What to consider behind your bar

When it comes to designing behind your bar, there are some essential items that are required to provide your customers with a positive experience.

Servaclean have listed some of the key things to consider below:

• Key points to consider when planning a new bar system?

Knowing the demographic and market of your establishment will allow you to ensure your bar counter is designed to meet the needs of your venue, your customers and bar staff.  Cocktail stations, hygienic storage shelves for glassware, glasswash facilities, bottle coolers and front facing payment systems are all vital to providing a high-quality, efficient service that will keep customers coming back time and time again.

• What are the key functionality and aesthetic items required when designing your bar area?

Working with an interior designer can make sure that the venue is aesthetically pleasing and working with experienced bar consultants will ensure that the working side of the bar is ergonomic and practical to maximise speed of service and profits.  When considering your customer numbers, a professional bar consultant will be able to guide you with regards to questions such as ‘what volume of glassware’ and ‘what staffing levels’ are required.

• Is there anything your venue can do to be more sustainable?

Investment in the right products is key – A well-insulated ICEChest will keep ice frozen for hours, therefore reducing the frequency to run energy demanding Ice machines saving time, money and helping to reduce CO². Consider Bottle Coolers that have been manufactured in the UK and have a lower energy consumption, helping save money on energy bills, reducing your carbon footprint and check that they can be recycled at the end of their life.

• What can venues implement to speed up service and ease workload for your team?

A well designed under bar system is essential.  A professional company, like Servaclean Bar Systems, can assist with this.  A properly designed bar layout can provide each member of staff with their own workstation.  Dependant on the size of bar required, you can repeat the same layout over multiple stations thus reducing the amount of staff crossover behind the bar.  This ensures everything is in easy reach to allow your staff and bar to work to its full potential improving serving time and increasing profits.   Also, don’t forget to include a Glasswash Station – this needs to be well planned to ensure constant through flow of glassware to cope with the demand from your customers.

• What are the latest bar equipment trends?

The popularity for cocktails is continuing to grow and customers love to be able to show off their purchases on social media.  Including a Drinks Dispense Tray (aka Drinks Platform or Peanut Rail) provides the perfect platform for displaying your cocktail and drinks designs, but also helps keep the bar counter clean, tidy and drip free.

Servaclean have 5 decades’ experience of design, manufacture and installation of under bar systems. If you would like to know more about how our FREE bar design and planning service can help you create the perfect behind the bar for your business contact us today on 01274 390038 or email your enquiry to info@servaclean.co.uk