
The 16 Best Event Ideas to Increase Foot Traffic to Your Bar
Attracting consumers to your bar or taproom on busy days like Friday, Saturday, and even Sunday is one thing. But don’t overlook driving foot traffic into your establishment on slow days during the week.
Bringing folks in to drink Monday through Thursday puts pints in hands and boosts your bottom line when you need it most.
Luckily, it isn’t that hard to find ways to increase your foot traffic with events. Just follow these handy tips. Plus, sixteen of the best event ideas we found to help increase traffic and revenue to your bar.
What Is Untappd for Business? A Complete Guide
One of the best tools for your restaurant, brewery, brewpub, bottle shop, or beverage company, Untappd for Business is a digital platform that allows you to create print, digital, or QR code menus and share them with the world’s largest community of beer enthusiasts.
Using our database of over 3,000,000 beers, you can quickly build a menu for your establishment that you can publish to your website, digital menus, Facebook, and the Untappd app. Leveraging QR codes and well-designed custom contactless print and digital menus helps you create a safe environment for your customers and staff.
Most importantly, with Untappd for Business, you can easily track the most popular beers in your area and stay up to date with the latest beer trends. Understanding your customers’ purchase behaviors will help you make strategic customer engagement and inventory decisions.
Plus, you’ll boost your bottom line and increase your sales by maximizing your inventory visibility online to drive new customers to your venue.
With Untappd for Business, you have access to an immense world-class beer database, robust analytics, and custom digital and print menus. All in one powerful tool.
Interested in learning more? Here is the definitive guide to understanding Untappd for Business.
How Drive-Thru Alcohol Helped Breweries During the Pandemic
When the COVID-19 pandemic forced many breweries, restaurants, and bars to close their doors to the public, business owners had to come up with creative solutions to continue generating revenue.
Many beefed up their ecommerce platforms, started using QR codes, or leaned heavily into direct-to-consumer delivery. Another handful thought even further outside the box, instituting drive-thru alcohol programs that provided a safe, contactless, efficient way for customers to purchase alcohol.
While very successful during lockdowns, drive-thru alcohol is less practical, especially now that taprooms have reopened to the public. However, if the past year and half has taught entrepreneurs anything, it’s that it can’t hurt to always be prepared.
It might be helpful to take a look at a couple successful drive-thru alcohol models. Just to keep this tactic in your backpocket. Here are the top considerations if you ever need to create a drive-thru alcohol initiative.
The Advantages of Adding Mocktails to Your Menu
The latest buzz in craft beverages, whether beer, wine, or spirits, is the rapidly growing “better for you” category of drinks. Consumers want tasty choices when they go out for a drink. But that doesn’t always mean they are looking for the alcohol to go along with the flavor.
According to research done by FiorMarkets, non-alcoholic drinks are expected to grow at about eight percent per year, globally, through 2028. That means huge opportunity for non-alcoholic producers and plenty of room for exciting new brands to get in on the game.
Especially when it comes to cocktails, the health-conscious trend has led to lower-calorie and low- or no-alcohol refreshments.
Often dubbed “mocktails,” these alcohol-free drinks are simply cocktails without the alcohol. They can run the gamut from mimicking a classic cocktail like an Old Fashioned (minus the whiskey) or be a completely from-scratch recipe. Either way, the mocktail has opened new creative doors to bartenders all over the country and helped business owners boost their bottom lines.
In the past, non-alcoholic drinks have been an oft-maligned category, dismissed as flavorless, bland beverages. Drinking booze-free used to mean sacrificing flavor and enjoyment. But in the midst of the craft beverage revolution we find breweries and bars proving that notion entirely wrong. Today, bars, restaurants, and breweries across America have developed flavorful, inventive, and attractive mocktail menus that cater to everyone.
These sober drinks are something that you should consider adding to your menu to attract a variety of consumers.
Webinar: How to Take Your Beverage Sales to the Next Level
Wondering how to improve your beverage menu? Interested in improving your beverage sales? Curious about the benefits of Untappd for Business? Looking for advice on how to maximize your Untappd for Business account?
Join PourMyBeer, the self-pour technology that’s helping operators boost beverage sales, for an exclusive webinar on How to Take Your Beverage Sales to the Next Level.
On Tuesday, Oct. 26th, at 2pm CT, PourMyBeer will welcome Tessa Young, VP of Inside Sales at Untappd, and Austin Capps, Inside Sales Manager at Untappd, to share tips and strategies on how Untappd can help you boost your bottom line and bring your beverage business to that next level.
This webinar will feature:

Tessa Young, VP of Inside Sales at Untappd – Tessa has led a sales team dedicated to advancing the global beverage industry through innovative technology since May of 2016. She carries out this mission by growing sales reps and managers that are thoughtful, intentional, and absolute rockstars at challenging and changing the way people do business.

Austin Capps, Inside Sales Manager at Untappd – Austin has been with Untappd for Business since 2018, first as an SDR, then an Account Executive, and now in Management. He has worked with thousands of businesses to help them grow, save time, and engage with their customer base through our unique technology. As an Inside Sales Manager, he leads a team of amazing salespeople as they learn the needs of the hospitality industry and show how we can help meet those needs.
Kids in Taprooms: Good or Bad for Business?
Opening a brewery can have a profound effect on both the local economy and community. Historically, beer gardens have been a gathering space, providing people a home away from home.
With this idea in mind, breweries have grown from welcoming just adults to being spaces for families too.
While being inclusive is an important aspect of any business, it may not be right for every brewery. How do you decide?
It’s important to understand all of the factors when determining if you’d like to allow kids in your brewery.
Here’s what we’ll cover in this article:
The 5 Best Brewery and Bar Event Strategies
Updated: 5/20/2022
Hosting events at your brewery or craft beer bar is a great way to attract new customers and strengthen your brand. Breweries and craft beer bars have become increasingly popular choices for social gatherings among friends and family. And hosting and promoting events will help your business stand out in a crowded marketplace.
It can be as simple as including “plug-and-play” events in your monthly schedule, or as complex as customizing an event around a theme.Keeping events in line with your marketing strategy will help you decide the right mix that will appeal to your specific market and ultimately help you attract and retain new customers.
Top Tips for Designing Your Brewery or Restaurant
There are many facets to running a restaurant. While hiring a chef and developing a cuisine is undoubtedly important, the most front-facing consumer experience is your restaurant design and concept. When conceptualizing your space, you’ll want the two—food and decor—to speak to one another, while staying on board with your brand and vision.
These, along with a handful of ideas we’ll cover when planning your space, will allow for a great jumping off point, whether you devise the space yourself or enlist the help of an interior designer.
How To Find The Best Craft Beer Name
If you’ve ever had daydreams of naming dogs, babies, or hypothetical cover bands, you know the excitement of finding the perfect name that will make its mark for years to come. Naming beers can come with that same excited anticipation or be shrouded in anxiety as you search for the perfect words to represent your beer.
Not only are names a fun way to speak to your brand and product, but it’s also a requirement. In some states such as North Carolina individual beers must be registered with their “fanciful name” (which simply means the name of the specific beer being registered) in order for the beer to be distributed or for off-premise sales.
So how does one go about naming a beer that entices drinkers to choose you above the competition?
