Finish 2024 Strong: How to Optimize Your Brewery Operations

As summer winds down, it’s crucial for craft beverage owners to make the most of the remaining sunshine. You want to go out with a bang and prepare for the upcoming holiday seasons! 

To maximize your brewery’s revenue for the rest of the year, focus on the following: 

• Streamline inventory management
• Increase guest satisfaction
• Boost overall profitability

Keep reading for best practices and tools designed for growing breweries like yours. 

Quench Every Thirst: Enhance Your Brewery Inventory Management

Effective inventory management is the backbone of any successful brewery. Accurate and up-to-date inventory helps you take control of your stock, ensures you have key ingredients on hand, and prevents waste.

Centralize Your Operations & Save Time

By centralizing your operations, you can streamline processes and improve efficiency across your brewery. 

Arryved’s all-in-one platform allows you to manage your entire inventory from a single interface, reducing the complexity of juggling multiple systems. This saves time for your staff and reduces the chance of costly errors. 

Automation is a game-changer for brewery operations. Arryved Brewery Management helps you automate manual tasks such as inventory tracking and ordering, freeing up valuable time for your team to focus on giving your guests the outing they deserve.

Get Real-Time Inventory Visibility & Meet Guest Demand

A comprehensive view into your brewery inventory helps you track stock levels, identify trends, and make informed decisions about ordering and production. Real-time reporting lets you track inventory across products and locations, and prevent waste. 

Managing inventory across multiple locations can be challenging and time-consuming. Arryved Brewery Management simplifies it by allowing you to track inventory levels at each location, ensuring you can meet demand without overstocking or running out of key products.

Imagine you run out of ice for the slushie machine your guests adore. Now they’re sweating and you’re sweating! Real-time inventory updates let you and your team focus on service, not ingredients. 

Plan Production to Consistently Serve Great Beer

The best way to maintain consistency and quality in your beer? Sync your inventory management with your production processes. This allows your team to track recipes, costs, and batch statuses. 

Arryved’s craft-centric platform empowers you to do just that. With detailed insights into each unique batch, you can optimize production and ultimately reduce costs. The Arryved Brewery Management platform syncs your production with your inventory, so your beverages turn out as great as your customers expect from you. 

Data synchronization across your operations is also vital for maintaining accuracy and efficiency. Arryved ensures that all your data is up-to-date and accessible from a single platform, facilitating smoother service.

Use Flexible Ordering, Payments, & Service Models

Guests want to hang out with their friends and family, not wait in line. Today’s digital environment encourages craft beverage spots to flex with guest preferences. 

Flexible ordering and payment options enhance experiences for all guests. Arryved’s mobile POS and QR code tool, OpenTab, helps you meet your guests’ changing needs efficiently.

Take orders and process payments anywhere in your brewery using a POS that moves with you. Guests have the freedom to order from the bar, a server with a hand held, or a QR code. They can even use all of the above, and claim their existing bar tab from their table! This service freedom maximizes guest convenience and staff efficiency.

In fact, efficient service is directly linked to guest satisfaction. By streamlining your ordering and payment processes with Arryved, you reduce wait times and provide a seamless experience that keeps guests coming back. Plus, the increased guest satisfaction improves word of mouth evangelism!

On your busiest nights, flexible ordering tools from Arryved also help breweries speed up table turns without compromising on the quality of products or experiences. 

Adapt to Your Brewery Tools with Flexible Service Models

The peak heat of summer days tends to be breweries’ busiest periods. Make sure your team and service model are up to the challenge with a flexible service model. 

Here are some strategies that are stretchier than Simone Biles herself: 

• Adapt to your busy periods: Sunshine after an afternoon rainstorm can result in a packed taproom quickly. When you don’t have all hands on deck but still need to service a surplus of guests, flexible ordering options help maintain quality service levels. 
• Curate service to guest preferences: Just because it’s busy doesn’t mean Grandpa Joe won’t brave the bar line. Some people simply prefer ordering over the counter, so make sure all options are available to meet all needs. 
• Offer a variety of ordering options: Enhance convenience and satisfaction by letting guests order online, in-person, or from their phones.

