10 steps for a smart lockdown strategy Table of Contents Prepare a lockdown checklist Monitor completion of lockdown task Expand your circle and help each other Complete a close-down stock take or stock count Carry out an inventory count Perform a detailed cash count Don’t neglect beer disposal and line checks Step up security Use…
Protect Your Staff and Minimise Contact Between Staff and Customers Our sister company Vennersys have launched a standalone table food and drink ordering solution which is helping pubs, bars and restaurants open safely. Patrons can order food and drink whilst seated using their own mobile phone or tablet. This process fully integrates with bar,…
10 Tips for Looking Ahead As Featured in BII News – Autumn 2020 edition As another lockdown looms and furlough draws to a close, many businesses face an uncertain future. Whatever situation you’re facing, now is the time to draw a breath and look ahead with a fresh pair of eyes. In truth, operators…
How can holiday park and caravan park operators make greater profit from their clubhouses, bars and restaurants? Tips from Malcolm Muir, Venners Consultancy Director UK holiday park and caravan park operators have been benefiting from the boom in stay-cations across the UK over the last couple of years. Now more than ever, this travel trend…
Is now the time to reconsider outsourcing your stocktaking and compliance auditing? by Duncan Colvin, Head of Compliance The stark reality of our current trading landscape is that we all have to make some brutal decisions about fixed salary costs. This should not, though, impact on your service or on the controls in…
Malcolm Muir, Consultancy Director at Venners Ltd shares his seven tips for better profit control in a post COVID-19 world. As the hospitality industry reopens under new trading restrictions, many operators are still feeling uncertain about the future. Particularly of concern is the expected reduction in footfall as a direct result of social distancing…
Corporate Governance and Risk in 2018 2018 was a year of quite startling change for the hospitality industry, in many ways. Certainly our company, Venners, went through a process of reinvention, as companies often should. At the same time, the industry’s trading and regulatory climate shifted to something more complex, more dystopian. Venners…
We call them compliance audits, but you might know them by another name. Regardless, we would argue that the practice of sending an auditor to your franchisees to check that they’re operating to the standards your franchise business requires is hugely important, for a number of reasons. Here are our seven main reasons why franchisors…
As a franchisor, you want to feel secure knowing that your franchisees are operating in line with your brand’s standards, as well as the terms of the franchise agreement. This is important to franchisors for a number of reasons, and you can read about why in this article. However, explicitly knowing that franchisees are complying…
As hospitality suppliers we are positive that every category within our sector needs a specialist approach when it comes to securing finances and operations. The night-time industry is no exception to this. In fact, when it comes to bars and nightclubs we might even go as far as to say that it is one of…