How much could hands free make you?

Wasted beer is beer you had to buy on top of the beer you sold, so it costs you more than the waste percentage sounds like it should.

A half barrel holds 124 sixteen ounce pints. At 20% waste only 99 of them reach a customer, so you buy extra kegs just to cover the foam. Bottoms Up fills from the bottom of the cup, so there is no pour side foam loss and all 124 pints go in a glass.

Per month, at $175 a keg. Spread across the pints you sell, that is $0.35 a pint. The yearly figure on the page is this times twelve.

We do not count line cleaning, comps, or the pints lost changing a keg. Those are real, we just cannot put a number on yours.

The average keg price depends highly on how craft heavy your offering is. Take this into consideration when setting this variable. We see it landing between $150 - $185 quite often.

When the beers pour themselves, your staff is free to make drinks, close checks, and ask "Can I get you anything else?" The research is clear: the better the service, the longer people stay and the more they spend.

We only count your busy times, because that's when automated pours free your staff up to help you sell more.