Going out
Skip the bar line
Order and pay from your phone wherever you're standing. Walk up when your drink is ready. Free for guests, 21+.
The drink-ordering operating system
The bar is packed.
The line is gone.
Guests order and pay from the DrinkLync app on their own phone. Bartenders work a live queue instead of a shouting crowd. Pickup is verified with a QR scan. You watch the whole night from one screen.
ORDER #4821 READY
Maya R., 1x Espresso Old Fashioned
QUEUE MOVING
Avg wait 4 min, Rooftop Bar
QR VERIFIED
Jordan P., 2x Gin & Tonic, Station 2
Pick your side of the bar
Running a bar
Serve the packed night
One live queue for your bartenders, QR-verified pickup, and the whole night on one screen. A flat monthly price, no share of your sales.
Brand or distributor? Advertise on DrinkLync. Work behind the bar? For bartenders and staff.
Why a bar runs it
More drinks an hour,
from the crew you already have.
Three things move at once when the line stops being the only way to buy a drink: you pour more in the same peak hours, the rounds get bigger, and the guests who would have given up order anyway. We model that as a range across three scenarios, never as one number, and never as a reading from your room. Shown for a one-bar neighborhood bar on our defaults; the venues page runs it on yours.
Throughput up 12%, order size up 5%, a quarter of tonight's walk-aways recovered.
Throughput up 18%, order size up 10%, half of tonight's walk-aways recovered.
Throughput up 22%, order size up 12%, three quarters of tonight's walk-aways recovered.
$699 a month, flat
Core, with one station included, plus a $500 one-time setup. DrinkLync takes no share of your sales and no cut of a drink or a tip. Card processing is separate: your guests pay into your own Stripe account and Stripe bills you its standard card fees directly.
A return has to be earned
We only print a return multiple when the low scenario on its own already clears what you pay us, on what your venue keeps after pour cost and card processing. If it does not, you get the break-even figure instead. The same rule as the quote we email you.
Nothing here is your bar
These are projections from a published model, not measurements of your room, and every assumption behind them is printed in full on the venues page. A pilot on one of your own Fridays replaces all of it with a reading.
Where the night leaks money
Busy isn't the problem. Losing control of busy is.
On a packed night, demand isn't what fails, flow is. Four failure points show up in every high-volume venue.
Failure 01 / The line
Guests wait, then walk
Every minute in line is a drink not sold. The thirstiest customers give up first, and they take the round they were buying with them.
Failure 02 / The rail
Bartenders drown in noise
Shouted orders, no sequence, remakes and comps. Your fastest staff spend half their motion asking "who's next?"
Failure 03 / The handoff
Pickup turns into chaos
Drinks sit dying on the rail while the wrong hands reach for them. No verification means walked drinks and comped remakes.
Failure 04 / The office
Managers fly blind
You find out how the night went tomorrow. Which bar backed up, which SKU died, which hour bled, invisible until it's history.
One order, start to finish
STEP 01
Guests find your venue
They open the DrinkLync app, or scan your code at the door, and pick the bar they are standing at: rooftop, main floor, upper level. One tap and your live menu is in their hand.
STEP 02
They order from your live menu
Your real menu, your prices, your 86s, updated the moment you change them. Guests build a round in seconds instead of shouting it across the bar.
STEP 03
They pay in the app
Paid by card when they order, receipt handled. No card behind the bar, no open tabs to chase at 2 a.m. An optional tip is offered after pickup, once the drink is in hand.
STEP 04
A QR scan releases the drink
When the order is ready, the guest gets pinged and shows a code. Your gatekeeper scans it, right drink, right hands, every time. Walked drinks stop existing.
STEP 05
Done, and they order again
The whole loop takes minutes, not a night in line. Guests who don't wait order more rounds. That's the entire business case.
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Guests order from wherever they stand
The DrinkLync app, your live menu and payment handled in the app. Specifics typed in, not shouted. Ratings and optional tips follow the pickup experience.
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Bartenders pour in sequence
Every order lands in the station queue in the order it arrived. Accept, make, mark ready. The guest's phone buzzes.
