Trends & Insights

As a business, you’re always looking for ways to improve upon your current operations, productivity and profitability. Whether it be streamlining the administration process, or providing staff with training, most of what you do is intended to make your business grow. However, there are some implementations that are often overlooked. When it comes to employee satisfaction and company morale, making changes to the office that make your staff feel appreciated is always a good idea.

As winter approaches, it’s an important time to start planning your speciality beverage menu or to increase your spend on hot beverages for resale. It’s the perfect time of year to feature more hot drinks, chocolate refreshments, and alternative desserts, which are sure to ignite your sales.

The development of beverage promotions that speak to the weather is continuously increasing in importance for profit-driven operators who wish to attract growth in sales. Here are a few ways in which you can reach your business goals.

Whether you’re a start-up or you’ve been running your operation for years, there’s one thing you need to know: your office needs a quality coffee machine.

You may consider it unnecessary, perhaps you feel it’s simply an extra expense. But a quality coffee machine isn’t just another purchase, its an investment. You’ll also have no shortage of options considering you even have the choice of coffee machine rental for offices. If you’re still not convinced, here are four reasons to change your mind.

The workspace is no longer a drab and dreary place where people spend hours on end producing work against their will. The workspace is becoming more welcoming and conducive to work by incorporating things that make employees feel at ease and inspired.

As coffee culture sweeps over South African workspaces, employees have started to grow accustomed to having quality coffee on demand in their working environments. In fact, 95% of South African employees classify quality coffee as the most important aspect of their working environment.

Running a business where you provide products or services to clients, means you rely on their consistent satisfaction. Even the slightest inconvenience can tarnish a perfect track record. While this means you have to stay on top of your game, it also provides you with an opportunity to go the extra mile.

Since the wellness of your business depends on the satisfaction of your clients and customers, any of your efforts that go above and beyond will go a long way in ensuring your customers keep coming back for more. Read on to discover additional approaches your business can take in order to provide your clients with an experience they can’t find somewhere else.

Owning or managing a hotel, B&B or guest house is a career many dream about. Every day, you’ll meet and take care of different guests from various places around the world. Your guests have chosen to start and finish every day of their trip with you, and now it’s up to you to make those moments memorable.

What most don’t realise is how much responsibility comes with taking care of those moments, which can cause a lot of pressure. Ensuring that each and every guest enjoys their stay is what your business success relies on. Additionally, considering how many guests you are responsible for, it’s undeniably crucial to have quality coffee on hand. 

If that isn’t convincing enough, here are a few more reasons why coffee is vital to your business.

Having a small kitchen where your staff can prepare their meals just isn’t the same as having a break room, which should be a priority for almost every office. In fact, every office should strive to have the perfect break room. Perfect for your employees and well suited to your company culture, let’s unpack the importance of an office break room as well as how to set one up.

For many years, there has been a debate around whether coffee breaks help or hinder performance in the workplace. While some may feel that it wastes precious time that could have been used otherwise, others acknowledge that breaks, especially coffee breaks, can provide a necessary boost. We’re exploring the topic to discern what the benefits of offering delicious coffee in the workplace are.

The history of coffee is definitely an interesting one. From the story of how the coffee bean fruit may have been discovered by a goat in Ethiopia to all the different coffee products available to us in 2018, there’s a lot to learn about this delicious drink we all know and love. Today, we’ll be discovering the evolution of how coffee has been prepared throughout history.

Owning or managing a hotel, B&B or guest house is a job many people dream about. You get to meet so many different people from all over the world and learn about their lives. You get to spend each day where people choose to pay to stay on holiday. And your job is never the same from one day to the next.

However, what many people don’t know is that there is a lot of pressure on you. You are responsible for attracting guests, keeping them happy and making sure every area of the business is run well. Ensuring that each and every guest enjoys their stay is what your job is all about. And that’s exactly why having good coffee available is vital to your business. Here are just a few reasons why.

Whether you’re an executive at a large corporate or the owner of a SME, you should be considering introducing a cafeteria. You may think that you pay your staff enough that they can feed themselves. And that might be true. But there are many benefits to having an onsite cafeteria. And you don’t necessarily have to offer your employees free food, you can simply make it cheaper for them than if they were to eat elsewhere.

So, what are these benefits that outweigh the cost of setting up a cafeteria in your building?

When you start a catering company, you do it for the love of food and the love of being involved in an event no one will ever forget. And you know that in order to do that, it’s going to take a lot of hard work, skilled staff and long hours. You may even want to put your own spin on a classic catering company and add a certain flair that clients wouldn’t be able to find anywhere else.

But first, of course, you’re going to need to know the basics of how to make your company a success. And that relies entirely on how you handle each event. So, to help you out, here is some advice on how to make the most of your catering business.