Description
Start selling coffee and drinks with Your Food & Beverage Golf Cart and see your golf course profits double. As a golf course owner you only have 2 options to improve your bottom line. One is increasing green fees, the other is serving coffee, food and beverage to golf players. As you have seen, competition among golf courses is increasing day by day, but the number of rounds remains essentially stable. This is why lately all golf course operators are looking for ways to increase overall revenues. And coffee and food services are increasingly emerging as an essential component of profits. In fact, golf course owners who efficiently operate food and beverage golf carts double their profits. Of course, you first need to figure out how to satisfy your customers’ culinary desires.
How to Get More Profits from Your Food & Beverage Golf Cart
Start with beverage golf carts that help quench your customers’ thirst while helping your bottom line. While beverage carts are often seen as a superfluous amenity, they can actually be a major profit center. At some golf courses a beverage golf cart exceeds the sales threshold of $ 2.000 per day, which is truly spectacular. Especially if you think it generates that amount of revenue with just one golf cart operator. How many waiters are needed to generate this amount in a traditional restaurant? With these numbers a food and beverage golf cart can quickly go from being a luxury to a necessity. As beverage carts gain traction, more and more golfers become accustomed to drinking and eating while playing. And soon more and more people expect to find this service on all golf courses.
Golf Cart Technical Specifications
Motor power: 4 KW
Battery: 48 V maintenance free battery
Maximum range: 90 Km
Turning radius: 4.8 m
Climbing ability: 18%
Ground clearance: 110 mm
Loading capacity: 2 people
Overall Size: 3630 x 1200 x 1900 mm
Net weight: 560 Kg (including battery)
The Secrets of a Successful Food and Beverage Business
Many golf course owners are realizing that the beverage cart is the most profitable part of a golf business. In fact, considering the small amount it costs, it returns a huge profit if spread over its entire useful life. In summary, a cart costs $ 20.000 and generates a profit of $ 100.000 to $ 200.000 per year with a useful life of 5 to 10 years. This is a pretty good return considering the only costs you have are those of an operator serving drinks to golfers. The first secret to a successful Food & Beverage Golf Cart is customer service.
The second secret is visibility. It is essential that golfers see the vehicles at least two or three times per round. Golf carts must be present when the customer is on the course and must come into contact with a golfer multiple times during a round. If there is no contact with golf players you will not sell anything. To ensure that golfers receive adequate service, operators must be able to recognize when golf players wishes to drink. For this it may be necessary to have several Food & Beverage Golf Carts distributed along the golf course. And add staff when there are special events. The third secret is to move the foof carts in the reverse order of the holes, starting from n. 18 and going up towards n. 1. This allows the golf players to see the cart coming.
Training of Food & Beverage Golf Cart Sales Personnel
All golf course employees must complete a customer service program, often repeated over the years. This is because golf players are very demanding people and love to be pampered in their free time. And when we talk about employees we also include the Food & Beverage Golf Cart staff. Operators must understand the rule of golf and know it enough not to approach golfers when they are engrossed in the game. But they must always be vigilant and understand when and how to approach golf players.
What To Sell with Your Food & Beverage Golf Cart
To have a good return on golf food cart sales, you first need to know what your customers value most. Naturally, a lot depends on the geographical position you are in and the temperature. In North America and Europe, beer is the best-selling product, accounting for 60% of sales. While other drinks such as iced tea, mineral water and fruit juices barely reach 20%. Just like candy bars, pretzels and peanuts make up the remaining 20%. The coffee golf carts deserve a separate discussion. Mobile Cafes that serve espresso and cappuccino accompanied by muffins and croissants for breakfast in the morning. These coffee golf carts are becoming increasingly popular especially among young golf players.
Tips and Tricks To Maximize Sales from Your Food & Beverage Golf Cart
First create a standard route. Often beverage cart operators aren’t always golfers. There are students looking for a summer job driving a beer cart. Even after a preparatory course they can’t remember what the golf course is like. Secondly, it highlights the recommended path for staff to follow, complete with direction and side to follow. This is extremely important from a coverage perspective to maximize sales and create a control matrix for management. You can easily track trips based on travel time and sales. Third, always drive the Food & Beverage Golf Cart toward golfers whenever possible. Fourth, make sure the route is easy and safe by avoiding steep climbs and crossings with other golf carts. Because some operators are inexperienced drivers and driving on grass can be tricky.
Fifth, when two holes play in the same direction, move the Food & Beverage Golf Cart closer to the center of the two. So you can maximize sales and minimize distraction for golf players. Sixth, avoid driving on rough roads whenever possible. Seventh, the Food & Beverage Golf Cart attendant should always wait for golf players to get their shots before approaching. Finally, prepare an entry/exit sheet for the food golf cart driver. The driver must fill in the sheet with the time taken to do the tour and the stops made. This way you monitor operators and performance improves.
Including
Food & beverage golf cart
Fridge
Food display case
Solar panels
Coffee machine (optional)