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A scan releases the drink
The guest walks up when it is ready and shows a code. The gatekeeper scans it: right drink, right hands.
What a night looks like
A Friday with DrinkLync on the rail, from doors to close. Illustration, not a measurement.
Doors
Menu live, 86s current, stations awake. Staff signed in on the venue iPads.
First rush
Orders arrive in sequence. Bartenders pour instead of asking who is next.
Peak
The rail is full and the queue is still in order. Guests wait at their table, not at the bar.
A drink is 86'd
One tap on the station. Menu updates on every phone in the room the same second.
Last call
Orders are paid in-app. Review completed pickups, optional tips and any exceptions before closing the night.
The morning after
The night's recap is waiting in your manager dashboard: by hour, by station, by drink.
Guests: iPhone, App Store
Guests: Android, Google Play
Stations: iPad, venue-bound
Managers: any browser
Payments: your own Stripe
See it end to end
The whole flow, in one take.
Ninety seconds from a guest's first tap to the gatekeeper's handoff, the actual product, the actual screens.
Built for everyone behind the night
Four people run your Friday. All four win.
The same order moves through four sets of hands. DrinkLync gives each of them their own screen, and their own reason to love it.
Bartender · Tony
Main Floor · Bar A · 4 in queue
Incoming orders
Maya R.Order #4821 · just now
AWAITING CONFIRM
1× Espresso Old Fashionedextra shot · orange twist1× Bee's Knees
Jordan P.Order #4820 · 1 min ago
IN PROGRESS
2× Gin & Tonic
Sam K.Order #4819 · 2 min ago
IN PROGRESS
1× Lavender Lemonade
Accept next order
DrinkLync.
Behind the bar
A clear queue. Exact drink specs. A chance to earn tips.
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Tickets in sequence, batched by roundNo shouted orders, no "who's next", the queue routes to your station and stays in order.
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An invitation to tip after pickupGuests can thank their bartender after collecting their drinks. Tips are optional; the prompt connects the choice to the service they received.
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Exact specs on every ticketBulleit, orange peel, large cube, it's on the ticket. Remakes and comps stop eating your speed.
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Three taps per drinkAccept, making, ready. The guest gets pinged the second you rack it, nothing dies on the rail.
At the pickup station
One scan settles every question.
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Order, guest, and station verified at onceThe QR scan matches the drink to the person who paid for it. Wrong hands never touch the rail.
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Zero confrontation"The app says it's not yours" ends the argument before it starts. The screen is the bad guy, not your staff.
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Every handoff loggedTime, order, station, a clean record of the night. Disputes and comps get answered with data, not memory.
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The rail stays cleanVerified pickup keeps ready drinks moving. No graveyard of melting cocktails at the end of the bar.
MAIN FLOORSample data
212orders this hour
3:40avg pickup time
6/6stations active
$2,310tips tonight
Throughput by hour
In the office, or on the floor
See the whole night while you can still change it.
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Live throughput per bar and stationWhich bar is backing up, which station is idle, where the wait is building, while it's happening, not tomorrow.
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Menu intelligence that pays rentTop SKUs, dead SKUs, price elasticity by night. Kill the drink nobody orders; push the one that prints.
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Staffing pressure, quantifiedOrders per bartender per hour tells you exactly when to open a station, and when you're overstaffed on a Tuesday.
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The morning-after recapRevenue, waits, ratings, and per-station numbers, waiting in your manager dashboard before the floors are mopped.
On the floor, phone in hand
The night without the line.
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Order from anywhere in the venueThe dance floor, the booth, the balcony. Get pinged when it's ready and walk straight to pickup.
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Send a drink across the barPick a friend, pick their drink, they get pinged with a pickup code. The oldest move in the book, minus the awkward relay.
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Favorites, reorder, and ratingsRound two is two taps. Rate the drink and the venue, your feedback actually reaches the manager.
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Discover where the night is goodDrinkLync venues show up in one app with their menus, so guests can see what's nearby and where to go next.
