Hosting Without Bartending: 5 Reasons to Automate Your Cocktail Hour
- Jun 10, 2025
It frees you up to actually hang
Whether you’re navigating a minefield of dietary restrictions or struggling to create the perfect playlist, hosting can be surprisingly laborintensive—and this stress doesn’t magically end once the event actually arrives. If you’re on the hook for bartending all night, you don’t actually get to relax and enjoy the party you worked so hard to make perfect. Automated drinks give you the freedom to perform the softskills hosting duties that every gathering needs, like serving as a human barrier between guests who hate each other, or introducing two single friends in the hopes that they’ll have sex.
It's way less messy
Gatherings of people plus alcohol equals mess. This used to be an inevitable, unavoidable fact. Consider the condition of your average bar at the end of a long night: sticky surfaces, spent citrus wedges, misplaced bottles and general chaos. The better the party, the more wrecked the drinks station tends to be. After everyone heads out (and/or crashes on your couch at 2 A.M.), do you really want to be dealing with that in the morning? I think not. With a robot bartender, your guests don’t have to go all Mad Scientist—clean, simple and spillfree cocktail service is right at their fingertips. All they need to do is push a button.
It's pretty cool, frankly
These days, there’s nothing like advancements in tech to get people talking, and automated cocktails are a total conversation starter. Back in 2023, I went to a doctor who couldn’t stop talking about something called ChatGPT. I had no idea what he was talking about and found his fixation incredibly strange. When I look back now, I’m mostly impressed how ahead of the curve he was. Point being, the future of hospitality is here, and your guests will always remember their first encounter with it at your party.
It ensures consistent quality
Look, if you consider bartending dumping a bunch of lukewarm stuff into a Solo cup, then sure, anyone can bartend. But good bartending—the kind that elevates a cocktail hour from good to great—is a craft that requires skill, practice, patience and time. Delivering elevated, consistent cocktails all night isn’t something you can halfass as a busy host. (That’s literally why people hire professional bartenders to work their parties.) Outsourcing to AI guarantees that every single drink served to your guests is professionalquality.
It makes personalization easy (and foolproof)
Every drinker’s palate is deeply personal, and there is no onesizefitsall cocktail. When your guests use the Barsys 360 to mix their own drinks, they can control the sweetness, tartness, booziness (e.g. halfstrength or zeroproof) and overall flavor notes (e.g. less bitters, more fruit) of their specific beverage. While it’s common for this kind of recipe tweaking to result in an unbalanced drink, the automated machine recalibrates the ratios in real time, ensuring that the flavor profile stays on point.