Simple ways to maximise your hotel profits

Guests deserve the best value and hotels need sustainable profits. With a bit of smart thinking, those two facts can work together to deliver the best solutions for all.

In our range of resources, you’ll find advice on how to maximise both profits and guest satisfaction while saving time, effort and money in the kitchen. Our Unlock Your Menu pages are packed with useful advice, and our Everyday Favourites range provides a great variety of dishes – all with the quality you know you can trust, and the competitive pricing you need.

Our Simple Solutions guide focuses on time-saving through keeping things simple, especially at a time of skilled labour shortages.

Our Unlock Your Menu pages also suggest smart ingredient swaps that can enhance the gross profit of your dishes. Adaptive pricing can also help, by managing demand and unlocking profit between traditional mealtimes. It’s all in there, ready to implement.

Finally, our reducing food waste section has tips and support on how to reduce food waste, often by repurposing ingredients in different ways – benefitting both the planet and your bottom line.

Guest expectations around more flexible mealtimes present all-day opportunities for creating extra sources of profit.

For example, our breakfast infographic shows that while a full 90% of leisure guests still value the traditional hotel breakfast, there’s a strong trend towards ‘grab and go’ among those on business and younger guests, with 79% overall saying flexibility is important. That’s where adaptive daypart opportunities like Brunch come into their own.

Leisure and weekend guests are driving huge uptake in concepts like ‘bottomless’ drinks offers. On weekdays, the increasingly common ‘digital nomad’ makes regular ‘workations’ ever more popular – so it’s a good plan to ensure your brunch offer facilitates this trend, with special deals welcoming those working from the bar or restaurant.

Later in the day, Afternoon Tea and Picnics are also increasingly on guest wish-lists. Our Daypart Solutions pages offer support in thinking creatively about different meal or drink occasions to enhance guest satisfaction. Get it right and you’ll drive both profit and profile for the entire dining operation.