One connected night
Better for the guest.
Clearer for the whole team.
The guest gets an order they can follow. The bartender gets a readable queue. The gatekeeper gets a verified handoff. The manager gets the evidence to improve the next shift.
Core runs the floor.
Venue setup, menu choices, ordering, fulfillment and pickup belong to the same journey. Each role has a focused screen and a clear next step.
Walk the complete journeyInsights explains the night.
Look at the relevant bar, period and sample. Separate preparation from pickup, investigate drink feedback, and open the workspace where you can act.
See the decisions it supportsLync helps you ask better questions.
Explore available venue, menu, order and shift context in conversation. Review the evidence and keep operational decisions in the right hands.
See what each role can askThe manager's night, quantified
Read the night while it's still happening.
Every order is a data point: what sold, where, when, how long it took, and what the guest thought of it. The dashboard runs live all night; the full report is waiting before the floors are mopped.
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Throughput, waits, and tips per stationDown to the hour. Spot the bottleneck at 11:40, not at the staff meeting.
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SKU velocity and menu economicsWhat prints money, what wastes rail space, and what a dollar of price does to volume.
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Guest ratings, tied to the orderA bad pour gets found by drink, station, and hour, fixable while the guest is still in the building.
A SAMPLE FRIDAY · ALL BARSSample data
11:42 PM
1,284orders tonight
3.7mavg pickup time
$2,310tips tonight
97%verified pickups
Throughput by hour
TAP A BAR, ORDERS AND WAIT, HOUR BY HOUR
7P8P9P10P11P12A1A2A
Top sellers
Old Fashioned214
Classic Martini186
Nashville Mule171
Signature Margarita149
Gin & Tonic122
Lync, the AI on your side of the bar
The system doesn't just record the night. It reads it.
FLOW ALERTS
Catches the backup before the crowd does
Ask Lync about available queue and wait-time data to investigate pressure at a station and decide where to look next.
Sample"Rooftop wait just crossed 9 min, Station 3 is idle. Suggest opening it for the next hour."
DEMAND SIGNALS
Knows what Friday looks like before Friday
Order history becomes prep guidance: what to stock, what to batch, and which SKUs spike on game nights.
Sample"Espresso Old Fashioned volume runs +38% on Fridays. Pre-batch 2 rails before 10 PM."
MENU INTELLIGENCE
Prices and menus that earn their keep
Velocity, margin, and rating per SKU, so the menu decision is a number, not a hunch.
Sample"Review Saturday Old Fashioned demand before testing a price change. Compare volume and guest feedback afterward."
Ask it anything about your venue
Your data, in plain English. Just ask.
Lync uses available venue context to help you explore orders, waits and feedback. Ask a question in plain language, inspect the evidence, and decide what to do next. Missing data is a reason to investigate, not a reason to guess.
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Answers, not exports"Why was Saturday slow?" beats a CSV. Lync reads the night for you and shows its work.
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More history to investigateRecorded activity gives you more context for comparing nights, understanding demand and reviewing staffing decisions.
LYNC · VENUE INTELLIGENCESample conversation
Why did the rooftop back up around 11 last Friday?
LYNCOrders spiked +62% at 10:50 PM but Station 4 went offline for 22 minutes. Queue depth hit 31. Same pattern the previous two Fridays, review Station 4 coverage from 10:30, then compare waits on a similar night. This pattern alone does not prove the cause.
What should I 86 before tonight?
LYNCThe Smoked Paloma: 4 sold last Friday, slowest make time on the menu (3:40), and a 3.1★ rating. Swapping the slot for a batched Ranch Water frees roughly 26 minutes of bartender time at peak.
The other side of the bar, step by step
BARTENDER, 01
Orders land in sequence
No shouting, no guessing who's next. Every order routes to the right station and stacks in a clean, batched queue.
BARTENDER, 02
One tap to claim the ticket
Accept it and the guest instantly knows their drink is in motion, nobody hovers at the rail asking "is mine up?"
