Bar & Restaurant Start-up Services for New Locations
Chicago Bar Shop offers basic and advanced start up services to new bar and restaurants. All-inclusive and a la carte options are available.
- Restaurant Design and Development
- Architectural plans, drawings, permits/consulting
- Business plans and theme development
- Bar and Restaurant Financing
- Setting up vendor accounts (food, alcohol, beer, wine, and office supply distributors)
- Websites, marketing, social media registration/planning/content creation, branding
- Transition managers- provide mentor to manage the day to day as you get established
Restaurant design, & innovative hospitality technology solutions
We are restaurant designers with expertise in integrating cutting edge hospitality innovations. Through our strategic partnerships with top technology providers, we can help you implement:
- New POS systems & custom POS hardware & software solutions
- Inventory management systems to replace outdated/under-performing practices
- Digital signage, menu boards, kiosks, business compliance, and advertising solutions
- Bar and Restaurant Technology Solution Financing
- Updating and increasing website efficiency, marketing, social media registration/planning/content creation/automation, branding
- Automated, smart, and connected bar and restaurant productivity and operations solutions.
2018 NRA Show Featured Hospitality Solutions & Partners
Intel, the Chicago Bar Shop and our ecosystem partners have joined forces to bring together restaurant design, operations and management expertise with innovative hospitality technology solutions.
The Chicago Bar Shop is a one-stop-shop resource for bar and restaurant owners with decades of experience designing and building exceptional bars and restaurants and owning and running restaurant operations.
Intel is at the center of a vibrant ecosystem of organizations, offering technologies and services that deliver Internet of Things (IoT) solutions to the restaurant and retail hospitality industries. The IoT is a robust network of devices, all embedded with electronics, software, and sensors that enable them to exchange and analyze data. The IoT has been transforming the way we live for nearly two decades, paving the way for responsive solutions, innovative products and services, supply chain efficiencies, and ultimately, amazing new ways to do business.
Aava Mobile POS Solutions - Increase your average billing amount through more efficient workflows. Orders are sent to the kitchen quicker and the bill can be conveniently paid at the table. Frees up the staff to take care of the guests.
Bluefox.io - Get accurate, real-time foot traffic analytics and communicate with customers at the moment of truth instantly whenever they come within 250 feet of your business. BlueFox.io solutions allow brands to identify and communicate with new and existing customers based on physical proximity, without the need for apps or Bluetooth beacons. BlueFox Count provides valuable marketing data and advanced analytics like real-time and historical traffic counts, cumulative impressions, dwell times, recurrent visits, and peak hours. BlueFox Engage then facilitates SMS messaging to customers each and every time they come near your brand with featured product information, advertisements, photos, coupons, promotions, specials, and contests.
Coates Drive-thru Menu Board & Self-Service Kiosk - Uniting cutting-edge technology and detailed behavioral research, our outdoor hardware solutions make your message stand out in the most extreme conditions. An unparalleled Drive Thru solution to improve order accuracy, speed, increase sales and innovate the outdoor customer experience. Build deeper customer relationships by making ordering fun and innovative. Our digital self-service kiosks deliver efficiency and customization. Switchboard content management system uses real time data and rich analytics to strengthen individual connections, by showing the right product, to the right customer, at the right time.
HP Retail Point-of- Sale Solutions, ElitePOS and HP RP9 - All-in-one point of sale systems that have a design that is both stylish to match your restaurant, hardened to survive the harsh usage in a restaurant, and versatile so it can be placed or mounted anywhere in your venue.
Ryarc Analytics Compliance Manager (ACM) - Reach the right place at the right time with the right message. An intelligent software solution for managing network devices, capturing sensor data and remotely supporting Digital Gateways and Media Playback Devices. ACM also offers complete management of Digital Content Messaging displayed along with interaction via Touch Points with the effectiveness of Business Compliance through captured analytics provided by cameras and sensors at the specific location.
Salt Flats - Salt Flats is an Innovation House creating the future with entrepreneurs, startups and corporations through a revolutionary process to explore, experiment and execute. Inside the Salt Flats Innovation House is a curated ecosystem that transform teams, creates rapid learning, and builds new business models. Business and culture transformation are the results of our services.
SinkTech Automation of Three Compartment Sinks NEW - The solution provides automation of three compartment sinks (for Sanitation Compliance and Water saving resources) in food and beverage locations.
This is a new release, product launch. First to market - a complete solution to an ongoing business problem in the food & beverage industry. A complete automation of the three compartment sink, an area that has been ignored and unchanged for over 100 years. By automating the three compartment sink with consistent levels of soap, sanitizer and the maintaining the correct temperature of water at all times, this brings considerable savings to the food/beverage establishment in the form of conservation, compliance, and increased customer retention.
Cost savings, efficiency, simplicity and compliance:
- Water savings- reduces the usage of water in restaurants
- Labor savings- reduces time spent on manual filling & draining, adding soap & sanitizer, ordering replenishment of soap & sanitizer
- Reduces the cost of soap and sanitizer by providing a automated dispenser
- Reduces potential for health compliance tickets
Customer retention due to consistency in glassware cleanliness
SteadyServ Technologies - Beer people who believe that accurate, timely data-driven decisions result in major advantages for retailers. Creates tools and generates the insights needed to sell every drop. Grow revenue with smart solutions that take the guesswork out of beverage management. Sign-up for a demo with a beverage consultant to discover what your POS data isn't telling you.