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Improving the existing bar

Ok - so I wanted to write another post about the "cocktail-robots" however, when I've read again my last post, I guessed, that it was pretty elaborate and comprehensive. However the topic is strangely fascinating me. I love gizmos - am a bit techy [despite of my age] - and I am also very interested in the future of my job expertise. Instead of writing another post about the same subject, I am now try to gain distance and look at the technological elements, which should be improved in a modern bar. Hence the topic: which elements in the existing bar faulty and what can we develop, to make it better. POS and payment: If somebody asks me, what element is the most distracting, the least effective... there is definitely one thing, which directly comes to my mind: the whole financial interaction process. Posting a drink in a POS system [or in an antiquated register cash register like in Canon]. Prepare the drink [most of the time a bartender would create the drink a...

The Next Big Thing in Hospitality

Here a video of the latest gadget, which is in the latest process of development: Google Glass. I have published an article about the use of it. Following a excerpt of it… you can read the whole piece on my website dominikschachtsiek.wordpress.com : The last big thing should have been interactive menus. And really – slowly some of the most innovative venues are implementing those. Unfortunately there are not a lot of restauranteurs, which completely understood this technology. Instead of simplify the experience, they implement an electronic menu to become geeky; at an expense of the customer. The investment into iPad [or other tablet] menus, doesn’t only include the devises themselves. One massive part of the investment goes towards the human-machine interface. It doesn’t make any sense to use the tablet as e-reader. It just makes sense to use it to give the guest a rich experience and always show the customer, what he/she wants. I have pointed this already out be...