Why Restaurants Should Restore Furniture & Booths
Chefs and restaurant owners nationwide continue to strive for the best ways to retain more margin in their businesses. We all know the restaurant industry can be brutally expensive. Theft and shrink are also just part of the biz, mostly internal and some just be the design of the business. So more and more restauranteurs are looking to fabric and color restoration companies to help me bring new life to their old digs.
Refurbsining helps in financial downtimes
It’s been a tough few years due to the pandemic and recovering economy. Many restaurants sat vacant and unkept, others have been overwhelmed with “catch-up” business for those that could not wait to get back out and spend money on food and beverage experiences. Others have bought used spaces that need some help desperately in the design category.
So now, restaurant owners are seeking and relying on color and fabric restoration services to help weather the difficult seasons that we have been through. When your dining rooming begins to show signs of wear, tear, abuse and neglect, it directly reflects on the business and the operators themselves. It can damage the image and decrease sales. Over time many nasty little annoyances can happen to your restaurant.
These may include:
Seating may rip or tear
Booths can crack from excessive wear
Leather and vinyl can fade from the sun and lose their luster
Help for restaurant profits
Though restaurants are back open and adhering to semi-normal operating hours, additional waves of the variant have caused many customers to stay away from establishments that pack people in. Additionally, restaurant operators struggled with rising product costs and labor shortages. The U.S. Department of Agriculture forecasts food prices will continue to rise between 5 and 6 percent in 2022. High food costs can be attributed to supply chain issues, high labor costs, and disrupted harvests.
As the price of food rising is also affecting restaurants in dramatic ways through smaller food orders, reducing menu elements, and incurring greater pain from internal food shrink, restaurants are also still feeling the labor shortage. A current statistic out there suggests that nearly 60% of franchise brands and local owners cannot find the labor to meet current demand despite offering increased wages and hiring incentives.
So what do restaurant owners do? They need to attract valuable talent so they must increase wages. Many are offering sign-on bonuses and finding other ways to combat the crunch. Some restaurants are enabling online ordering and looking for ways to sell more off-site and operate with fewer employees.
Refurbish vs Replace
So this brings us to a growing trend. Restaurant furniture such as booths, chairs, vinyl surface areas, benches, leather, plastics, and more can be restored for less than half the price of buying new. Your local Color Glo Specialist should be in your address book.
We can even bring worn carpet back to life.
