The Bar-Bill Tavern is a family-owned restaurant in upstate New York. Though they are known for their wings and traditional beef on weck, the tavern provides quite the watching experience on game day. Seemingly every inch of wall space is occupied by a sizable TV, and there’s no shortage of speakers, either. Obviously, technology is integral to the atmosphere and success of this crowd-pleasing stomping ground, which is why the tavern turned to Control4 to seamlessly manage it all.
Managing the AV across 10,000 square feet inside and 2,000 square feet outside via rudimentary handheld remotes was like performing a juggling act, a trick “only the owner of the restaurant had mastered,” said Leah Shul, account manager of systems integration firm Park Place Installations. The staff could never really get the hang of it, which left the music and video unattended and underutilized. Time and again, the owner was called to assist, racing between the three Bar-Bill Tavern locations at all hours to get the AV to cooperate.
