With the Christmas party season looming large on the horizon, venues and customers alike are readying themselves for what is the busiest time of the year for the hospitality industry. For caterers, Christmas can be both ruthless and rewarding. It is the one time in the year when they can expect to be constantly busy with group bookings, so filling every available table is a top priority.
Maximising occupancy, however, is no guarantee of financial success in this boom period. Daily operational challenges such as staffing issues, product availability and supplier deliveries, for example, will all impact efficiency and ultimate profitability, so it’s critical for venues to be able to manage their party bookings in a simple and effective way.
Currently, venues have the challenge of collecting and managing the individual menu selections of dozens (if not hundreds) of guests at a single event. These arrive in any number of different formats: faxed order forms; scanned spreadsheets; or even individual emails. All in all a very confusing and time-consuming process for the venue.
Preoday’s Group Booking solution cuts through the confusion and reduces administration time to a bare minimum, allowing managers and front-line staff to spend more time delivering exceptional service to customers.
At the heart of the service is an online ordering platform which enables venues to set up menus for booked tables and for guests (or event organisers) to pre-order menu choices before an agreed deadline, ahead of the meal. Thanks to its market leading user interface, venues can create menus with as many courses as they want, including dishes with single or multiple modifiers, as well as global or individual menu pricing.
Venues can monitor orders for each event in real time. For event organisers, there are many benefits, not least of which is the consolidation of orders on a single online platform; providing a complete audit trail of who has ordered what, and when each order was placed. Having information like this provides invaluable procurement and waste management oversight to organisers, and helps identify which guests need to place orders before the cut off deadline.
For Christmas 2016, the Preoday Group Booking system has been integrated exclusively with the leading online restaurant bookings system ResDiary. This means that venues will be able to link their online reservations with group booking pre-orders for an holistic control process for managing one of the busiest periods in the business calendar for the hospitality sector.
The Preoday Group Booking system, however, is not just for Christmas! It is also used by venues for any large scale catering event including weddings and other social or business occasions that take place throughout the year.
For further information, contact Dominic Hall on dominic.hall@preoday.com
It’s not as catchy as: ‘When is a door not a door?’ (answer, when it’s a jar) but it speaks to the idea that in-car collection, and the technologies that support it, are flexible enough to bend to the needs of a business and its guests.
Delivery can be daunting to the uninitiated, and it might be tempting to sign up with a third-party ordering aggregator that offers the service, such as UberEats, but other options could suit your business and brand better. Here we present three different ‘levels’ of delivery, starting with the most basic – and cheapest method: doing it yourself.
With the Christmas party season looming large on the horizon, venues and customers alike are readying themselves for what is the busiest time of the year for the hospitality industry. For caterers, Christmas can be both ruthless and rewarding. It is the one time in the year when they can expect to be constantly busy with group bookings, so filling every available table is a top priority.
Maximising occupancy, however, is no guarantee of financial success in this boom period. Daily operational challenges such as staffing issues, product availability and supplier deliveries, for example, will all impact efficiency and ultimate profitability, so it’s critical for venues to be able to manage their party bookings in a simple and effective way.
Currently, venues have the challenge of collecting and managing the individual menu selections of dozens (if not hundreds) of guests at a single event. These arrive in any number of different formats: faxed order forms; scanned spreadsheets; or even individual emails. All in all a very confusing and time-consuming process for the venue.
Preoday’s Group Booking solution cuts through the confusion and reduces administration time to a bare minimum, allowing managers and front-line staff to spend more time delivering exceptional service to customers.
At the heart of the service is an online ordering platform which enables venues to set up menus for booked tables and for guests (or event organisers) to pre-order menu choices before an agreed deadline, ahead of the meal. Thanks to its market leading user interface, venues can create menus with as many courses as they want, including dishes with single or multiple modifiers, as well as global or individual menu pricing.
