Are you a food and beverage design agency or part of a corporate chain?
If you work for a food and beverage design agency or are part of a corporate chain of restaurants, you are in exactly the right place to find out how we can help you.
Here’s how we help food and beverage design agencies and corporate chains
This is what we’ve learned working in these sectors over the years that makes us sure what we do can help you and your clients:
- You don’t want to be like everyone else, far from it, so you appreciate help to be innovative with design
- You often like novelty product ideas where they’re also practical
- You want the designs that you or your clients sign off to be reflected exactly in the final product. Exactly
- You or your clients want great branding, often that’s combined with wanting to sell more food and beverages, so you have to strike the right balance
- Sometimes you’re happy to bounce ideas, tactics and strategies around; sometimes you know exactly what you want, you just want someone to produce it
- Translating great design into a practical, efficient working environment also keeps you or your client happy
- You want the product quality to be first class, so everyone is more than satisfied
- You want a can do attitude – “we can make that work”, even if it’s a little difficult to produce
- Your ideal is to get the design fully signed off and not have to worry about anything else until the unit is ready to go
“You guys provide first class service which makes you a joy to work with on a project.”
Jess Milner, Client Account Manger at F&B Design Agency about the Haven Holiday Park project
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Now let’s translate that into what we do to make all that possible.
Here’s how we make life easy for you and produce great results for you or your clients
- The product design process will be thoroughly comprehensive so you and your client will be completely confident every design angle has been covered
- Those design angles include making certain the catering unit will be able to process your output requirements at maximum efficiency
- Every one of our van and trailer units is built to the highest standards. Classic trailer units are built with high specification materials to make them robust and long-lasting, we don’t stint on material quality anywhere. The same applies to everything we do. So the units will last
- Those standards also apply to our craftmanship. We work to ISO 9001:2015 and we have exhaustive quality control procedures so you or your client won’t be disappointed with the final product
- We can design a product to suit your budget and we’re expert at producing value for money in all aspects of the unit, from the kitchen equipment, to power and lighting, for gas, ventilation and extraction
- Every aspect of vehicle safety and certification is taken care of
- We can look after every aspect of catering unit design and production, from start to finish, from helping with idea conception to final sign writing and branding. If any very specialist services are needed, we’ll almost certainly have someone qualified we can rely on. That all helps to make your life easy
“The entire end to end process from the initial design discussions, the build quality/finish & the after sales service has all been very seamless.”
Garry Young, Ops Director of Healthy Yummies Ltd
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There’s far more that we do. You can discover some great stories of how we’ve helped some great names and brands, just carry on reading.
We’re very business focused and we know how to combine great design with results
If you think about it logically, that interior fit-out that’s just been commissioned, or the revised menu and pricing that’s been implemented, or the new equipment in the kitchen that saves 30 seconds each time a batch of food comes out of it – what were all those changes for?
Our team almost always finds that most big chain businesses (with respect) could do more to increase their customers’ average spend. We’ve learned so much from our clients over the years, we think this is an area where we stand out. That thinking goes further.
Higher footfall = more revenue. Better menu = repeat custom and higher revenue. More efficient piece of equipment = ability to serve food faster = more covers in a sitting = more profit. We’re sure that makes sense. That’s the language we use all the time in design meetings. More revenue, more profit almost always means more than happy end client.
“Originally we had about 4 or 5 different suppliers we used, but as soon as we came up to see Gary and could see what he could offer [it] was very impressive.”
Jazza Smith, owner of S&J Catering, Andover
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Are there business opportunities for you or your clients we can help you with?
We think there are some golden opportunities you could use or bring to the table for your client and make your business stand out from the crowd.
Ever more, restaurants and other food outlets may have to pivot their business taking into account the longer-term effects of the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic. Has your business or have your clients’ businesses returned to normal or are social distancing, and take-away / home delivery services here to stay for a while?
