Upselling Tip – Be Attentive
The only way that a pub, restaurant or hotel will become more successful is by, Increasing the average spend per customer. Increasing Customer visits. Increasing customer base. Controlling Costs By training your staff to be attentive to your customers you can easily increase the average customer spend. Here are just a couple of easy ways […]
Sunday’s Upselling Tip – What do You Call It?
The Word “Upselling” is the one that has been traditionally used in the hospitality industry, but does this fit in with your business culture? If and your staff might think that it is a bit mechanical and fill them with fear and anxiety then choose something different. “Cross-selling”, “Improving Customer Value” or “knowing Your Customer”, […]
Upselling – Tip #1
Upselling is the life blood of your businesses. It maximises the average spend per customer, increases your turnover, and perhaps, more importantly it improves your customer’s experience. Tip #1: Don’t Panic about Upselling Selling to your customers is what keeps you in business: its how you sell to them that is important. People don’t like […]
How to make your pub more successful – The Lost Art of Up Selling
It is generally thought that there are three ways to make your pub successful Get your customers to spend more on each visit. Attract more Customers through your doors. Get your customers to make more visits to you pub I also think there is a fourth Control your costs. For today I will concentrate on […]
Hospitality News Roundup – W/c 25/8
Monday 25/7/16 Propelinfonews.com – Meatcure opens Bedford restaurant, fourth site and first outside East Midlands: Gourmet burger restaurant company Meatcure has opened a restaurant in Bedford, its fourth site and first outside the East Midlands. The new venue in High Street is open daily, offering burgers, steaks, salads, sharing plates and desserts, alongside shakes and […]
Monday’s Food Cost Tip: Seasonal Produce
How does using seasonal produce save your business money? Seasonal food is a good idea to incorporate into your menus because it’s often cheaper. Why? Because it’s less effort to produce in season being grown naturally, without the need of expensive forced cultivation like greenhouses. That extra cost would normally be passed on to you. […]
Upselling – How not to do it!
If you attend seminar’s about how to increase your sales, the common theme is that it is easier to sell to existing customers/clients than to have to find new ones. In hospitality we call this “up selling”. It appears to be an art that a lot of operators have forgotten. When I first started out […]
Why Is this Hurting Your Bottom Line?
In a bar you have all sorts of cooling equipment such as Flash Coolers, Bottle Fridges and Cellar Coolers. They are designed to radiate heat into the air around them.
Golf Club Turns a Cost into Profit
The Shield Gazette has reported that the Whitburn Golf Club has launched a series of improvements to make the course fit for the 21st Century.
The Enhanced Capital Allowance Scheme for Energy Saving Technologies
Or How to give your cash flow a boost and reduce your operating costs. The Enhanced Capital Allowance (ECA) Scheme was brought in by the Government to encourage businesses to switch to energy saving technologies that are listed on the Energy Technology List (ETL). The ECA scheme allows business to write off 100% of the […]