Wireless Liquor P.O.S. System

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1 Wireless Liquor P.O.S. System

2 An Innovative Breakthrough in Liquor Sales Management Barmate s wireless technology allows you to track liquor sales without compromising the personal touch that has been a long-time tradition in the bar business. Whether you own a local bar or manage a food and beverage chain, accounting for liquor served vs. revenue received is crucial to profits. Despite this need, there has been no system that could provide this important point-of-sale (P.O.S) information in a practical, bartender-friendly, and cost-effective manner until now. Barmate is the first liquor P.O.S. system on the market that provides unique wireless pour-spouts that dispense a pre-measured amount of liquor and instantly transmit the P.O.S. information in real-time to an establishment s computer. Developed by a team of innovative engineers in California s Silicon Valley, Barmate posts and pours simultaneously, providing speed, flexibility, and ease-of-use long awaited by bar professionals around the world. Tracks Sales and Automates Pours to Increase Profits Barmate: As Simple as it Sounds! Barmate is amazingly simple to operate. When pouring a drink, the Bartender simply inverts the Liquor bottle (even two at once) with a conventional pouring motion. The Barmate spout then automatically dispenses a pre-measured amount (default or push-button selected), and transmits the following P.O.S. information wirelessly to the computer as the drink is poured: the liquor brand exact amount dispensed price of the dispensed amount server s name time and date of the transaction A bar manager s access to P.O.S. information has never been so quick or more complete. Barmate allows you, for the first time, to get up-to-the-minute, customized liquor sales and inventory reports in real-time. No more waiting until after hours. You can pinpoint trends throughout the day and make adjustments immediately to increase efficiency and improve sales. Key Features: Barmate s ergonomic spouts provide four pour-size buttons for manual selection, and a default (hands-free) size for most frequently poured drinks. Battery Low and Spout Status LEDs indicate spout status at all times. In addition, a spout-from-bottle removal sensor detects tampering. Monitoring sales, inventory, and employee performance can make the difference between turning a profit or incurring a loss. By having the information to make the right adjustments quickly, your operation can be more efficient, productive, and competitive. A real-time liquor P.O.S. system is essential to this effort. Loss of revenue at a bar due to fraud, unauthorized giveaways, over-pouring, and spillage can significantly hurt your business. In fact, many bars that rely primarily on hard-liquor sales often find it difficult to survive these unwanted conditions as they persist. Barmate eliminates inefficiencies and theft at the bar. Savings can be quick and significant depending on the establishment s volume of sales. For example, from a standard 25.4 oz. bottle of liquor, a 1.5 oz. drink selling for $5.50 should yield a revenue of $93.12 per bottle. However, as little as a 1/4 oz. per drink over-poured or given away reduces the revenue to $79.83 per bottle. Using Barmate to pour consistent and accounted for drinks results in an additional $13.30 profit per bottle. An establishment consuming 240 bottles ( 20 cases) in a month can realize a savings of $3,192.00, enough to pay for the Barmate system in a very short time, with continued savings for years to come. Depending on an establishment s volume of sales, Barmate s initial cost can be recovered in only a few months. Figures are based on a 1/4 oz. wastage per shot scenario. Using Barmate, a bar owner or manager can: Receive detailed sales reports with employee accountability and expected cash revenue for every drink poured. Receive an up-to-the-minute inventory status on ounces poured and remaining in each bottle. Monitor trends such as best selling/ worst selling brands with daily, weekly, monthly & yearly usage. Oversee employee performance and locate problem shifts where inventory shrinkage is occurring. Eliminate revenue loss caused by frequent human overpouring. Prevent fraud, unauthorized giveaways, and consumption by employees. Ensure customer satisfaction by pouring consistent shots, making the drink always taste the same, and physically presenting the liquor brand poured for the customer. Increase server efficiency and customer turnaround by reducing drink preparation time with pre-measured pours, and automatically ringing-up customers as the drinks are poured. At Last, a Bartender-Friendly System! Unlike other liquor control systems, Barmate never compromises the flexibility essential to the bar business. Thanks to Barmate s patented design, each bottle in a bar has its own designated spout digitally programmed with unique information. There are no limits on the number of liquor brands or pricing levels you can assign, and no more manual activator rings (donuts), ring-coded spouts, bands & seals on bottles, liquor guns, shot glasses, keys & locks on terminals, bulky fixtures, readers, scales, mounted towers, or downloading of information at the end of the shift. There is no need for a bartender to be chained down to a pouring station or to pour from one bottle at a time. Instead, Barmate allows you to focus on the critical part of the business increasing profits via quick customer turnaround and better service through modern technology.

