the extreme power range has made it to the bar-owner’s most wanted list. While some barmen like the stand mixers on the counter, others like to keep it handy with a blender. You can take your pick from Dynamic, Globe, Hamilton Beach brands.
Oh, and keep a blender repair kit handy. You wouldn’t want to be stuck without an option in the middle of the night!

Wine Cellars/ Chillers
There is an Irish saying that goes, What whisky will not cure, there is no cure for.Whisky, wine, beer or rum, whatever it is that works for your guests, you need to be well stocked and well prepared for the demand for all kinds of liqueur. Anticipate that demand and keep your coffers full.
In pick-and-purchase shops or malls, for instance, where liqueur is purchased from the storage-cum-display racks, a good piece of restaurant equipment could be the wine chiller merchandiser.
You can choose from True, IRSG and Cooltech range of bar equipment.
And let your guests or customers enjoy the taste of fermented grapes dating another century.

If the inspiration for your business is the Homer Simpson quote, ‘Alcohol is my way of life and I aim to keep it,’ you should get serious about acquiring the bar equipments that will go a long way in making your bar business a success.
If you’re looking for more, an exhaustive list of bar supplies and equipments is available on AppleRestaurantSupply.com.
Happy BarTending!

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