Why Bad Things Happen To Good Bars

From The American Mixologist

Doing something because “it’s the way it has been done in the past,” in reality, is to do something because it is familiar and may only serve to perpetuate a costly, inefficient or otherwise unfounded practice.

Familiarity acts like a cataract on perspective, impairing the decision-making process. Engaged with day to day concerns, most of us spend untold hours in our operation seeing things as they are and not as they could or should be, growing to accept the norm as the final objective. In most instances, that type of thinking process proves costly, especially behind the bar.

Fresh perspective is a consultant’s stock and trade. They observe, scrutinize and question your business unfettered by the obscuring effect of familiarity. It’s one of the more valuable attributes they bring to the job. That mind set is attainable by challenging the concept of “business as usual.”

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