How Can A Bar Consultancy Help Your Venue?
By Tom
Our bar consultancy provides specialized services to help bars and other hospitality businesses improve their operations, profitability, and customer experience.
The drinks industry and venues are incredibly complex, and a successful bar has many of moving parts and risks of making costly mistakes.
Even highly experienced hospitality clients, in our view, need support in crafting drinks programmes and menus which are culturally aware, lean into fast paced drinks trends and are developed with the customer demographic in mind.
At Wilde Toast we collaborate with the best in the business, so while we have a strong in-house bar consultancy team, we will always look to bring in partners on specialised elements of any project.
To give an oversight of the bar consultancy services that Wilde Toast can offer:
- Concept Development and Branding: Assisting in creating or refining the bar’s concept, theme, and brand identity to appeal to the target market.
- Menu Design and Development: Crafting drink menus, including cocktails, beer, wine, and non-alcoholic beverages, to align with the brand, demogrpahics and maximize profitability.
- Operational Efficiency: Streamlining operations to improve service speed, quality, and consistency. This can involve staff training, workflow optimization, and inventory management.
- Financial Management: Analyzing financial performance, setting pricing strategies, and implementing cost control measures.
- Interior Design and Layout: Advising on the bar’s physical design and layout to enhance the customer experience and operational efficiency.
- Licensing Compliance: Ensuring the bar complies with local laws and regulations, including health and safety standards, and licensing requirements.
From the perspective of the typical clients that we work with, this is varied. Our expertise lies in bars and the development of bars which can be in a setting. Typical clients come from a variety of channels:
• Independent Bars and Pubs: Small, standalone establishments looking to improve their bar offering or develop from scratch.
• Restaurant Chains: Establishments seeking to develop or refine their bar offerings to complement their food service.
• Hotel Bars: Hotel establishments aiming to enhance their guest experience with a high-quality bar service.
• Nightclubs and Lounges: Venues focusing on nightlife and entertainment, seeking to optimize their drink service and customer experience.
• Event Spaces: Locations that host events and require a well-functioning bar service.
• Startups: New ventures in the bar industry needing guidance to set up their operations from scratch.
By working with these clients, our bar consultancy team help improve the overall performance and success of hospitality businesses.
To see some recent projects to understand more see some of our previous hotel, restaurant, venue and bar projects.
