Pour house: Beer flows but profits slow

Struggling with out-of-control costs, a sports bar chain makes a high-tech correction.

  • By Business Observer Staff
  • | 6:00 a.m. March 1, 2019
WingHouse discovered unacceptable losses stemming from its primary source of sales: draft beer. Courtesy photo.
WingHouse discovered unacceptable losses stemming from its primary source of sales: draft beer. Courtesy photo.
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WingHouse Bar & Grill is known for a straightforward business model: draft beer, pub grub, big-screen TV sports and wait-staff personnel — the WingHouse Girls — who model swimsuits for an annual calendar.

 

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