If your venue boasts outdoor facilities or alfresco dining, it’s worth considering how you manage your outdoor customers’ food and drink tabs. Summer offers a fantastic opportunity to attract new customers and delight regulars, but it also comes with its own set of challenges. From managing increased foot traffic to keeping things cool and comfortable, a little preparation can go a long way in ensuring a successful and profitable season.
One of the biggest challenges faced by hospitality venues is dine and dash, but there are ways to prevent it.
The CardsSafe system is designed to securely retain customer credit, debit, and ID cards while the cardholder runs a tab. This makes it the ideal deterrent for anyone contemplating walking out of your establishment without paying, especially if they are out of sight.
CardsSafe has been a trusted partner in the hospitality industry, assisting with bar tabs and significantly boosting profits. Renowned establishments like Young’s Pubs, Hilton Hotels, and many independent and chain restaurants and pubs have been reaping the benefits of CardsSafe for years.
CardsSafe for Pubs, Restaurants and Bars
Deers Hut in Liphook is a gorgeous pub in the heart of Hampshire, UK. The quintessentially British country pub first came to CardsSafe in early 2013 to seek help with a large volume of indoor and outdoor customers’ bar tabs. Deers Hut offers gourmet food and quality beverages to locals and tourists alike. The pub has a large outdoor area attracting many visitors throughout the year. Staying on top of where their customers sat outside was one of the main motivations for utilising CardsSafe in the pub. Deborah Steel, the Director, told us, “The CardsSafe system is great for servicing customers who enjoy our outside areas.”
CardsSafe virtually eliminates walkouts because it retains bank cards and allows secure tab-keeping. Rather than insisting on advance payment, businesses can keep tabs and up-sell while doing so. CardsSafe technology eliminates temptation or opportunism.
CardsSafe for Golf Courses
The system is wireless, so it’s flexible, too. One of the UK’s most prestigious golf clubs, the London Golf Club, boasts 36 holes of Jack Nicklaus-designed championship golf, an award-winning clubhouse, and hospitality facilities. They first came to CardsSafe in 2008 to assist with their bar tabs. They added additional units in 2014 and again in 2020 to help with customer golf equipment hires on the site.
The catering staff also use CardsSafe to serve golfers with food and drinks on the course. With hundreds of weekly visitors, club members and the wider public, CardsSafe has helped LGC store their customers’ bank cards securely while hiring golfing equipment and keeping tabs. The CardsSafe units are wireless and don’t need to be hardwired. For some businesses, the mobility of the units makes it an adaptable solution for offering customers refreshments on the green. Grant Rumbelow, Food and Beverage Operations Manager, said, “CardsSafe has been a welcome addition to the London Golf Club. We utilise the system in our Golf Shop and Spike Bar and on-course with our Drinks Buggy. With CardsSafe, we can safely store customers’ cards while they enjoy their round of golf.”
Get your venue course summer-ready, improve the bottom line and offer your customers more with CardsSafe.
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