3 Software features Barmate is the first, and presently the only Windows - based liquor control and P.O.S. system available on the market, providing the most user-friendly solution in the industry. Bars no longer need to invest in expensive custom made computers or complicated operating systems and software. By utilizing Windows, the most commercially accepted and available operating system, Barmate provides: easy visual access to commands, unlimited flexibility in manipulating and transferring data to other Windows-based programs such as Excel or Lotus 1-2-3, and the choice of using your own IBM-compatible PC. In addition, you ll have the widest compatibility with industry-standard networking and add-on peripherals such as printers, cash registers, and credit-card authorization modules. Barmate allows you to choose the configuration that suits your needs for the minimum cost. From hotel & casinos to night clubs and local bars, Barmate excels in managing high volume and complex transactions with advanced multi-user, multi-line and multi-window functionality. Barmate s Software consists of three basic modules: 1) Server Point-of-Sale Module 2) Management Customization Module 3) Management Reporting Module 1 Server Point-of-Sale Module 3 Management Reporting Module Instant Customized reporting any way you want it review sales, inventory, or your complete transaction journal for any given period of time, filtered for any specific station, server, or liquor brand. Increase customer turn-around by using Barmate s automatic touch-screen ring-up feature as drinks are being poured vs. manually entering prices into a cash register. Just a touch that s all it takes to run item tabs or groups of items instantly. 2 Management Customization Module The Complete Transaction Journal gives a historical summary with time/date stamps on all activities at the bar, tracking everything, even when you are away. Each type of activity is color coded and filter-enabled to help you make frequent quick checks on items such as comps, voids, spout engage/disengagement activities, and all liquor pouring events with the brand, amount poured, the server, and revenue expected. Easy-to-use Spout Customization Screen provides management access to an existing database containing hundreds of the most popular liquor brands. It allows instant retail price programming at all times for on-going changes or special events such as happy hours. Add or change employees, assign management access privileges and complimentary allowancesright on the spot- and all from one place. Real-time sales reports viewed on screen allow you to insure total pour accountability, and make the necessary changes at the bar to improve sales or to eliminate fraud. Get an accurate and up-to-the-minute inventory status on all your liquor brands. By monitoring the number of bottles consumed per brand and the actual ounces remaining in each bottle, you can make better purchasing decisions and avoid over/understocking of brands.

4 The Barmate family Barmate is a family of full-featured products designed to work together like one. Barmate consists of: A) wireless pour spouts B) a central receiver unit C) Windows-based software D) a spout-charging station E) the PC computer F) a touch-screen monitor. The computer and touch-screen monitor can be provided by Barmate, or purchased directly by the customer from a preferred supplier. Barmate is designed to be installed on an IBM-compatible PC owned by an establishment. To run Barmate software you need the following minimum configuration on your PC: IBM-Compatible PC 386 (486 or Pentium recommended) / 8 MB of RAM (16 MB recommended) Hard drive with 120 MB available/ 3.5-inch floppy disk drive Two serial ports (COM 1 & COM 2) / One parallel port for printer / Super VGA card Microsoft Windows version 3.1 / 95 / Workgroups 3.11/ or Windows NT version 3.1 or later (pre-installed). Spout specifications Number of Portion sizes: Portion Sizes: Five (four button-select, and one hands-free default size reserved for the most frequently poured shot size) Standard configuration: 1/4,1/2,1,1-1/2, 2 oz. (or programmed to meet customer portion size requirements) Price Designation Capacity: Unlimited. Every bottle can have its own price-per-portion size. Price change feature: Number of Brands : Spouts per Station: Accuracy: Automated time-based price shifting per spout for special events, such as happy hours, conventions, etc.- easily and instantly customizable through Barmate s Windows based Software. Unlimited number of liquor brands can be controlled. Unlimited Spouts dispense amount within 5% of the selected pour size. Battery Capacity: Each rechargeable spout can perform over 1000 pouring cycles (or empty up to 50 bottles of its designated liquor brand) before requiring recharging. Security features: On bottles: Spout-from-bottle-removal sensor Range: System: Software requires management access code for system shutdown or access to customization and reporting modules. 40 to 60 feet (omni-directional), depending on environmental conditions. H/W Maintenance: Modular design of spouts permits simultaneous charging and cleaning without interrupting system operation. C Windows-Based Software F Touch-Screen Monitor The confidence of working with the leader A Wireless Pour Spouts At Barmate Corporation we provide a complete system for your bar hardware, software, networking, and communication equipment. We back them up with product warranties, extensive customer support, concise yet thorough product manuals, training, experienced field salespeople and world-wide distributors. Our Software Maintenance, Enhancements, and Support (MES) program provides priority phone and on-line modem support, software updates and major software upgrades on an annual contract basis. We know how important it is in the food & beverage Industry to deliver quickly, accurately, and cost-efficiently. Barmate was developed using the same guiding principle. Our R&D efforts are substantial and focus on making the latest technologies practical for the fast-paced bar environment. Barmate truly represents the next generation of information management for the bar establishment. Let us help you better serve your customers, and your bottom line! For more information on our products or to find the nearest authorized distributor near you, feel free to contact us directly at B Central Receiver Unit E PC Computer D Spout Charger Station All specifications subject to change without notice. Please contact Barmate Corporation for the most current information. 1997, Barmate Corporation. All rights reserved. Patents pending. The Barmate name and logo are trademarks of Barmate Corporation. Windows is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation. All other trademarks are registered to their respective owners.

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