BARTENDER, 03
The spec is on the ticket
Bulleit, orange peel, large cube. Exact modifications, every time, remakes and comps stop eating the night.
BARTENDER, 04
Rack it, the guest gets pinged
Mark it ready and the guest's phone buzzes with a pickup code. Nothing melts on the rail waiting for its owner.
GATEKEEPER, 01
Scan the guest's code
The guest walks up and shows their QR. One scan pulls up exactly what they ordered and paid for.
GATEKEEPER, 02
Right guest, right drink, verified
Green means go. Wrong hands never touch the rail, and "that one's mine" stops being a negotiation.
GATEKEEPER, 03
Handoff done, logged, timestamped
Every pickup is recorded, order, station, time. Disputes get answered with data instead of memory.
MANAGER
And you watched the whole thing
Every one of those tickets just became a data point on your dashboard, throughput, waits, tips, ratings, live all night.
ALL BARSSample
212orders this hour
3:40avg pickup time
$2,310tips tonight
Throughput
Set up once, run every night
Your menu, your prices, your people, yours to change in seconds.
We build your venue before the pilot; after that it's yours. Edit a price and it's live on every guest's phone instantly. 86 a drink and it vanishes from the menu mid-pour. Add a bartender and their station screen just works.
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Menu and prices, live-editableChange anything from your phone or the office. Guests always see the real menu, never a stale PDF.
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Staff in two tapsAdd bartenders and gatekeepers by email invite. They get their screen, you control who works which station.
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Lync suggests, you decideEvery input becomes a recommendation: pricing headroom, prep lists, when to open the next station.
AR
Alex ReyesStation 1 · Fri, Sat
BARTENDERDK
Dana KimStation 2 · Fri, Sat, Sun
BARTENDERMO
+ Invite a bartender
+ Invite a gatekeeper
Marcus OkaforPickup · Fri, Sat
GATEKEEPERLYNC SUGGESTSFridays run 34 orders/bartender/hour after 10 PM, one more set of hands would hold your wait under 4 minutes.
Station 1, Main barCocktails + beer · Alex
OPENStation 2, Main barCocktails · Dana
OPENStation 3, RooftopFull menu · unassigned
CLOSEDLYNC SUGGESTSRooftop queue depth crossed 9 minutes the last three Fridays at 10:40 PM, schedule Station 3 to open at 10:30.
Everything in the guest's pocket
Guests don't just order faster. They come back.
Every screen below is the real app on the guest’s own phone, free on the App Store and Google Play. Every feature turns a one-drink visitor into a regular.
Discovery
Find the night nearby
DrinkLync venues on one map with distance, vibe, and the menu before they walk over. New venues get discovered the night they switch on.
Favorites
Round two in two taps
Favorite drinks and venues pin to the top. Reorder without re-browsing, the fastest path from "same again" to a ticket at the bar.
Live tracking
Watch the drink happen
Queued, making, ready, guests see exactly where their order is, so they stay on the floor spending instead of hovering at the rail.
Ratings
Feedback that reaches you
Guests rate drinks and the experience in-app. You see it that night, not in a one-star surprise on Google three weeks later.
Referrals
The crew brings the crew
Built-in referrals put your venue in new pockets. Guests invite friends; friends show up already knowing how to order.
History
Every round, receipted
Clean order history and receipts in-app. No 2 a.m. tab mysteries, no chargeback roulette, no "did I close out?"
The real interface, end to end
One night in DrinkLync, screen by screen.
01OPEN
02PICK THE VENUE
03PICK THE BAR04BROWSE THE MENU
05BUILD THE ROUND06PAYMENT07GET THE CODE08TRACK IT LIVE09PICK IT UP10BRING A FRIENDYour menu, the way guests see it
Drinks that sell themselves from the lock screen.
Real photography, live prices, ratings from your own room. This is the menu guests flip through while they're deciding, swipe it.
$14
$15
$12
$13
DRAG / SWIPE, LIVE PRICES AND RATINGS, STRAIGHT FROM YOUR MENU
Both sides of one order, in sync
01, THE ORDER
The guest orders from the floor
They build the round from your live menu and pay without leaving their spot. After pickup, they can rate the order and leave an optional tip.
