Englewood, CO—AccuBar announced that
Wolfgang Puck Fine Dining Group, which includes the renowned
Spago and Chinois restaurants, has chosen AccuBar to manage
its bar and wine cellar operations.
The company has completed installation in
its five Las Vegas locations: Spago and Chinois, in The Forum
Shops at Caesar’s Palace; Postrio, in the Venetian Resort
Hotel Casino; Trattoria del Lupo, at
Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino; and
Wolfgang Puck Bar & Grill in the MGM
Grand. Four other restaurants in Southern California and
Hawaii will follow, company officials say.
Although AccuBar is an industry leader for its ability to
simplify many aspects of beverage management, it was the
system’s capabilities in the wine cellar that initially
attracted the attention of Puck’s management team. The
PDA-based system enables users to much more easily account for
the growing wine lists that are so prevalent in the fine
dining sector.
Tim Wilson, Wolfgang Puck’s beverage director and a previous
AccuBar user, said putting in AccuBar was a top priority. “One
of the first systems we have implemented since I started is
the AccuBar system with the new Pocket PC MC-50 [handheld],
which is an even better system than I had been using
previously. The omni-directional barcode reader makes scanning
bottles even easier, the color screen is brighter and easier
to read, and the extended search look-up function makes
finding items in the database much faster.
“The team at AccuBar has made a great
system even better,” Wilson said. “In addition to developing
an excellent product, AccuBar has always provided superlative
tech support.”
AccuBar uses a handheld equipped with a
barcode scanner and server-based management software to
simplify many aspects of the typically troublesome process
required to track liquor, wine and beer in hospitality
operations. Using AccuBar to modernize this crucial process
results in substantial labor savings, increased staff
accountability, and more timely information about problem
areas in beverage operations.