ManageYourBar.com is THE online meeting place and toolkit for bar owners and managers serious about developing and growing their business.

Bar owners use this website to develop training programs for their staff, download forms and templates for their business as well as watch videos with bar industry leaders and listen to 24/7 audio seminars.

So you may be asking, who is Barry Chandler and why should you listen to me....?

Here's my story!

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I was born in Ireland in 1978. I was delivered after tremendous effort and my first words were:
"what's your liquor pour cost?"

I was a strange child....

This is the Commodore Hotel in Cobh, Ireland where I got my first taste of the Hospitality Industry when working as a waiter in 1994.

I knew I was good at my job because when I left to do my final school exams, they hired 16 staff....

In 1997, I left home for the first time to train as Hotel Manager in this amazing 5 Star hotel, Adare Manor in Limerick, Ireland. There isn't a toilet in that hotel that I haven't cleaned. Repeatedly. For 2 years.

From Adare Manor, I was recruited to be part of the Bar Management team responsible for 4 bars and 50 staff in this 4 Star hotel in Galway, Ireland where I spent a happy 12 months...but I got itchy feet and wanted to travel....

So I packed up and headed off for a life on the high seas!

I spent two years as a waiter in an 800 seater restaurant on a Cunard Cruise Ship before being recruited to the 6 Star Seabourn Cruise Line as Food & Beverage Controller. My job involved the sourcing and purchase of all food and beverage stock while traveling from Asia to Afria, to Europe and beyond. I rotated between three different ships for two years.

Don't you just love this picture of me overdressed for looking at an iceberg in Alaska...?

Anyway, at 23 I was the youngest Food & Beverage Controller in the cruise line's history, I reduced on-hand stock levels to their lowest of all time, freeing up cash and beat budget cost savings each year I was there. I LOVED this job!

But you can't live on the water for ever. Otherwise we would have been born with gills and fins...so it was back to Ireland in 2004 where I setup Ireland's first dedicated Food & Beverage Control Consultancy working with more than 100 bars, restaurants & hotels each year to help reduce their costs and identify new revenue streams.

If you are in Ireland and you need these services, click on our company logo on the right:

This company now leads the way in retail, liquor and food inventory control services in Ireland with some of Ireland's leading companies using our services.

 

In 2005 after many requests from our hospitality clients looking for help with templates, spreadsheets and information to assist when we were not working with them, we setup a dedicated website where all of these tools could be downloaded. This is called Barkeeper.ie and we have helped more than 2000 hospitality businesses with their training and policy implementation needs as a result.

In 2007, Barkeeper.ie was voted Ireland's best Business2Business Website at the National Digital Media Awards! That's me not letting go of the trophy!

Fast forward to 2008, and I met the girl that changed my life. It didn't matter that she was from Ohio and I was from Ireland! So, in 2008, I moved to Ohio, we got engaged and will be getting married later this year!

After settling in the good old US of A, I realized that there was no similar service available online to Bar Owners similar to what I had set up in Ireland.

Well, let me tell you, we Irish know a thing or two about bars and pubs....

....so I recruited a team of experienced bar & club professionals to help build ManageYourBar.com exclusively for the US bar and club industry.

We currently count more than 100 bars and clubs around the US as members and look forward to welcoming many more! Are you a member yet?

If not, click here to find out more right now