Inaugural Post: The Best Way to Label Beers on Flights?

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We've gone to enough brewpubs to see all sorts of different methods by which the requested beers on a flight are written down. And one method stands out above the rest:

... let your customers write them, themselves, with a bistro marker on fake chalkboard panels right on the flight holder.

Here's what it looks like at the first place I saw it, Wyndridge Farms, in Dallastown, PA (central Pennsylvania). Their flight holder is a box which give the customer plenty of room to write, but it could work as a 3/4-inch wide strip on the typical flat glass holder.

This particular picture shows what looks like regular chalk, but I'm pretty sure I used a bistro marker (liquid) at Wyndridge when I was there. You can purchase "peel and stick chalkboard paper" (Google search) and bistro markers or "liquid chalk markers" (Amazon search) to set it up. If I'm right, this should reduce the time spent by your staff serving flights.

And while we're on the topic of flights, I notice that a lot of places seem to hide the fact that flights are available. Of course, if flights are a nuisance that isn't making you money, then that's another matter. But for this particular customer, getting a flight is one of the greatest things about brewpubs. So don't put it in small letters at the bottom of the menu like an afterthought... brag about it at the top.

And I'm still waiting for the first place to have a policy that, when someone asks for a Bud Light, they get a free flight. It's probably illegal though in my home state of PA.