2023 Tap Room Playbook – From Lines to Food Trends, Get Tips to Run Your Brewery Better
The taproom! The epicenter of your brand. We’re excited to have a conversation on how you can make the most of your guests’ time at your brewery. We hope that you leave with greater strategies for success and inspiration to further maximize your brewery’s taproom experience. After all, it’s not just about making great beer, but also putting out world class hospitality.
We’ll be joined by:
Andrew Burman, Other Half Brewing
Mike Corneille, Pryes Brewing
Tim McLaughlin, GoTab
Tony Ren, Maui Brewing
We’ll Discuss:
✅Lines – How lines impact the guest experience in your tap room and ultimately, your bottom line.
✅Labor – How to use trend data to predict labor needs and adapt to unexpected peaks
✅Food – Key trends to take advantage of to drive higher beer sales.
✅Technology – What are the most important technologies a brewery needs to consider implementing and what percent of their budget should they plan to invest?
✅Payments – How to provide options that will drive higher check averages and guest satisfaction.
Tim McLaughlin is Co-Founder and CEO of GoTab, Inc., a leading restaurant commerce platform that helps more than 1,000 large- and mid-sized restaurants, breweries, bars, hotels and other venues run lean, profitable operations while making guests even more satisfied. Started in 2016, GoTab processes over $250M in transactions per year with operations across 35 U.S. states, Canada and growing. The company offers a host of solutions, including its all-in-one point-of-sale (POS) and property management system (PMS) integrations, mobile ordering and payment features, and kitchen management systems. An experienced e-commerce executive, board member and restaurateur, prior to founding GoTab, McLaughlin led Siteworx, Inc., a mid-sized digital experience agency with clients including PayPal, Goldman Sachs, VeriSign, Bain & Co., and Thermo Fisher Scientific, to a successful PE exit in 2013. Subsequent to Siteworx, Tim and his wife Jen co-founded Caboose Brewing Co., an upscale brewery and farm-to-table concept based in Fairfax, Virginia. Tim is also owner of craft beer and cider distributor, Ferment Nation. In 2022, Insider named Tim to its annual Restaurant Innovators Power Players list, and Inc. recognized GoTab as a Power Partner for the company’s proven track record supporting entrepreneurs and helping startups grow.