Restaurants and bars face several challenges in maintaining margins for their wine and spirits sales. Estimates show up to 40% of wine is lost to spoilage, especially when offering wine by the glass. Shrinkage alone can reduce profitability by 25%. Hermet can realistically bring these losses down to zero, while also solving other major pain points for operators. It completely transforms wine by the glass economics for a restaurant or bar.
The Hermet system literally records the time and amount of every single pour. The Softshell app can be set to provide alerts every time an over-pour or unusual event occurs. It can also alert you when a particular SKU is about to run out, factoring in the rate at which it is being consumed. When integrated with your POS system it can even alert you when a pour is not associated with a sale. You can even assign a Hermet to a table and let the customer pour themselves, with every milimeter poured registering in the POS system.
Filling the Hermet is a breeze. Bulk Razortank (9-200L) has an RFID tag as does each Hermet. Staff simply scans both from Softshell’s filling page, plugs the Hermet into the Razortank’s tamper-proof cap coupler and sucks the beverage into the Hermet. Alternatively, sliding a Hermet “Barnacle” onto the bottle before filling will record the filling data automatically. No filling machines or gas purgers required.
The Hermet smart bottle can be washed in a standard commercial dishwasher that every restaurant has. Empty Razortanks are saved until they fill one of the self-addressed cardboard boxes that they arrive in, and are simply mailed back or picked up by supplier on next delivery. Beverage shipping costs are reduced by at least 50%. Free floor space for inventory is doubled and supply chain emissions are reduced by over 95% vs. legacy chain.
Restaurants spend thousands of dollars on inert gas replacement wine preserving units to address only one of the pain points that Hermet solves. Imagine your opened wine lasting months instead of days without needing to buy inert gas canisters and clean tubing, no more missing liquor bottles, no more free drinks for friends, no more over-pours for big tippers, all while having real-time visibility of all inventory and every single pour right in the palm of your hand.