Get Trendy to Boost Profitability and Guest Satisfaction

Staying ahead of industry trends is key to maximizing profitability and guest satisfaction. Arryved POS helps you adapt to changing market dynamics and make data-driven decisions.

Adapt to the Shift from Beer to Food

One of the most surprising takeaways from the webinar What Top Breweries Are Doing Right: Winning Strategies To Grow Taproom Sales was the rise of food in taprooms. 

Food has proven to be a significant driver of revenue growth for top breweries in 2024. Food sales have jumped from 15% of total sales in January 2021 to over 20% by March 2024. It makes sense, right? Food in a taproom:

• Encourages longer stays and larger groups
• Meets the needs of families
• Increases guest loyalty to your brewery
• Boosts tab sizes

As the importance of food rises in the brewery industry, diversifying your menu can attract a broader community of guests. Arryved provides the tools to manage your expanded offerings efficiently. By offering a diverse menu, you can also increase your profitability.

One of those helpful tools is Arryved’s MarginEdge integration, which is a cloud-based solution for invoice processing, restaurant management, and accounting. MarginEdge provides accurate sales data to streamline and automate your most tedious food and beverage management tasks. 

Merchandise Sales Are Unpredictable, But Worthwhile 

While Bart Watson also shared in the webinar that merchandise sales have seen recent declines, they still hold potential for revenue growth opportunities. Bart’s research indicates that peak merchandise sales for top breweries are typically between 2-4pm, but there are ways to incentivize more. 

According to industry data, promotions drive merchandise sales. Arryved’s platform allows you to easily manage and promote merchandise offers, identifying which products and promos attract the most buyers. This data informs your merchandising strategy for the long-term! 

Strategize for Guest-Friendly Pricing

Effective pricing strategies are crucial for maximizing brewery revenue. Plus, keeping an eye on market trends allows you to set competitive prices. Bart from the Brewers Association notes that the average standard pint price is about $7 in 2024. 

Understanding industry benchmarks, like the average pint price, helps you set prices appropriately.  Arryved’s comprehensive reporting tools provide the insights you need to make informed pricing decisions, too.

Here’s an industry trend that’ll never go out of style: discounts.

Offering strategic discounts during holidays and peak times can boost sales. Arryved’s platform makes it easy to manage these promotions internally, and to track the guests that claim and redeem them. 

Give Guests an Experience They’ll Remember

Guest engagement doesn’t end with a coupon. Make the rest of 2024 memorable for your community with taproom events. Special events and interactions are what’s going to set you apart from the taproom down the block. 

Arryved tools help you make data-driven decisions to enhance engagement and ensure your efforts resonate with your community. 

Advanced Reporting Identifies Your Summer Successes

Advanced reporting tools track key metrics and identify successful strategies. Arryved’s comprehensive reporting makes it easy to see what’s working and where you can improve.

Access Comprehensive Reporting Tools

Having access to detailed reports helps you make informed decisions. Arryved’s reporting tools give you a clear view of your operations from one centralized dashboard, helping you optimize for success.

Making decisions based on data rather than intuition leads to happier staff and guests all year long!

Accounting Integrations Streamline Information Sharing

Efficient financial management is essential for any brewery. Arryved’s accounting integrations streamline your financial processes, providing real-time insights and simplifying management.

Arryved Pay is a comprehensive solution that simplifies payment processing and integrates seamlessly with your other tools. This ensures smooth financial operations and enhances the overall guest experience. Plus, Arryved Pay provides real-time insights, helping you stay on top of your revenue and expenses.

Finish Your Summer Strong: Get Tools Built for Your Brewery

Ready to take your brewery to the next level? Discover how Arryved’s suite of tools can optimize your brewery’s operations, enhance customer satisfaction, and boost profitability. Get a demo today and see for yourself!