Winerim
Restaurant groups

Smart wine management for restaurant groups

Centralize wine list management, optimize pricing, and boost sales across all your restaurants.

Winerim for groups is a wine management, analytics and optimization platform designed for operators with multiple locations, brands or concepts. Centralize wine list control, pricing, stock and performance across all units from a single panel.

Is Winerim right for your group?

It's for you if...

  • You manage 3+ locations with wine lists
  • You need pricing and assortment consistency across units
  • You want real comparative data between locations
  • You want to reduce dependence on individual judgment
  • You want to scale proven strategies to more units
  • Your management needs wine category reporting

Probably not for you if...

  • You have a single restaurant with fewer than 30 references
  • You don't need to compare or standardize across locations
  • You only want a list design, no analytics or control

The challenge

Managing wine as a strategic category in complex structures

No centralized visibility on which wines work, which stagnate, or where margin is lost between units.

Assortment depends on individual judgment at each venue: no standardization, no benchmarking, no scaled criteria.

Purchase decisions based on intuition or relationships, not on real performance or comparable data.

Lists that don't reflect the group's strategy: price inconsistency, duplications, and undetected offer gaps.

Wine is the highest-margin category, but the least managed with serious business tools.

The floor team lacks training and tools to recommend wine confidently at every point of sale.

Comparison

Manual management vs Winerim for groups

AreaManual / spreadsheetsWith Winerim
Multi-location visibilityScattered data, Excel per venueSingle panel with real-time comparative view
Pricing consistencyEach director applies their own criteriaPricing rules by type, deviation alerts
Assortment controlManual lists, no cross-list benchmarkingAssortment comparison, gaps, cannibalization
Rotation & stockNo alerts, dead stock invisible until inventoryAutomatic alerts, cross-location redistribution
Floor trainingDepends on individual talent, no toolsProfiles, pairings and recommendations for the team
Management reportingManual, partial, late reportsAutomated executive reporting with KPIs by unit
Strategy scalingScaled by intuition, no validationPilot, measure and scale based on real data
ImplementationN/AProgressive: pilot in 2-3 locations, gradual rollout

The solution

From managing lists to governing the wine category

Centralized assortment governance

One platform to manage, compare and optimize wine across all units.

Commercial consistency across units

Define pricing, positioning and assortment strategies applied consistently.

Continuous internal benchmarking

Compare performance, rotation, margin and average ticket across locations.

Data-driven assortment decisions

Identify underexploited references, cannibalization and scaling opportunities.

Professional customer experience

Digital lists with recommendations, pairings and enriched profiles everywhere.

Capabilities

What Winerim can do for a group

An intelligence layer to govern wine at scale.

Compare units

Compare performance, rotation, margins across venues.

Detect invisible opportunities

Find underexploited references, pricing gaps, cannibalization.

Decide what to replicate

Identify which wines or strategies to scale.

Adapt by venue type

Different logic for fine dining, casual, hotel or tourist.

Professionalize the category

Reduce dependence on individual judgment.

Activate rules by brand

Define priorities by business objective, brand or city.

Benchmarking

Internal benchmarking across units

Detect which venues sell wine better and where opportunities exist.

Average wine ticket per unit
Average margin by category
Best-performing references
High visibility / low conversion wines
Units with healthiest stock
Differences between comparable lists
Best-performing formats or price ranges

It's not about seeing data. It's about deciding better what to replicate, fix, or protect at group scale.

Platform

Designed to operate at scale

Multi-unit panel

Central dashboard with comparative view. Filter by brand, city, cluster or concept.

Centralized updates

Modify prices, activate or retire wines across all units with one click.

Comparative analytics

Performance rankings between units. Detect and scale best practices.

Structured pricing control

Multipliers by venue type, deviation alerts, optimization suggestions.

Multi-location cellar

Centralized or decentralized stock. Alerts and redistribution opportunities.

Floor training

Your team recommends wine confidently, without a sommelier at every location

Winerim integrates tools that let floor staff recommend wine professionally, reducing dependence on individual talent.

  • Enriched wine profiles accessible from any device
  • Automatic pairings by dish, style or diner profile
  • Smart recommendations the team can follow step by step
  • Wine descriptions in the diner's language
  • Key selling points per reference: what to say, what to highlight
  • No prior wine training required

What you can measure

KPIs Winerim puts at your fingertips

Actionable data for operations, F&B and general management.

Average wine ticket per unit

Compare average wine spend per table across locations.

Average margin by wine category

Identify which styles or price ranges generate the most margin.

Ratio of tables ordering wine

Measure what percentage of tables order wine per venue.

Rotation per reference and unit

Detect stagnant wines and high-demand references.

Immobilized stock cost

Calculate capital tied up in non-rotating wines per location.

Pricing consistency across units

Detect price deviations for the same wine between venues.

