Technology in Restaraunts

I was thinking about this the other day when I was working. I have been working at the Cleveland Country Club for almost 2 years now, and along with being one of the most experienced server/bartender in any given restaraunt, comes more responsibility. Well, as part of my responsibility I have to do inventory on all of the alchohol in the building about once a month. I don’t know if you have ever been to the Country Club, but it’s pretty large, and there is a lot of alchohol to inventory. Basically what it comes down to is I have a spreadsheet of all of the different kinds of alchohol for all of the different places it is located in the building, and I go through and mark how much of each kind we have. This can often be tedious, and very time consuming because there are a lot of places that are unorganized, so you find several different kinds of alchohol in several different places, so you have to go back and erase your numbers and change them over and over.

I thought that if there was some sort of handheld electronic device, even if it was a simple as a palm pilot, that had some sort of software on it that I could just call up a certain type of alchohol, and make a mark every time I found it, that it would be much more easy to deal with, and a lot less messy. I’m sure there is something comprable to this out there, I have just not experienced it. Does anyone know if this sort of thing is widely used, and if so how i could get a hold of it for my work?