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Use the Bar Menu behind the bar

The Bar Menu (/menus/bar) is the only surface written for the person pouring rather than the person choosing. That difference drives everything about it.

It can show what is coming next

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The Bar Menu can include the Up Next beverage for each tap alongside what is currently pouring.

The Bar Menu is built around this: staff need to know what replaces a keg, and the Website Menu deliberately omits it. When a keg blows mid-rush, the difference between a smooth changeover and a scramble is whether the person at the tap already knows what goes on next, without opening another screen or asking.

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Print Menu produces a PDF of the current state.

A printed bar sheet solves a problem screens do not: it survives a wet hand, it does not sleep, and it can be taped where a monitor will not fit. Because it is generated from the same taplist as everything else, reprinting after a tap change takes seconds rather than being a document somebody has to remember to edit.

Print a fresh one when the tap list changes, not on a schedule. A stale printed sheet behind the bar is worse than none, because staff trust it.

It uses the same design controls

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The Bar Menu shares the design toolbar with the other surfaces, so you can strip it down to what staff actually need. This is the surface where showing fewer fields usually wins — tap number, beer, and pour size read faster mid-service than a full description does.

What it is not

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The Bar Menu is not a guest menu with extra detail, and it is not where you decide what is pouring. Tap assignments happen in Run the On Tap workspace; this surface displays the result for the people working it.

What to do next

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