STAFF SIDE: the ticket lands in the station queue, in sequence, the same second.
02, THE ACCEPT
The bartender claims it, the guest sees it
One tap to accept. No shouting, no "is mine up?", the guest's phone flips to "in progress" instantly.
GUEST SIDE: live status update, accepted, and who's making it.
03, THE MAKE
The exact spec is on the ticket
Bulleit, orange peel, large cube, every modification, right there. The guest keeps watching the progress bar move.
GUEST SIDE: "In progress", they stay on the floor, spending, not hovering.
04, THE READY CALL
Marked ready, the QR code fires
The bartender racks it on the ready wall and taps ready. The guest's phone buzzes with their pickup code.
GUEST SIDE: pickup QR + exactly which bar to walk to.
05, THE HANDOFF
One scan at the ready wall closes the loop
The gatekeeper scans the code, the right drink leaves the ready wall in the right hands, and the whole round is logged, time, station, rating to come.
BOTH SIDES: order complete. Guest's next round is two taps away.
One system, four parts
Everything the night needs, nothing bolted on.
01 / GUEST
The guest flow
STEP 1 OF 6
What's in it for the crew
Every role wins the night back.
BARTENDERBehind the rail
"I stopped playing air-traffic controller. The queue tells me what's next, the ticket has the exact spec, and guests can leave a tip after pickup without fighting their way back to the front."
- Sequenced queue, no memorizing shouted rounds
- Every mod on the ticket, no re-asks
- Optional post-pickup tips linked to the order
GATEKEEPERAt the ready wall
"One scan, right drink, right guest, done. Nobody argues about whose margarita that was, and nothing walks off the wall. My whole job got calmer."
- QR-verified handoff, zero mixed-up drinks
- Ready wall stays short; stale orders flag themselves
- Every handoff logged with a timestamp
BAR MANAGERRunning the room
"I can see the 11:40 bottleneck at 11:40, which station is drowning, what's selling, where the waits are building, and fix it while the night is still happening."
- Live throughput, waits, and tips per station
- Throttle intake when either queue backs up
- The morning-after recap is ready in the dashboard
Illustrative crew, real product behavior, this is what each role sees on a DrinkLync night.
The operator math
Does it pay for itself? Check with your own numbers.
Our whole price is on the table. The ROI calculator puts your nights, drinks, drink price and bartenders against it, counts only the drinks you win back from guests who give up on the line, and shows payback in busy nights.
$699a month, flat. Core, one station included
$99a month for each extra station
$500once, for setup
0%of your sales to DrinkLync. Card processing is separate, paid to Stripe
Worked example, not a reading from any bar
A one-bar neighborhood bar, on our defaults for that venue type: 3 busy nights a week, 4 peak hours, 1 bartender, $9 a drink
DrinkLync pays for itself at9 more drinks a busy night
Kept after pour cost and card processing, each year$28,644
Bartender time back to pouring, each year125 hours
The same model as the quote we email a bar after intake. What your venue keeps at a 78% bar margin after card processing (Stripe’s standard fees, paid by your venue directly to Stripe on its own account; DrinkLync takes 0%), against the $699 Core bill. Every input is a default you can change. Projection, not a guarantee.
On the roadmap
The platform keeps compounding.
COMING SOON
Promoting your own venue
Explore the brand campaign workflow, placement rules and rollout status in the advertiser portal overview. What is still coming is the same machinery pointed at your own bar: promote your Thursday night, your new menu, your happy hour, to people already out and ordering nearby.
- Your venue in front of nearby guests at the moment they are choosing
- A drink, a night or an event, priced flat, like everything we do
- Same placement rules brands get: labelled, ancillary, never in the ordering path
COMING SOON
Lync Studio, creative tools for your menu
Explore the planned workflow for menu descriptions, drink photography briefs and promotion drafts, with manager review before publishing.
