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Sunny Location – Sunny Profits for your Bars Restrants

Sunny Location – Sunny Profits for Bars Restaurants

Buying a Spanish Bar or Pub in the Right Location

To be successful with a bar restaurant, which intends to open for morning or lunchtime trade as well as evening meals, you must have a sunny terrace.

When people come to Spain from the UK, they come for the sunshine. They don’t come to sit inside, so it’s very important that you have a terrace and that your terrace has sunshine.

Before you buy a place do your research and work out where the sunshine will fall in the

• Morning
• Noon
• Evening

If you have morning sunshine you’ll have a lot of customers for breakfast and if you have afternoon sunshine, then you’ll get more customers in the afternoon.

West Facing Bar

To get the most out of your terrace, it should be enclosable with side panels, which roll up to allow sunshine in. In July and August, from 4pm until 7 pm, if your terrace is west facing you’ll need to half drop the sides of the awning; otherwise it will be too hot for customers to sit there.

East Facing

If your terrace faces east and you catch the morning sun, you’ll need a roof on your terrace, which can be opened to allow more sunshine in during the winter months.

So as you see, you really do have to study how much sunshine your terrace is going to catch and at what time of the day. You must also look closely at the awning that may come with your bar, as if it doesn’t operate to allow you to control the sun on your terrace, then you will have to change it and to change it will cost a considerable amount.

Our terrace is “L” shaped and gets the afternoon sun, which is really perfect for our fast food business where we take most of our money from 2pm until 10 pm.

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