Installing a Draft Wine System for Your Restaurant
For finer establishments, upgrading to a top-of-the-line draft wine system requires carefully balancing numerous, sometimes highly nuanced, details — and in the restaurant and bar industry, it’s often the smaller details that have the most dramatic impact on revenue.
To ensure your investment yields maximum returns, every detail must be designed from the outset with care and precision. Northwest Draft Technicians is a trusted supplier serving restaurants and bars throughout the Portland, OR, area. We offer various draft beverage services and our draft technicians handle installations and maintenance, so businesses focus on generating revenue by serving clients.
Our experienced draft line technicians can ensure your wine draft system operates with minimal system maintenance, maximum efficiency, and reduced costs for years to come. We’ll help you select the right draft wine equipment, fully customized for your space and needs.
The Importance of Custom Line Design
The best wine draft systems are custom by nature, requiring carefully designed draft systems that conform perfectly to a restaurant’s unique layout and workflow. A professional draft line installation is an investment in greater efficiency and ease, which is often the difference between a glowing five-star review or less-than-satisfied patrons.
Quality is of primary importance. Many establishments learn too late that a novice-grade wine draft system significantly hampers their workflow.
Profit margins are often low in the restaurant industry, meaning smooth and efficient operations are crucial to:
- Encourage naturally high table turnover
- Provide employees with a feeling of effortless mastery over their environment
- Cut down on mistakes, while reducing workflow traffic jams
Installing Your New Wine Draft System
A draft system technician knowledgeable in a multitude of draft line types will see from experience the most effective place for your draft lines and wine draft equipment. This involves a multifaceted view of the factors that facilitate future service needs, ease of use, and product quality.
High-Efficiency Alignment
The most cost-saving installations require carefully balanced factors, such as keeping draft lines out of the way while maintaining easy access. Draft lines also must be kept away from warm areas (such as behind kitchen equipment) wherever possible to ensure maximum line sanitation and proper drink temperatures.
It is also vital to avoid extending line length so far that line pressure drops. This is crucial to reducing sediment accumulation, which needlessly increases cleaning costs (not to mention downtime).
Managing Draft Line Maintenance Needs
Lines must be arranged logically to facilitate and reduce future maintenance needs. This is even more crucial for restaurants and bars running several different draft line types throughout the premises. Of course, different types of dispensing equipment will have a unique influence on line placement range and limitations.
Selecting Draft Wine Dispensing Equipment
There are several efficient wine draft systems to choose from, all with their own unique advantages. Thus, it’s essential to select a draft system vendor who will take the time to consult with you at length, to learn and evaluate your specific needs.
- Long Draw: CO2 gas creates pressure sufficient for draft lines of 25 feet or more. Long-draw lines can be cooled with forced air systems or glycol coolant lines running adjacent to the drafting line. Cooling is usually more common in a draft beer system, but it's also perfect for chilled white wines and, at lower levels, provides moderate temperature control that prevents wine sitting in the line from becoming too warm.
- Direct Draw: Direct draw systems are appropriate for dispensing stations next to an under-counter wine keg or kegerator. Because they're more affordable, easier to use, and involve lower maintenance, they're perfectly suited for back-of-house dispensing solutions (such as walk-in cooler organization setups).
- Keg Cabinets and Custom Kegerators: For maximum space economy, custom storage and dispensing solutions are also possible. This is perfect for restaurants seeking to cut down on inventory space while seamlessly integrating the equipment for maximum efficiency and service.
Draft wine systems can be operated from the bar or integrated into self-pour systems, such as custom beverage towers and beverage walls. For the most polished look, our drafting wine systems can also be branded with your custom logo — ensuring patrons remember where they just had the most unique and memorable wine service.
Draft Wine Systems for Fine Dining Establishments in Portland, OR
Northwest Draft Technicians specializes in draft wine systems and other drafting line services that boost operational efficiency and service quality (and with it, overall revenue) for our customers in the Portland, OR, area. If you’re interested in a custom wine draft system or would like to request a quote, don’t hesitate to contact us with any questions.
