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Successful café owners and restaurateurs know that finding cost effective ways to reduce operating expenses can over time dramatically improve profitability. The challenge is reducing operating expenses without sacrificing quality of service.

Almost all cafes and restaurants have some excess capacity (i.e empty tables). Determining how to make this excess capacity profitable is the challenge.

Some of the more savvy cafes and restaurateurs across Australia have found a solution to meet this challenge. Bartercard enables more than 20,000 Australian businesses to barter goods and services without the need for cash – helping to boost their sales, profits, cashflow and customer base.

By using Bartercard café owners and restaurateurs have been able to pay for many of their daily expenses, including security, renovations, printing, design work, food items, kitchen equipment, plus wine to name a few, without using their cash. Bartercard then directs new customers to the business to increase their trade balance to fund these purchases.

The net result is a ‘win/win’. The café owner and restaurateurs have saved their cash up front and have acquired new customers to fill some of their spare capacity (empty tables) at a marginal cost. Therefore they have increased their cash profitability, by offsetting cash expenses and increasing new customer sales.

The question you need to ask yourself as a café owner or restaurateur is, if you have to spend $1,000 on expenses such as cleaning, maintenance or marketing, would you rather pay cash or pay using your services?

To find out more on how Bartercard can assist your business, visit bartercard.com.au/hospitality or call us today on 1300 BARTER.

28 October 2014