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November 14, 2024

How should I treat my staff?

+ Plus: restaurants stop price increases

November 7, 2024

This is good staff training

+Plus: Molson Coors shutters historic Leinenkugel's brewery

October 31, 2024

This is bad staff training

Is your biz guilty of these?

October 24, 2024

Guests are angry.

Here's what to do

October 17, 2024

Bartenders are stuggling

+Plus: most underrated cheap beer

October 10, 2024

GABF kicks off in Denver

+ Plus: best practices for social media photos & more

September 5, 2024

🍻 Taking a quick break 🍻

Brave New Bar

August 29, 2024

Hospitality advocacy: how to get involved

+Plus: a million free Dos Equis

August 22, 2024

5 rules for posting on social media

+ Plus: Hulk Hogan head beer

August 15, 2024

3 QR Menu mistakes

+Plus: "I'm not obsessed with business growth"

August 8, 2024

Use these opening and closing checklists

+Plus: good news for on-prem forecasts

August 1, 2024

Reduce customer order times by 50%

| Plus: treat your staff like your customers.

July 25, 2024

Reduce customer wait times w/ QR Menus

+ Plus: moderate drinking isn't actually good for you

July 18, 2024

RNC bad for Milwaukee bars and restaurants

+Plus: how to get better laws for your biz

July 11, 2024

Wrangle your personal finances

Advice for servers and bartenders

June 27, 2024

De-escalation training for bars & restaurants

What's your IPA Mount Rushmore?

June 20, 2024

Angry guest? End the situation ASAP

+Plus: pioneering US sour beer maker shutters

June 13, 2024

Hulk Hogan made a beer

+Plus: convicted Trump may lose liquor licenses

June 6, 2024

Downstream effects of Covid trauma bonding

+Plus: Is Sam Adams really for sale?

May 30, 2024

Making your cocktail menu: the answer key

+Plus: ins and outs of digital menus

May 23, 2024

Establish trust between guests and servers

+Plus: Osama Bin Lager sells out

May 16, 2024

4 tips for creating your cocktail menu

+ Plus: Happy "Ask for Athletic Day"

May 9, 2024

Bartending as a 19-year-old

+Plus: is Bud Light on a comeback?

May 2, 2024

On being the civilian bartender

+ Plus: truth about "Ask server for rotating drafts"

April 25, 2024

Are you losing customers for this dumb reason?

+ Plus: N. Korea hacks Swedish liquor stores

April 18, 2024

Yelp is the worst

+Plus: top 50 craft breweries of 2023 revealed

April 11, 2024

Easy tips for better social media photos

+ Plus: top 5 March Madness beers

April 4, 2024

Handling angry guests

+Plus: prolific beer bandits

March 28, 2024

You can't find quality of life in the industry

Or can you?

March 21, 2024

2 strategies to find new revenue streams

+Plus: Reggie Miller Time

March 14, 2024

4 proven problem-solving strategies

For businesses in the industry (not business school)

March 7, 2024

This staff training system actually works

+Plus: always keep your menu up-to-date

February 29, 2024

Can life in the industry be chill?

+Plus: Leap Day = free beer?

February 15, 2024

Are craft beer customers the worst?

+ Plus: Cold beer illegal in Tennessee?

February 8, 2024

Service industry drinks too much (2 strategies to help)

+ Plus: restaurant sales to top $1 trillion in 2024

February 1, 2024

4 steps to get better laws for your biz

Plus: Yelp's gonna use AI. Who cares?

January 25, 2024

Hospitality advocacy = better business

Plus+: 3 bad QR menu experiences

January 18, 2024

Covid struggles —> hospitality advocacy

+ Plus: Uber shutters Drizly

January 11, 2024

Post-Covid changes to busy vs. slow months

+ Plus: a bad year for alcohol

January 4, 2024

Retire early in service industry

+ New year, new & bettter bev menu

December 28, 2023

Most popular beers of 2023

+ Plus: 7 surprising stats about bartenders

December 21, 2023

6 simple marketing efforts to try in the new year

+ Plus: most popular breweries of 2023

December 14, 2023

How to get ahead of beer trends

+ Plus: always keep your website beer menu up-to-date

December 7, 2023

5 tips for handling angry guests

+ Plus: data on the most popular Christmas beers

November 30, 2023

How to make opening/closing checklists (+ template download)

+ Plus: why menu design matters.

November 16, 2023

How & when to open a new location

+ Plus: should your bar use TV Menus?

November 9, 2023

5 tips for interviewing server & bartender applicants

Plus: why your menu should sort beers by style

November 2, 2023

How to run de-escalation training

+ Plus: will Ozempic reduce beer sales?

October 26, 2023

A career bartender's goal for 2033

+ Plus: "Updated on..." menu timestamps are vital

October 19, 2023

Distributor: these products are trending

+ Plus: last chance to shout out your business in Brave New Bar

October 12, 2023

It's cider season. Here's how to sell more of it.

