Food to Go premises

Food to Go premises
With the evolution of the 24 / 7 lifestyle and the demise of time to actually sit down as a family to eat a traditional meal, consumers are increasingly turning to food on the go.

With an average person spending £120 per year on meals on the go this is an area that many retailers can look to for a way to increase customer footfall and profits with very little initial outlay. Margins on grocery lines are continuing to be squeezed but you may be surprised at the difference cooking these standard lines can make.

For instance a standard 8 rasher pack of bacon which would normally be sold for around £1.99 can be turned into 4 bacon rolls where the return could be as much as £8.00. Caterers have been enjoying these profit margins on simple products for years and its time that independent retailers stood up for their fair share of this.

Just think, in a morning when your average customer will pop into your shop for their daily newspaper and then go to the coffee house for a coffee and hot snack. These customers probably do not want to make visits to two different premises and you could offer some simple products to make your premises their only stop off.

A contact grill can be purchased for just over £200 and will cook quickly and efficiently a wide variety of products for all times of the day. Breakfast Rolls in the morning, Toasted Sandwiches at lunch, Burgers for dinner. No specialist training is required and to sell just ten items a day would mean your initial outlay for the equipment would be repaid within just two weeks. Working with leading manufacturers we have selected several products below, that we feel are best suited to the needs of Food To Go products.

We have selected these items for their reliability, price, ease of use. Hopefully they will inspire you with a few different ideas of how to increase your footfall and profits and we feel they are an ideal starting point to introduce this new concept into your store.