Uptown Network vs Backbar

Successful restauranteurs created the Uptown Network for leaders in the hospitality industry.  It has been featured in the Nation’s Restaurant News, the Miami Herald, Worth Magazine, Hospitality Technology, and MSNBC.  Prominent restaurants such as Darden / The Capital Grille, Shula’s Steak Houses, Norman's at The Ritz Carlton Orlando, and Bull & Bear at The Waldorf Astoria Orlando use the Uptown Network to enhance their guests’ dining experience, increase wine sales, empower staff and improve customer loyalty.   Enable dinner guests to make wine purchases without intimidation while giving your service team the confidence to deliver exceptional wine service to all of their tables at the same time easily.  Have a team of sommeliers on staff? Now they can share their wealth of knowledge with all guests on demand, enhancing the overall dining experience.     Uptown Network has proven to increase wine sales, reduce costly menu reprints and service team training expenses while enhancing social media presence, turning customer discounts into rewards and increasing repeat business.   Please download Uptown Network to find the perfect wine, then go visit one of our member restaurants to enjoy a well-paired meal. If you have a great restaurant of your own, please call us at 855-577-7555 for additional information on how you can join Uptown Network and have a customized mobile presence! Benefits - For Guests:   Enhances their dining experience Tracks wines they like Provides rewards and increases their friends and followers   Benefits - For Venues   Provides an immediate increase in wine sales Improves ranking on commonly used search engines Drives repeat business Increases new business     Features:   Allows quick search of entire wine by region, varietal, food pairing, price range, flavor profile, and 90 point ratings.   Display wines individually by bottle or label with tasting notes for each.   Requires no additional hardware and is fully functional without WiFi .   Uses Cloud technology for instant updates.   Easily manages the 86 list without reprinting.   Uses a badge system for highlighting special pricing, rare vintages, 90-point ratings, and even marketplace positioning for vendors.   Enables location-based branding with easy customization to any venue and automatically changes based on iPad user’s geographical location.   Collects customer emails available for your own internal use.   Ability to sort and refine wines available by the glass. Allows for special “Sale” pricing by the bottle and by the glass.   Use a rewards network for improving customer loyalty.   Full app support via email and telephone with contract.  A quick and easy tool to help restaurants inventory their wines.

Backbar helps restaurants and bars increase profitability, decrease COGS, and run a more efficient beverage program. Backbar, the only free bar inventory app, saves hours on counting inventory and simplifies bar management. Backbar not only solves inventory management, but also streamlines vendor purchasing and tracking, menu costing, and financial tracking. Here are some of the many features of Backbar: - Quickly count inventory across many locations, devices and users, syncing in real-time - Count inventory in multiple locations and on multiple devices simultaneously - Scan barcodes to instantly find and count products - Streamline purchasing by sending orders to all your distributors with a single tap - Track past orders and invoices for all your distributors - Connect to your point-of-sale (POS) system for real-time inventory depletions - Save digital invoices easily by taking a photo - Connect to over 1,300 beverage suppliers for automated product updates and cost changes - Educate staff with tasting notes and drink information - Cost out cocktail recipes and optimize menu pricing - Quickly add a new item from our global database of over 300,000 wines, beers, spirits and other beverages Download the app today and make beverage management easier with Backbar