+ Plus: shout out your business in Brave New Bar

October 5, 2023

1 easy, simple marketing thing you can do today

+ Wanted: social media marketing success stories

September 28, 2023

Once a bartender, always a bartender

+ Plus: always keep your web menu up-to-date

September 21, 2023

How to find new revenue streams at your biz

Plus + last chance to win $50 VISA gift card

September 14, 2023

4 innovative problem-solving strategies for bars

+ Plus: take 3 min survey, win $50

September 7, 2023

Thoughts from a unique beer distributor

+ Plus: TV Menus = ease + sales

August 31, 2023

Beer store owner: I'm not obsessed w/ biz growth

Plus: why your menu should sort beers by style

August 24, 2023

Make your QR Menus a top marketing channel

+ Plus the value of up-to-date menus

August 17, 2023

Bartenders/servers: 2 ways to cut your drinking

+ Plus: Narcan behind the bar

August 10, 2023

Staff training expert's proven staff training system

+ Plus: notable moves from AB and Molson-Coors

August 3, 2023

9 tips for taking great social media photos

+ Bud Light fallout hits beer can maker

July 27, 2023

6 rules for acing social media comments

Plus: Anchor Brewing's employees eye purchase

July 20, 2023

Service industry: here's how to retire early

Plus: Leinenkugel's workers strike

July 13, 2023

Bartenders: wrangle your personal finances w/ 4 steps

Plus: Anchor Brewing shutters

June 29, 2023

Bartenders' 5 biggest problems in life

+ historical look at most popular July 4 beers

June 22, 2023

7 surprising stats about the average bartender

Plus: As expected, Busch Light Peach is exploding.

June 15, 2023

Bar owners can have quality of life. Here's proof.

+ Beer inflation outpaces overall inflation

June 8, 2023

6-point social media strategy for bars & restaurants

Make social easier & more productive + trending summer beers

June 1, 2023

6 simple marketing efforts for bars, restaurants, and breweries

Set these up in days + Busch Light Peach is here!

May 25, 2023

Simple social media goal that clarifies everything

+ most top-50 craft breweries saw volume declines in 2022

May 18, 2023

Treat your staff like you treat your customers

+ 2023's most searched-for beers (thus far)

May 11, 2023

Proven staff training process for bars and restaurants

+ customers want these seltzers, ciders, etc.

May 4, 2023

Staff training mistakes 90% of bars & restaurants make

+ most sneaky-popular domestics of 2023

April 27, 2023

Craft beer customers: the best or the worst?

+ 2023's most popular craft beers

April 20, 2023

How to find and keep more regulars

+ top 50 craft breweries of 2022

April 13, 2023

Yelp = "fear propaganda and blackmail." Ignore it.

+ 8th inning beers

April 6, 2023

Bars & restaurants: be comfortable in the uncomfortable

+ last chance to win $50 VISA gift card

March 30, 2023

How and why you need to ace landlord relationships

+ take 2 min survey, win $50

March 23, 2023

3 strategies for effective distributor relations

+ Spring Break = emergency in Miami

March 16, 2023

How to make opening/closing checklists (+ template download)

+ St. Patrick's Day beer data

March 9, 2023

Where the craft alcohol market is headed (from a cider innovator)

+ Spirits > beer in US market share

March 2, 2023

How & when to open a new bar/restaurant location

+ Three Floyds Zombie Ice is trending

February 23, 2023

How to know what beer trends are coming before they arrive

+ Frasier Crane's beer is trending

February 16, 2023

How-to: train staff to handle bad customers w/ de-escalation

Plus: trending IPAs

February 9, 2023

5 tips for interviewing bartender & server applicants

+ The world's most sought-after beer just dropped

February 2, 2023

How beer bars can get new regulars: wine drinkers

Plus: craft malt liquor and a Yuengling quiz

January 26, 2023

How to sell more cider + report on fake Yelp reviews

Data on the most popular ciders

January 19, 2023

8 staff training & education tips + Dry Jan participation data

Get your staff invested in your bar program

January 12, 2023

How to handle angry guests + trending NA beer

5-step process to make sure guests return

January 5, 2023

Social media expert's posting playbook for bars and restaurants

+ NYE's trending beers

December 29, 2022

Most popular beers of 2022 + Staffing tactics

How to always be fully-staffed

December 22, 2022

Most popular breweries of 2022 + Is the beer bar dead?

Top 10 craft breweries, ranked

December 16, 2022

Data: most popular Christmas beers + how to deal with new competitors

Interview with ops director + YOY Christmas beer data

December 8, 2022

Data on Bourbon County Stout, managing distributor relationships

YOY Bourbon County data + interview with ABC Beer Co.'s Zach Mack

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