The Definitive Stemless Wine Glass
Groan… another smashed wine glass, more cleanup work, another incomplete set, more wasted dollars, AARRGGHH!
This frustrated feeling is shared by all of us who love our wine, but hate seeing it all over the lounge floor – we would definitely rather save our hard-earned money for the next bottle or case, right? The irony of this feeling is that we generally keep making the same errors over and over again, but why do we? Well as human-beings, we’ve made our eternal commitment to the silly habit of not learning from our mistakes! Every leader of the world recommends that we learn from them in order to avoid repeating them – brilliant advice, but most of are so blind that we don’t implement this into EVERY area of our lives. STOP, COMPREHEND, REALISE and TAKE ACTION! The same goes for wine.
Enter the Stemless Wine Glass. This much talked about trend in the wine marketplace seemed initially to spark opinions of discontent and criticism. The traditionalists offered the most ridicule to this ‘sacrilegious’ development and I have spotted them all over the wine forums being negative about stemless wine glasses. Well, Confucius said “Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change”, and with every shattered wine glass and its wasted contents, those wise words keep ringing true.
Stemless wine glasses and stemless champagne flutes are being used not just by families and individuals, but also by a fast increasing number of finance-smart restaurants and other establishments all over the world. Their proprietors have ultimately come to the stark realization about how much money they are literally throwing in the rubbish each week; every broken glass must be replaced and in a customer-sensitive market, most companies will replace your drink for free, which means giving wine away for nothing!
I was recently chatting to one such owner, and the stemless wine glasses on his tables came up in the conversation. He filled me in as to why he decided to do away with stemmed glasses altogether a few months before and from this very smart and practical approach, there will surely be thousands following his lead very soon.
A startling fact was that before his investment in stemless wine glasses, he was getting rid of almost 1,000 wine glasses every month (recycling of course) in his bustling 50-seater restaurant. I was gobsmacked of course, but he also noted that this had been a pretty consistent average for 4 years! After doing some basic math, I calculated that this amounted to about 48,000 glasses in 4 years which likely cost him over $100,000!! UN…REAL! So my next question was naturally how much he reckoned he had reduced this wastage by, since converting to stemless glasses, and his answer was pretty definitive. JUST OVER 60%! You don’t need a calculator to figure this one out – an extraordinary saving, and this would be a massive boost for any business.
The most ironic statistic was that it wasn’t just the clientele who were effecting this huge loss, but also the kitchen and service staff. With a multitude of hands accessing each glass from serving to cleaning, changing to the versatile stemless wine glass allowed this particular owner to add thousands of dollars to his bottom line each year by simply cutting down on silly accidents. Finally, a glass that could fit into the dishwasher – no more hand washing! The stemless wine glass also added a bit of chicness to his restaurant, which has resulted in a bigger cross-section of patrons visiting his place ie. more sales!
The stemless wine glass is ultimately much more stable than its stemmed cousin, which means fewer accidents than with the traditional wine glass. Clumsy stems have simply become too awkward, and while their main benefit is avoiding the transfer of heat into your wine, the reality is that most of us don’t take long enough over a glass of wine for this to be an issue. Stemless glasses are more storage efficient, occupying far less space and are also much better suited for the dishwasher. The lower centre of gravity means that your waiter will have no problem with the ‘one-handed tray technique’, and will save your customers’ embarrassment by helping them avoid knocking their glasses over more often.
Stemless Wine Glasses and Stemless Champagne Flutes are a wonderful little cash saver for businesses and homes alike, and this trend certainly gets our vote for wine product of the millennium.
Check out The Stemless Wine Glass site to discover the widest variety of stemless wine and champagne glasses on the market. Save money, love life, drink wine!
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