Here are some examples of how we think our F&B clients and their clients may be able to pivot their businesses:
- To maintain the market share of their brand, chains commission several food outlets spread around the big cities of the UK, making take-away services and home delivery fast and efficient
- It spreads the brand and gives an ideal opportunity to re-think the finances, saving money in areas such as restaurant fit out, no requirement for waiting staff
- All it needs is an area of rented land, no need for planning permission, no need for a council trading licence (to be checked for each council), a business can be trading from a new location very quickly.
- For those socially distanced restaurant seating plans, do you need to consider additional service points, bars or kitchens, inside or covered outside, to provide food directly to a comfortable outdoor seating area?
- Perhaps a takeaway/delivery service is now so popular it makes sense to give this service its own kitchen and collection point to save the need to queue within the main restaurant
For a while at least, the food and entertainment industry is changing, and changing fast. We see the opportunity for mobile or semi-mobile units to help the industry make that change more profitable. We’ve got lots of ideas on this theme, we’d love to see if we can help you help the industry to thrive, not just survive.
“I found that you guys really were the experts in what you do and we’re able to make the process very easy!”
Jess Milner, Client Account Manger at F&B Design Agency about the Haven Holiday Park project
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Success stories – our work with food and beverage agencies and large brands
Over the years we’ve worked on a wide variety of projects for several food and beverage design agencies and multiple large and blue-chip brands.
Follow the links below to see some of the more challenging and interesting case studies that show just some of the clients we have helped and how:
Haven Holiday Parks
Spot on branding and easy to operate mobile vans help Haven Holiday Parks to keep their customers spending on site vs off site.
Bella Italia Gelato Launch
A quirky Piaggio Trike vehicle helps Bella Italia launch Gelato desserts to the press and the public.
Linda McCartney Brand Awareness Vehicle
Please produce an all-electric drivable catering unit, with cooking facilities and self-sufficient and silent power generators, to be manned by various teams with little or no experience, where the branding can be changed to reflect different brands and different products in as little as 10 minutes.
Bella Italia – The Next Challenge
If you can launch our product from a trike, next please radically convert a minibus so we can take it into a restaurant to sell more product – Bella Italia’s next challenge.
Linda McCartney Merchandising Counters
If you can produce a unit to do all that, now reduce the size so it can be dismantled and taken into smaller venues, but keep the same output – keeping Linda McCartney and Covent Garden Foods happy.
Here’s what we promise we’ll do for you
The 4Sure 11 point Rock Solid Guarantee
(You’ll love No 11)
- If you’re not happy with your design when it’s finished, whatever you’ve paid at that time, just ask and we’ll refund it.
- Our products are always easy to operate, with no sharp edges or poor workmanship. If you don’t agree or you find sharp edges, we’ll fix what’s wrong for free.
- Our design process will always identify more money-making opportunities than you planned for.
- Your safety is our No 1 concern (actually it’s our No 1 concern only just ahead of you making profits from your unit). You’ll have every relevant safety certification when your unit is ready to leave our workshop.
- You’ll always benefit from talking to us, even if you don’t buy from us. We’ll always give you our best advice and we won’t be too salesy (but we don’t mind if you decide to buy).
- When we agree a completion date, it’s a drop-dead date.
- We never skimp on the quality of materials we use. Never.
- If you want your unit to be ready to go when it leaves our workshop, that’s what it will be, ready to go, straight to the pitch.
- Our support doesn’t end when you get your hands on your finished product. We’re there for any help, advice or guidance you need. Just call, we’ll help.
- You’ll realise we have to put a time limit on our guarantee against defects in parts or workmanship but we give you an industry leading no quibble full 2 years (we ask that you return the unit to our workshop)
- We always stand behind points 1 to 10, but here’s my personal guarantee, from Gary Wagstaff, owner of the business:
“If you order a catering unit from 4Sure and there’s anything you’re unhappy about, at any time, just call me and we’ll fix it.”
Please let us know how we can help you
Just give us a call now on 01536 202 944, if we can help with advice and information we’re happy to do so. Our initial advice is free and we think it’s second to none.