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March 2014 | Garden Centre & Farm Shop CATERING

Many businesses now attract more customers because of their restaurants and cafés, providing an ideal setting to eat and drink whilst shopping for horticultural needs and many other items. The one major benefi t that they have over many high street restaurants and cafes is spacious car parking, which is normally free..

Over the years these eateries have become a place to taste homemade meals and enjoy fresh produce, but their existence may be almost as secret as the location of Atlantis. These centres need to be known not only as just a stop off point for choosing plants and all garden needs but also to be known as a place where a fantastic meal or snack is served.

This is where Foodit comes in:

NEVER GET LOST ON GOOGLENew customers are looking online for places to try, if you don’t take proactive measures, you’ll get left behind.

This can be as easy as keeping your information up-to-date on Google Maps, but it should also involve more intensive efforts like Search Engine Optimization to ensure you are high up on Google searches.

That’s something FOODit has helped eateries do and we can help make sure you never lose out on a new customer because they cannot easily fi nd you online.

TURN DATA INTO £££’SYou should be constantly trying to collect e-mail addresses and contact information in order to keep in touch and keep those customers coming back again and again.

Having your own online ordering system allows you to collect e-mail addresses in the natural course of customers placing their orders. Marketplaces that don’t let you own your customer data allow you to reach new customers, but make it incredibly hard to keep those customers engaged and get them back through the door.

FOODit’s system helps you work around those obstacles as it allows you to collect and store your customers data yourself—then bringing in more sales with our easy-to-use promotions and rewards programs.

DON’T MISS OUT ON ONLINE ORDERING It’s 2014—every serious eatery should have it’s own website, and with that, every eatery should allow customers to place orders online.

Customers prefer placing orders online and they are voting with their feet. In addition to collecting customer data, offering online ordering gives you a unique edge over the competition.

HOW COULD THIS BENEFIT A GARDEN CENTRE EATERY? Customers nowadays have less time to waste, so for them to be able to select an arrival time and have their meal ready, whether for a sit down meal or takeaway, would benefi t them greatly. This also helps organise your stock better as you will have advance notice of what your customer would like to eat, and if you need to order more supplies.

As you become more popular you may fi nd a future in delivery could be on the books.

Whether it be bringing prepared lunches to nearby businesses or maybe even to customers homes themselves!

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And why stop at the catering part of your business, our format could be utilised in your other divisions by establishing a Click & Collect service for cut fl owers,

plants and all garden supplies. If you already have a delivery service then our

technology is an ideal ready-to-use system which makes offering delivery with state-of-

the- art tracking and customer notifi cation easier than ever before.

The opportunities to expand your business by adopting new technology are endless and you can only ignore these advances at the cost

of losing sales.

GET YOUR CENTRE ONLINE IN 5 DAYS!Start taking orders from your own website, collect customer contact details and ensure that you never get lost online again.

With FOODit’s online ordering and equipment packages starting at £449, you cannot afford not to keep up.

LEARN MORE TIPS:Check out 15 tips from FOODit CEO Rif Kiamil and fi nd out how you can make your eatery more profi table.

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