Reducing beverage shrinkage and monitoring beverage dispensing employees to reduce revenue loss
AssigneeNick Moezidis
InventorNICK MOEZIDIS
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Abstract
Beverage shrinkage monitoring technology is disclosed and is used to reduce beverage shrinkage at bars, clubs, restaurants, and other establishments that dispense beverages. Bottles are topped with wireless (RFID/Bluetooth/WiFi) enabled liquor/wine nozzles that only pour when handled by appropriate staff members who wear RFID wristbands or bracelets. The wireless (RFID/Bluetooth/WiFi) enabled liquor/wine nozzles also report sales to a point of sales (POS) system. Beer taps include proprietary wireless (RFID/Bluetooth/WiFi) enabled beer tap adapters that are mounted to or embedded in the beer taps.
Claims10
A bottled beverage shrinkage reducing system that prevents unauthorized and inappropriate dispensation of bottled liquid, said bottled beverage shrinkage reducing system comprising:
- a staff bracelet that fits on a wrist of an operator authorized to dispense beverages at an establishment, the staff bracelet comprising a staff bracelet RFID tag that uniquely identifies the operator as being authorized to dispense beverages at the establishment;
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- a shrinkage reducing bottle nozzle that affixes to an open end of a beverage bottle with a liquid beverage in the beverage bottle, said shrinkage reducing bottle nozzle comprising a bottle nozzle RFID communication device that detects when the staff bracelet RFID tag is proximately positioned to pour the beverage from the beverage bottle, wherein the shrinkage reducing bottle nozzle opens a flow nozzle when the staff bracelet RFID tag is detected to be proximately positioned to pour the beverage from the beverage bottle to allow the operator to pour beverage from the beverage bottle.
A beer tap shrinkage reducing system that prevents unauthorized and inappropriate dispensation of liquid from a beer tap, said beer tap shrinkage reducing system comprising:
- a staff bracelet that fits on a wrist of an operator authorized to dispense beer at an establishment, the staff bracelet comprising a staff bracelet RFID tag that uniquely identifies the operator as being authorized to dispense beer at the establishment;
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- a shrinkage reducing beer tap comprising a beer tap handle, a beer tap RFID communication device at the beer tap handle, a beer tap line and spout, and a beer tap RFID control device that receives a signal from the beer tap RFID communication device when the staff bracelet RFID tag is positioned proximate to the beer tap handle, wherein when the beer tap handle is pulled forward by the operator, the beer tap RFID communication device sends a signal to the beer tap RFID control device to dispense liquid when the staff bracelet RFID tag is nearby the beer tap RFID communication device.
A shrinkage reducing and monitoring system that reduces beverage shrinkage and revenue loss comprising:
- a shrinkage reducing and monitoring cloud server;
- a liquid assets database that is communicably connected to the shrinkage reducing and monitoring cloud server to manage liquid beverage inventory for a plurality of clients;
- a plurality of control console client computing devices that are configured to connect over the Internet to the shrinkage reducing and monitoring cloud server to report liquid beverage transactions which are stored in the liquid assets database;
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- a point of sales (POS) system that is configured to track liquid asset transactions at one or more establishments associated with the control console client computing devices.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.