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Run a sharper wine program
Field-tested guides on inventory, pricing, by-the-glass margin, multi-venue operations and governed AI, for operators and serious collectors.
AI in the Wine Cellar, With Guardrails
AI can enrich your wine data or quietly corrupt it. The difference is governance: confirmation flows and structured records, not raw generated text.
Your POS Isn't a Cellar System of Record, Here's the Gap
A POS is a brilliant record of sales and a poor record of stock. Closing that gap with integration is the key to trusting your numbers.
How to Price a Wine List: Rules, Markup, Rounding and VAT
Stop pricing wine by feel. A working playbook for markup, rounding, VAT, and glass pricing that's explainable, repeatable, and consistent.
Multi-Venue Wine Pricing: Consistency Without Losing Local Control
Pricing drift across sites isn't a discipline problem, it's a tooling problem. Org defaults plus deliberate site overrides beat copy-paste every time.
By-the-Glass Margin: How to Stop the Leak
By-the-glass is where margin disappears one over-pour at a time. The fix is mL-level tracking and glass prices anchored to real bottle economics.
The Complete Guide to Wine Inventory Management for Restaurants
Lots beat counts. Here's how restaurants move from spreadsheet guesswork to wine inventory that tells you what changed, when, and why.