As a restaurant business owner, it is probably common for you to be jolly when your restaurant is full with customers. However, imagine this, your customers starting to walk away with disappointment. Perhaps it is not because of the food and beverage quality but, merely because they have been waiting for their food or drink order that seems to never come…and sometimes it could be due to the simplest yet overlooked factor such as “there are not enough glasses to serve the drinks with”
Glassware and Restaurant the problem that is never ‘enough’
It is only natural for a business owner of a restaurant or a cafe to face various day-to-day problems; from finding the perfect location, to the hunt for right ingredients, to decoration, the presentation of a dish, the human resource or the most overlooked part of the operation which is glassware par stock. In this case, if there is a miscalculation on glass par stock’s order, it could lead to a disaster in the future. To illustrate, try asking, what if there are not enough glasses for an event or a party? That means a new order for glassware would have to be made. Moreover, at a party it is almost impossible to keep washing the used glass as it would be a lot of time consuming. On the other hand, if there are too many in stock then your money would go to waste.
How should Club & Lounge stock the glassware?
Another type of business that may experience problems if that store doesn’t have enough glasses in stock is the Club & Lounge business. This type of store focuses mainly on serving alcoholic beverages. Therefore, having quality glass could be a ‘great first impression’ for the customers. Stores like this tend to have different types of glass in stock because each type of beverage has its own distinctive flavors in which the glass can help bring out the flavor as well. That is why this type of business requires all kinds of glass. For instance, depending on the drinks that a store would serve to customers such as wine, the store should have tall glass to serve. This little detail could be fairly difficult for Club & Lounge business to calculate the proper glass stock due to the fact that it is quite hard to predict which drink the customers would order each day.
In addition, usually this type of business allows the customers to carry the glass and walk around. There is a risk that customers may damage the glass and that may become the cost for the entrepreneur later on if the shop has to continuously order new glasses into stock. The advice in this matter is to choose durable glass or have the waitresses to keep an eye on the customers. These methods may help to reduce some problems that may occur. Nevertheless, the best solution is for the shop to be prepared in advance for any bad situation that may happen by calculating the par stock for the use.
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What factors a business owner should put into consideration when it comes to checking glass par stock?
Today, Ocean Glass will share important principles in helping to arrange a glass stock for the shop. With these steps, there will be no such problems with insufficient glassware. The factors that the shop must consider when purchasing the glass stock are as follows:
1. The style of the shop
What kind of store and service are you planning to run? A restaurant, a cafe, a pub or fine dining? All of these have different characteristics and details. In some places, like coffee shops, there will be regular ‘sit and chill’ customers and those who would prefer to takeaway. Another type such as fine dining restaurants may not get a lot of frequent customers thus, good quality glass is preferred, although the price may be high but it is worth for investment as the business does not require large amounts of glassware.
2. The seat availability
The number of seats or the size of the store is the second factor used in the calculation. If there are many seats it means that in each round where there are people entering the restaurant, there should be a minimum of glassware twice the number of customers. If the shop doesn’t have enough glass reserved for customers, then time would be wasted for the glass to be cleaned and it may lead to customer complaints.
3. The usage frequency of each glass type
This may sound confusing at first. You may ask, what does it mean by frequency? In this case, ‘frequency’ refers to the number of customers who use each type of glass each day. For example, a Bistro or Fine Dining restaurant will use a large amount of wine and cocktail glasses.
All of the mentioned principles are something that an entrepreneur must use to calculate the glass stock. By using the formula x capacity, number of turns (per meal) = Operating outlet = Stock par. However, if ‘help’ is needed to calculate the glass stock, Ocean Glass has a program to calculate immediately. Please follow the link below:
Fill your glassware par stock with good quality glass from Ocean Glass
Of course, when the glass stock is calculated, the next thing is to order the glass to fill in the stock. If you are finding glassware with quality which is worth the price, we would love to introduce you to Ocean Glass because all of our glasses have passed international quality guarantees. Moreover, our glasses are durable in which come with various designs to meet all applications, whether it is a hot coffee mug or a luxury glass of wine.
Ocean Glass has premium quality glasses that will add happiness to every moment of the meal for your restaurant customers. We offer a reasonable price which equals wholesale price, helping you to top-up the glass par to the full capacity in a controlled budget.
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