Michael Mosteller's day begins as the Memphis nightclub scene winds down and the bars close their doors. Five days a week at 4 a.m. Mosteller is on the job, weighing, measuring and counting bottles of wine, liquor and beer for Memphis area bars. Mosteller is a local franchise owner of To

It's quiet in the morning inside the nightclub 815 L Street in Sacramento as Jim Bonfield scans and measures the bottles behind the bar. There are five bartender stations, more than a thousand bottles and an eerie calm. The bar won't open for hours. Bonfield is doing an audit that will t

Sheree Davies points scanner at a partly empty bottle. Davies performs regular audits of liquor supplies to determine if consumption matches cash receipts. Like most auditors, Sheree Davies has a keen eye for waste and misappropriation. Only instead of balance sheets and income statements, she sc

Kosta Callas bellied up to the bar, opened his laptop computer, readied his Palm Pilot, set up his scales and went to work. There was no friendly chitchat with the barkeep or other patrons. At 8:30 in the morning, he mostly had the place to himself. It was eerily quiet at Benny's Restaurant

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In the early days, when he was struggling to get his fledgling company off the ground, Barry Driedger spent many evenings each week sitting in bars, nursing a drink and watching the action. He wasn't there to unwind after a tough day at the office, however. For him it was strictly business.

Bar patrons who get a "really good" drink at the hands of their favorite bartenders could cost an establishment thousands of dollars a month in lost revenue. So say Roger and Donna Hopkins, owners of the Bevinco, a company whose services help San Antonio nightclub, bar and restaurant own

It's a Thursday night, and Mike Hoffman looks like just another guy nursing a drink at a Manhattan bar. But he's not here to pour out his heart to the bartender; he's been hired to watch her pour. The problem, says the bar manager who hired Hoffman: "When we're there, everybody&#

When Melanie Church first bought Mason's Bar and Grill in Bemidji, she had a liquor loss of more than 30 percent. Now, with the use of a laptop computer, scanner, scale and a little expertise, that number is down to less than 5 percent. But that's only after she did a lot of research and sta

Bevinco Bar Systems Ltd. recently ranked within Entrepreneur magazine's 2006 Franchise 500 for its fourth consecutive year. Eligible companies are judged on the following criteria: objective, quantifiable measures of a franchise operation, financial strength and stability, growth rate, and the