By-the-glass program performance

Analyze sales, waste and margin of glass programs.

Monthly category evolution

Sales, margin and assortment trends month over month.

What decisions it enables

Business decisions you can make with Winerim

Which wines to keep, retire or scale?

Based on rotation, margin and real performance, not intuition.

Where are margin opportunities?

Detect underexploited price ranges or high-potential categories.

Which locations need attention?

Identify units with low wine performance vs group benchmark.

Worth expanding a reference?

Pilot in 2-3 venues, measure results, decide with data.

Is pricing aligned with strategy?

Compare multipliers and margins between similar venues.

What glass strategy to implement?

Analyze styles, prices, waste and rotation for a profitable program.

Impact

Results with Winerim

Full governance

Over assortment, margin and commercial consistency across all units

Data-driven decisions

Internal benchmarking and real performance as the basis for every decision

Criteria-based scaling

Pilot, measure and expand strategies with validation before scaling

Global operation

Multi-language, multi-brand, multi-concept from a single panel

Scalability

Winerim adapts to your structure

3โ€“5 units

Group with differentiated concepts: fine dining, casual and wine bar.

How it operates

Each unit has its adapted list governed from a single panel. Pricing aligned with each concept's positioning.

Brand consistency without losing each venue's identity.

10โ€“30 units

Organized chain with venues in multiple cities.

How it operates

Base lists per cluster with local variations. Internal benchmarking to identify and replicate winning strategies.

Less management time, more control over margin and rotation.

50+ units

Large group or hotel operator with multiple brands.

How it operates

ERP and POS integration. Management by clusters, brands or regions. Automated reporting for operations and F&B.

Complete governance of the wine category at organization scale.

Assortment intelligence

Assortment decisions based on real performance

Winerim helps groups decide which references to keep, replicate, push, retire or test based on real data.

Assortment intelligence

Detects what works best by unit type, customer profile and context.

Cross-unit benchmarking

Compare venues and detect which strategies work best where.

Smart standardization

Core references, cluster selections and venue-specific wines.

Purchase & scaling opportunities

Decide what to expand, retire, pilot-test or optimize.

Test in a few units. Scale with better criteria.

Before extending a strategy across the group, validate what's working.

1

Pilot

Test in a limited set of venues.

2

Measure

Analyze margin, rotation, ticket and conversion.

3

Scale or adjust

Expand or refine before bigger decisions.

Fewer decisions based on intuition. More rollouts with real validation.

Complete platform

Core + Supply + Dynamic: the combination that makes sense at scale

A group needs to analyze performance (Core), make data-driven purchase decisions (Supply), and activate the list in real time (Dynamic Intelligence). The three layers work together so wine is managed as a governable business category.

Analytics layer

Winerim Core for groups

Compare units, detect performance differences, adjust pricing, forecast consumption, and decide which references to keep, replicate or retire.

  • Internal benchmarking across group units
  • Pricing and margin deviation detection per venue
  • Performance scoring per reference and category
  • Aggregated demand forecasting per venue cluster
  • Wine list change simulation before deployment
See Winerim Core
Purchasing intelligence

Winerim Supply for groups

Compare purchases per unit, detect overpricing, review tied-up capital, and build purchasing logic per cluster or venue type.

  • Compare purchases per unit and detect inefficiencies
  • Detect supplier overpricing against the network
  • Review which references tie up capital without return
  • Decide what to expand to more venues and what to retire
  • Build purchasing logic per cluster or venue type
See Winerim Supply

Turn wine into a governable business unit at scale.

What today depends on intuition and spreadsheets, Winerim transforms into a measurable, actionable strategy.

More multi-unit control
More commercial consistency
More margin visibility
Better assortment decisions
Less dependence on individual talent
See how it works for groups
Purchasing intelligence

Winerim Supply

Purchasing intelligence for restaurants and groups

Winerim helps you decide what's worth buying, what to renegotiate, what to remove and what to restock based on rotation, stock, margin and purchase price.

See Winerim Supply
  • Purchase price comparison
  • Overpricing alerts
  • Restocking recommendations
  • Opportunities by distributor
  • Smart purchase list

Frequently asked questions

For groups

Want to see what opportunities your group has in wine?

We can analyze multiple lists and show you where opportunities lie.

Especially useful for restaurant groups, hotel operators and multi-unit businesses.

Included for clients

You don't just see data. You understand what to do with it.

Decision Center is an exclusive product layer that helps Winerim clients interpret insights, prioritize actions and make clearer decisions about their wine list, pricing, stock and purchasing.

Contextual interpretation

Every metric comes with context: what it means, why it matters and what to do.

Smart prioritization

Alerts classified by urgency so you act first where impact is greatest.

Actionable decisions

Concrete steps for every situation: not just diagnosis, but action.

Clients onlyโ€” Available within the platform for active Winerim users.

Next steps

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