Cafe Kitchen: Relaxed food for friends from the Lantana Café

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General Company Description, in which you provide an overview of your company and the service it provides to its market. Layout, décor and atmosphere are all significant factors in making your customers as comfortable as possible, but also in ensuring that day-to-day activities run as smoothly as possible. Premises size and layout You may find it useful to use tools such as FloorPlanner.com to help you visualise how best to place in your cafe, as well as the logistics of queues and walkways. You may have to try a few different layouts before you get one that really works. Things to bear in mind include: If you want to sell hot food or drinks between the hours of 11pm and 5am, you'll need to make sure your premises licence includes 'the provision of late night refreshment'. You'll also have to bear in mind your local authority's stance on operating late at night, particularly if you're in a residential area. Both my husband and I had the Shakshouka, freshly baked bread, and washed it down with a turmeric latte. I am very new to these flavoured lattes and rather enjoyed the turmeric latte than the matcha latte that I recently tried for the first time at Where The Pancakes Are at Flat Iron food court.

If you have decided that your cafe could benefit from taking on staff, the next step is to advertise. Before doing this, it’s worth considering the type of person that would be best suited to fulfilling your cafe’s needs. If you are looking for a place for breakfast or brunch in Shoreditch you cannot go wrong with this place. The menu at Savoy Cafe & Kitchen is diverse and delicious with a slight Middle-East take on some of the items but there is something to suit every taste and preference. In the morning, you can enjoy a hearty breakfast of eggs, bacon, and avocado on toast, or opt for something lighter like a fresh smoothie or a bowl of oatmeal. For lunch and dinner, the cafe offers a range of sandwiches, salads, and main dishes, all made with fresh, high-quality ingredients. In 2014, there were over 18,800 coffee-selling outlets in the UK, which sold over 2 billion coffees to the caffeine-craving British public. As these figures suggest, the cafe culture is alive, well, and rapidly growing in the UK.

You may be looking for ways to increase custom in quiet periods, or you may be looking to expand your business on the whole. No matter what your goal is, there’s a good chance that reading through the following tips, and incorporating some of them into your daily procedures, will help to boost your cafe business for the better. Learn how to upsell People are innately social, so a little bit of interaction can go a long way. Just a few ways that you can add a more personal touch to your service are: Once you know your regulars, make sure that they know they’re appreciated. Simple gestures, such as giving away a free drink every now and then, can go a long way in securing their loyalty. Deal with complaints gracefully Sound – the music that you play in your cafe adds to the atmosphere. Think carefully about the style of music that you play, as well as the volume at which you play it. Competition – this is possibly one of the most important factors, as no matter how excellent your cafe’s proposition is, you may struggle to do business if the nearest 50 businesses are also coffee shops.

Once you have decided what types of food and drink your cafe will be selling, you can start thinking about designing and creating your menu. Remember, your cafe menu does not necessarily need to be a small booklet that customers leaf through while sat at a table. If you want to open a ‘grab and go’ style coffee shop, then your menu could be displayed entirely on large boards above the counter. A high level of customer service needs to be present and practised across your entire business, which means making sure that all of your staff’s customer service skills are up to scratch. Give them proper training before they get started so they know what’s expected of them, and reward the right behaviour to help ensure that standards don’t slip. What to do when it all goes wrong

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It’s no secret that starting your own business will cost money. Calculating the total amount of money needed, and what it will be spent on, is often one of the most intimidating tasks for an entrepreneur to carry out. You may get to the stage where you decide to take on staff to help you run your business. If you have never done this before, it can seem like a complicated process.

If you have the budget, you may want to consider enlisting the help of an interior designer to help you decorate your cafe. They will be able to give you design tips that will facilitate a good customer experience, as well as give you tips on how clever product placement can facilitate upselling. Cafe regulations and licenses to considerFor baristas and waiting staff – the employee should be a people person. Those with happy and bubbly personalities are ideal, as they are most likely to deliver a friendly, personable service to customers. Experience is preferable, but not essential as it is the personality that matters most. Fitting and decorating – you will probably have to furnish and decorate your business premises before you open, and there’s a chance that you may even have to commission some building work, too.

You may find it beneficial to keep your menu short and simple, to begin with. As some teething problems are to be expected in your first couple of weeks of opening, you don’t need to overcomplicate things for kitchen staff or baristas with a complex menu. It’s always possible to rethink your menu at a later date and add to it if you feel capable of handling more. What coffee will you go for? What your competitors are doing – are there any cafes of a similar size and stature nearby? If so, how many additional staff members do they have? Décor and atmosphere – a strong sense of style can sometimes be enough to pull in the punters – provided it is well-executed. Take this Egyptian-style cafe and this 50’s style diner as two good examples.A cafe located in a quiet area, for instance, might be able to save money by opening around midday – rather than in the morning – if there are few potential customers around early on.