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Single vs Double Rack Speed Rails: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

Knee Hyperextension Can Result From Multi-Tier Liquor Speed Racks Pressing Against The Front of Bartenders’ Knees as the Bartender Leans Forward to Reach the Top of the Bar in Order to Clean or Serve Drinks. This Constant Hyperextension Causes Chronic, Permanent Injury to Both Knees.

 

The 42″ Single Tier Speed Rail

 

 

The famous 10 bottle speed rail perfect for keeping your most used bottles accessible to your bartenders, a.k.a. “the well” the 10 bottle Speed Rail is meant to hold the bar’s lowest end, Brand X, most frequently used booze that nobody needs to see the labels of and that nobody’s ever going to call for by name. It holds the famous “Happy Hour” mixture of well brands every bar across America uses to draw customers in with to turn those customers into regulars.

 

The 42″ Double Tier Speed Rail

 

 

The ad marketers have made these double tier racks seem like the greatest invention ever. If one tier is good, adding a second can only be perfect. Right? Well, No Actually – Not So Fast!

 

Knee Hyperextension – Human Anatomy: How Knees Work

 

According to medical experts (sports medicine included) dealing with physical injuries involving the knee “Hyperextension of the knee, or if you want the scientific name Genu Recurvatum is when your knee is pushed past its normal range of motion from a straightened position. Knee hyperextension can cause serious damage and injury to the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) or posterior cruciate ligament (PCL) and cartilage.” (click here to learn more)

 

 

That’s the number one best human element reason for not choosing double, triple, quadruple etc (I’m seeing them in a lot of bars!) speed rails I can think of. Why destroy your talent’s legs? The easier, more comfortable, and pain free your bartenders can work, the faster they’ll move and more they’ll be able to sell.

 

From a personal perspective where I have worked with these double and triple rails they constantly cause me to hyperextend my own knees, causing pain that cannot be ignored.

 

In some bars these double rails have been hung everywhere possible so no matter where the customers are being served there’s hyperextension occurring.

 

When this happens I have to avoid the pain and injury by working slower and more carefully. Intellectually I recognize this design flaw as an insurmountable, unconquerable hurdle. It is a demotivater and takes the joy out of working.

 

Well bottle labels are viewed by bartenders from the top, not the sides. Labels are all hidden for the most part. The bartender can’t read what’s what, so it slows down service. What’s worse, the customers can’t see what liquors and liqueurs are hidden hang off the rail, labels all covered up facing away from them.

 

Use single tier speed rails, and put your bottles on shelves up on the back bar where customers can see them where they belong. You’ll make more money and your bartenders will work faster, happier, and harder.

 

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