Setting up your pub/club/restaurant on @UK PLC.
There are two key parts to having a pub business. One is owning and renting out the premises, and it may be better to own this personally. If you are renting then this is not an issue. The other part is running the business, where you are best to have a limited company operating the day to day business. @UK PLC has formed lots of pub/club and restaurant operating companies.
In terms of having a profitable business it is the usual elements of making sure you buy your food and drinks at good prices, and have enough customers paying reasonable prices to make the business profitable.
@UK PLC provided the software to Quenelles the catering industry price benchmark, so we can help ensure that you are buying at a sensible price. @UK PLC can also automate the process of purchasing from your suppliers so that you purchase electronically. This provides a number of advantages to your suppliers since they get accurate orders for items that they have in stock and can return electronic invoices.
You can use the internet, Google, Facebook, Twitter and an @UK PLC site to help bring more customers to you. An @UK PLC site has build in support for selling tickets to events, and this is a great way of attracting interest in the local press, facebook, twitter etc. It is important that you do not oversell tickets and the system supports selling a fixed number of tickets so you can be sure that only 50 or 100 or whatever your maximum capacity of tickets are sold, since the last thing you need is a successful promotional event to turn into a PR disaster. @UK PLC can help ensure that any event you put on is a success.