You know the feeling. You’ve built your business and a great reputation, but it feels like you’ve peaked. Not only does this turn running your own shop, store or service into same-thing-every-day kind of drag, but it limits your profits. Raising prices is never popular with customers, but with the costs of gas – and all transported items – rising, all business owners are looking for new, creative ways to maximize the output of their stores, and shops.
One fun, easy, inexpensive way to add a new revenue stream to your business is through food services. By providing everything from a tasty snack to a real meal for your customers on-the-go, you can bolster the amount of purchases per customer. You can even give people craving your newly-available goodies a reason to stop by your store in the first place.
The easiest way to test out the food friendly possibilities that may exist at your business is to begin by offering light snacks. These snack solutions require little investment or maintenance on your part, but can bring in super-sized profits for your business.
Fill Up On Snacks
Once you have determined the demand for your new foodstuffs, there are any number of items you may be able to offer in order to satisfy your customer’s taste, curiosity, and appetites. Who doesn’t love a big, chewy, fresh-baked pretzel? This is the kind of item that nearly any business could offer to the delight of customer’s young and old. Just the smell alone will bring customers in to peruse your goods and enjoy a delicious treat. These easy to use, point of purchase food displays are a winning way to increase your per-customer sales, as well as enticing new customers to examine your wares. If pretzels aren’t to your customer’s taste, what about nacho chip merchandiser, or popcorn popper machine? There are a number of ways that these simple snack displays can become a booming part of your staple business. Mobile popcorn machine and cart can be very effective for antique dealers, flea market sales, or any kind of mobile artisan looking for that extra something that will draw customers in.
An Appetite For Profits
Perhaps you’ve already had some success offering food services at your business or you are interested in diving head first into adding food items as an integral part of your business plan, what is the next step? There are a number of ways that you can take food services to the next level at your business, creating a substantial revenue stream that may have customers stopping at your business for a meal in addition to becoming active buyers of your primary products and services. Offering hot dog lunches is a great way to attract new customers while also satisfying the cravings of lunch hour customers running errands during their midday work breaks. Hot dogs can also be a fantastic late night snack for convenience stores, catering to the late night bar crowd.
Pizza can be a luxurious alternative to snacks and hot dogs, creating a real-meal following among hungry customers looking for something more substantial for their food-hungry dollar. These low-maintenance types of displays allow your customers the luxury of a hot meal with minimal upkeep and maintenance on your part.
Your business needs to make a profit at every point. No matter what your product or service, don’t send a customer away hungry! Food services are a simple solution to customer satisfaction as well as growing your business in a new exciting way.