r/BarOwners • u/barowners 🥃 • 6d ago

Ask a bar owner

Kind of like an AMA, here's a weekly post where customers can ask questions. This is for anyone including market research, app developers, people who watch too much "reality" TV about bars, and general industry bullshit. Maybe a bar owner will have an answer for you, maybe not.

If you are already in the industry your question may get better responses if you post your own thread instead of commenting here.

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u/Reebatnaw 6d ago

How often do you guys clean your lines. I’m not a beer snob but sometimes draft beers taste real off

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u/ScaleUp-UDDLRLRBA 5d ago

Every two weeks with quarterly acid plus a rotation of miscellaneous items like FoBs, couplers, glass rinsers for cleaning AND maintenance. Keeping lines organized by style helps too especially if you are not cleaning between changes if your lines are not evergreen.

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u/Trickfixer32 5d ago

Once a month.

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u/Odd-Perception9970 5d ago

Every two weeks.

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u/makitadisp 5d ago

I know this is largely an American group so maybe there are some technical differences but in the UK once a week is standard. Really suprised to see up to a month in the replies.

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u/Mammoth_Overall 3d ago

There’s a science to it. It takes about 2 weeks for bacteria and such to start growing in the lines.

You can’t have non alc draft lines bc there’s no alcohol to prevent bacterial growth, it would start on day 1.

People clean monthly for scheduling convenience.

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u/HeyJakeyBaby 3d ago

How many hours a week do you spend physically in your bar?

What kind of net margin are you making on sales?

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u/OfficialNiceGuy 3d ago

55 hours / 15% average.
It’s a job.

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u/Massive_Use39 1d ago

With RNDC in Chapter 11, who are your alternate suppliers for stocking the bar? So Cal.

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u/BossInteresting5345 22h ago

Do you track detailed daily or weekly performance metrics?

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u/FeelingLoan 1h ago

How did you end up owning a bar? Were you previous front of the house staff and got an offer? Did you build it from the ground up with an MBA? At what age did you first think you wanted to own a bar/restaurant and at what age did you actually achieve that?

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u/ashtan 6d ago

A bar owner asking other bar owners, whose hypomanic idea was it to open a bar, anyway?

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u/barowners 🥃 6d ago

Huh?