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Bar Restaurant – Spain
After 24 years running my own Bar restaurant on the Costa del Sol, Spain, if I have learned one thing that is more important than anything else, it is this:
Every single time you serve a drink, a portion of garlic bread or say a pizza,
write it down on the customers bill immediately.
And
Train your staff from their very first day to stick rigidly to this system. The system is not only for security, as I talked about in an earlier post.
During my first two years here on the Costa del Sol, Spain, I lost count of how many times I remembered something that should have gone onto a customers bill, after they had paid and left my restaurant and then it was too late to do anything about it.
It’s not a nice feeling to have say cooked a pizza served it washed up and then realize that due to my own lack of a system, I have let the customer leave without paying for it and probably, that meant that I’d made zero profit on that table.
For the following 22 years I have written (and my staff too) every drink every food item down as soon as it is ordered never mind served.
In twenty four years I have never had a customer return to my bar restaurant to pay for something I had forgotten to charge them for.
Locating My Bar Restaurant Spain
There are three very important factors to consider when locating Your Bar Restaurant on the Costa del Sol.
I have listed them in oreder of importance:
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Location
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Good Sized Terrace
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Good Sized Kitchen
Location is absolutely vital
Pick a bad location and you’ll go out of business very quickly and also be stuck with a business that’s really difficult to sell
Pick a good location and with good planning, good customer service and hard work you’ll do well
I have been running bar restaurants on the Costa del Sol for 24 years and what I have learnt about choosing a good location would fill a small book, so that’s exactly what I’ve done. I have produced an e-book, which tells you everything you need to know about How to Locate a Bar Restaurant here on the Costa del sol.
My e-book will be available for sale on this website soon, but if you can’t wait, simply contact me and you can buy copy for just 12 eur.
