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BarBack Multi-Tool "9 Beverage Tools in 1"

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BarBack Multi-Tool "9 Beverage Tools in 1"
on: March 26, 2012, 11:28:32 AM
Found this recently funded project @ Kickstarter:The Original BarBack Multi-Tool

Designed to provide up to 9 essential tools and functions, commonly needed by all pro-bartenders, restaurant servers, and home-recreational mixologists alike






Here is the link to the website: http://www.originalbarback.com

and the patent link: Barback Multi-Tool Patent
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Re: BarBack Multi-Tool "9 Beverage Tools in 1"
Reply #1 on: March 26, 2012, 03:48:56 PM
If i was a bartender or waiter that would be my MY of choice  :tu:


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Re: BarBack Multi-Tool "9 Beverage Tools in 1"
Reply #2 on: March 26, 2012, 03:54:23 PM
Looks cool, only see one problem. If it is going to be used behind a bar in the States it will have to be washed in high temperature bleach water from time to time. I wonder how the light will hold up?
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Re: BarBack Multi-Tool "9 Beverage Tools in 1"
Reply #3 on: March 26, 2012, 04:13:10 PM
It won't see any professional use.

Bartenders are busy people- the faster they move the more people they server.  The more people they serve the more money they make.  No pro bartender is going to take the time to fold out individual tools, then fold them away again afterwards.  Most bars that I know of use bottle openers that come in cases of beer as part of different promotions because they are cheap (free) to replace if someone walks off with it.  It might not sound like much to say that it only takes two seconds to pull the tool out, fold out the right one, then another second to put it away, but that's three seconds per drink.  In an average evening a bartender could serve hundreds of drinks- thousands on a weekend in a downtown bar.  Multiply 1,000 drinks by three seconds, which is (obviously) 3,000 seconds or 50 minutes.  That's almost an hour of downtime where a decent bartender could have served (assuming 1000 customers in an 8 hour shift= 125 customers per hour) another 100+ people, and, assuming each one of those leaves a dollar tip, the bartender loses over $100/shift.

Mind you bartenders I know won't take the time to figure that out- they'll be nice and offer to try it out but when things get busy it'll get thrown in the sink and forgotten.

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Re: BarBack Multi-Tool "9 Beverage Tools in 1"
Reply #4 on: March 26, 2012, 11:52:44 PM
I think you are right, this is going to work just for personal and not really any professional use

It actually reminds me of the Eatensil



It has everything you need but it will be more practical to have separate utensils



What I found interesting is that the general public is apparently willing to invest in MT's development.


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Re: BarBack Multi-Tool "9 Beverage Tools in 1"
Reply #5 on: March 27, 2012, 05:01:39 AM
That Barback tool seems somewhat - ENORMOUS - for what it does. :P
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Re: BarBack Multi-Tool "9 Beverage Tools in 1"
Reply #6 on: March 27, 2012, 10:11:09 AM
That Barback tool seems somewhat - ENORMOUS - for what it does. :P

Indeed ! :salute: they should take another more minimalist approach


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Re: BarBack Multi-Tool "9 Beverage Tools in 1"
Reply #7 on: March 27, 2012, 11:37:21 AM
This guy should try a SAK


 

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