- Menu descriptions tuned to your top sellers' language
- Specials suggested from your own demand curves
- A guided path from insight to a reviewed promotion
Wherever the line forms
From the rooftop to the concourse.
Bars · rooftops · clubs
Core, live in days
One station included, your whole menu, staff trained in one shift briefing. The pilot night is a normal Friday.
Stadiums · arenas · festivals
Enterprise scale, same system
Custom station topology across concourses and levels, event-day pricing, and a rollout team that's done it before.
Before you ask
The questions every operator asks.
How fast can we be live?
Days, not months. We build your venue, floors, bars, stations, full menu, before the pilot night, and your staff learns it in one shift briefing. Bartenders are working the queue by their second ticket.
Do we need new hardware or a new POS?
No new POS. Each station is one iPad: pair iPads you already own by scanning a QR from your setup screen, or tell us how many you need and we ship them pre-configured and locked to DrinkLync. Managers use any browser. DrinkLync runs alongside your existing register for walk-up orders, it takes the line, not your setup.
What does it actually cost, and what's the catch on fees?
Core is $699/month plus a $500 one-time setup, with one station included, on a yearly agreement. DrinkLync takes no share of your sales; we never take a cut of a drink. The only add-ons are extra stations, at $99/month each, and Insights ($199/month, free for your first 30 days). Card processing is separate: your guests' card payments land in your own Stripe account and Stripe charges its standard card fees directly to you. Full details on the pricing page.
Do guests have to download anything?
No download is needed. Your table QR or venue link opens DrinkLync in the phone browser they already have, and your venue page and menu preview load without an account. To order, a guest creates a free DrinkLync account (Apple, Google or email, 21+) once, and that account works at every DrinkLync venue. The app is optional: it keeps them signed in and puts your bar one tap away for the next round.
How does payment work? Who holds the money?
Guests pay by card at the moment they order. Tipping is optional and comes after pickup, as a separate charge to the same card. Money settles into your own Stripe account; we never hold it. Stripe charges you its standard card fees on those payments, the same as any card you take today. DrinkLync adds nothing on top of that and takes no share of the sale.
What happens if the internet drops mid-Friday?
Staff screens tolerate brief drops and re-sync when the connection returns, and your bar can always fall back to walk-up service, DrinkLync adds a lane, it doesn't remove one. We review your venue's connectivity during setup.
Whose data is it?
Yours. Your menu, your orders, your analytics. We use it to run your venue's dashboards and Lync insights, we don't sell it, and you can export it.
What's in it for my bartenders?
More orders with less chaos, and a tip prompt that arrives after the drink does: once a guest picks up, they can tip with 15, 18, 20 or 25 percent or a custom amount, and the tip is tied to that order. Tickets arrive in sequence with exact specs (fewer remakes and comps), and the "who's next" argument disappears. Bartenders pour more and argue less, most staff resistance ends the first shift.
What's in it for the gatekeeper / pickup staff?
One scan settles every dispute. The QR match means the right guest gets the right drink every time, no confrontation, no walked drinks, and a timestamped log of every handoff so comps get answered with data instead of memory.
What do I get as the manager, beyond the money?
Visibility while you can still act on it: live throughput, waits, and tips per station all night, a nightly recap in your dashboard, private guest ratings tied to the exact drink and hour, and, with Insights, per-bartender, per-drink, and per-bar breakdowns plus Lync's recommendations on pricing, prep, and staffing.
Will my guests actually like this?
Guests get the night without the line: order from anywhere, watch the drink happen, get pinged, walk up, scan, done. Plus favorites, one-tap reorders, sending drinks to friends, and discovery of your venue by every DrinkLync user nearby. Guests who don't wait order more rounds, that's your upside too.
What does a pilot commit us to?
One normal night on the system. We set everything up, you run a Friday, and you read the morning-after numbers. If the night didn't run smoother, we'd rather hear why than lock you in.
Ready when you are
Run one pilot night.
Watch the line disappear.
Set your venue up in the guided setup, or ask for a pilot and we walk it with you. Your first busy night replaces every estimate on this site with your own numbers.