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Summer Days Too Tiring for Me

Quirt Period Between Lunch and Evening Trade – Bar Restaurant

Summer Trade

Unless you Bar Restaurant is located right near a busy beach you probably will have a quite period between the end of lunch and the start of the evening trade. This means that you could be very tired come the evening shift.

What are your options?

Well you could close from say 4:30 – 7 pm and then when you re-open you’ll feel refreshed and ready for the busy evening shift.

Are there any problems involved in doing that?

Well! when you return the local will be very hot inside and you will have lost some trade whilst you were closed, but it’s an option that many bar restaurant owners go for nevertheless.

You could leave a staff member in charge to sell drinks and simple snacks.

This is quite a good system, but you’ll need to have certain security checks in place to ensure that everything is going through the till. The best idea is to train staff that each time they serve something, it MUST be written on the customers bill. The reason for this, is that some staff will invite their friends and family when they know that you’re not going to be in the restaurant. If you pop in and out at unexpected times, you can look at the customer’s bills and see easily weather you are being cheated or not.

Take regular “X” readings

This also helps you to know if your losing money, as staff who steal usually put money in the till without ringing it up and then remove the excess cash later,when they get a chance.

You will need to keep on you toes if you don’t want to get ripped-off.

I hope that I have been helpful.

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