Café consulting services that truly give your business a boost
At The Engine Room we approach cafe consulting differently. Our team integrates and collaborates with yours, so that we can get to the heart of your business’ identity, strategy and branding in order to understand how we can align your finances and operations with your aspirations.
We understand that working with a café consultant can seem like a daunting prospect to some. However, our difference in approach and focus on commercial insights provides an alternative, invaluable overview of your café. We pride ourselves on providing critical “outside-in” advice that holds your business’ values at its core.
Offering An Alternate Perspective
Often when running a hospitality business – whether it be a café, bar, restaurant or other – the opinions and reviews of others are invaluable. They inform you of what is working and – often more importantly – what isn’t. However, the opinions of customers, friends and family will only help you so much.
At The Engine Room we provide a different kind of perspective on your café business. Taking a deep dive into the mechanics of your business, from finances to operations, we identify optimal areas for improvement before applying tried and tested techniques to help fine tune your establishment from top to bottom. By offering an alternative, commercial-centric viewpoint, our café consultants help show you exactly what’s required to improve your business activities.
Optimising Your Café’s Profitability
Running a café that turns a significant profit is a notoriously tricky endeavour. The wide array of expenses, including staff wages particularly during slow periods, energy bills, increasing/fluctuating food costs and other overheads, can quickly take their toll on your margins.
However, instilling effective financial strategies, such as prudent cost management and effective menu engineering, can help grow your profit margins. This is precisely what we specialise in implementing. Without taking the reins from you, we will help guide your café towards a more profitable future.
Getting The Most From Your Financial Data
Accurate data usage has become an essential tool in the hospitality industry. However, we understand that juggling finances alongside your range of other responsibilities as a business owner can often seem an impossible task.
Our consultants help provide a picture of the current state of your business by integrating the multiple sources of data into one coherent report based on what you are trying to achieve and therefore want to measure. We make both quantitate and qualitative data useful which helps you make decisions that affect and ensure the growth of your café business focusing on long term goals, that forges your desired future and optimises your hard work.
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Contact UsEnsuring Your Café’s Operations Run Smoothly
A café is only as good as the staff that run it. Therefore, running your operations management in an efficient manner is crucially important. This incorporates everything from standardising daily procedures to improving understanding of key cost and profit drivers.
Our team of coffee shop consultants undertake a top to bottom analysis of your operations and identify potential areas of improvement. Rather than advising from the outside, we like to operate as an extension of your team. This includes travelling to your site(s) in order to get a better understanding of your café, your team and the goals that you are looking to achieve.
Wondering how we can help you? Here’s what some of our clients had to say:
“I just wanted to say that The Engine Room have been excellent advisors to help me expand my company. They are on the top of their game when it comes to numbers and projections. They also know how to listen and ask the awkward questions that make your business even more appealing to your market. Thank you for your help.”
Julien Plumart, Owner, Julien Plumart
“From our first meeting we felt completely supported by Andrew and his team. The professionalism and astute understanding of our business needs was evident, but with the agility we needed coming into the hospitality market. Giving the right commercial advice and support with commercial modelling for the business has been invaluable in our decision-making but more than that having The Engine Room’s hands-on commercial and operational support has given our business the confidence to grow in the right way. This is why The Engine Room is our commercial partner in all aspects of our business.”
Bruce Wilson and Sean Masters, Founders – Fare Traders Ltd
Are you seeking the help of a café consultant, but also don’t like the idea of working with one? Contact us today to steer away from a la carte consultancy find out what makes us different from the rest.
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