Venues can monitor orders for each event in real time. For event organisers, there are many benefits, not least of which is the consolidation of orders on a single online platform; providing a complete audit trail of who has ordered what, and when each order was placed. Having information like this provides invaluable procurement and waste management oversight to organisers, and helps identify which guests need to place orders before the cut off deadline.
For Christmas 2016, the Preoday Group Booking system has been integrated exclusively with the leading online restaurant bookings system ResDiary. This means that venues will be able to link their online reservations with group booking pre-orders for an holistic control process for managing one of the busiest periods in the business calendar for the hospitality sector.
The Preoday Group Booking system, however, is not just for Christmas! It is also used by venues for any large scale catering event including weddings and other social or business occasions that take place throughout the year.
For further information, contact Dominic Hall on dominic.hall@preoday.com
It’s not as catchy as: ‘When is a door not a door?’ (answer, when it’s a jar) but it speaks to the idea that in-car collection, and the technologies that support it, are flexible enough to bend to the needs of a business and its guests.
Delivery can be daunting to the uninitiated, and it might be tempting to sign up with a third-party ordering aggregator that offers the service, such as UberEats, but other options could suit your business and brand better. Here we present three different ‘levels’ of delivery, starting with the most basic – and cheapest method: doing it yourself.
With the Christmas party season looming large on the horizon, venues and customers alike are readying themselves for what is the busiest time of the year for the hospitality industry. For caterers, Christmas can be both ruthless and rewarding. It is the one time in the year when they can expect to be constantly busy with group bookings, so filling every available table is a top priority.
Maximising occupancy, however, is no guarantee of financial success in this boom period. Daily operational challenges such as staffing issues, product availability and supplier deliveries, for example, will all impact efficiency and ultimate profitability, so it’s critical for venues to be able to manage their party bookings in a simple and effective way.
Currently, venues have the challenge of collecting and managing the individual menu selections of dozens (if not hundreds) of guests at a single event. These arrive in any number of different formats: faxed order forms; scanned spreadsheets; or even individual emails. All in all a very confusing and time-consuming process for the venue.
Preoday’s Group Booking solution cuts through the confusion and reduces administration time to a bare minimum, allowing managers and front-line staff to spend more time delivering exceptional service to customers.
At the heart of the service is an online ordering platform which enables venues to set up menus for booked tables and for guests (or event organisers) to pre-order menu choices before an agreed deadline, ahead of the meal. Thanks to its market leading user interface, venues can create menus with as many courses as they want, including dishes with single or multiple modifiers, as well as global or individual menu pricing.
Venues can monitor orders for each event in real time. For event organisers, there are many benefits, not least of which is the consolidation of orders on a single online platform; providing a complete audit trail of who has ordered what, and when each order was placed. Having information like this provides invaluable procurement and waste management oversight to organisers, and helps identify which guests need to place orders before the cut off deadline.
For Christmas 2016, the Preoday Group Booking system has been integrated exclusively with the leading online restaurant bookings system ResDiary. This means that venues will be able to link their online reservations with group booking pre-orders for an holistic control process for managing one of the busiest periods in the business calendar for the hospitality sector.
The Preoday Group Booking system, however, is not just for Christmas! It is also used by venues for any large scale catering event including weddings and other social or business occasions that take place throughout the year.
For further information, contact Dominic Hall on dominic.hall@preoday.com
It’s not as catchy as: ‘When is a door not a door?’ (answer, when it’s a jar) but it speaks to the idea that in-car collection, and the technologies that support it, are flexible enough to bend to the needs of a business and its guests.
Delivery can be daunting to the uninitiated, and it might be tempting to sign up with a third-party ordering aggregator that offers the service, such as UberEats, but other options could suit your business and brand better. Here we present three different ‘levels’ of delivery, starting with the most basic – and cheapest method: doing it yourself.
With the Christmas party season looming large on the horizon, venues and customers alike are readying themselves for what is the busiest time of the year for the hospitality industry. For caterers, Christmas can be both ruthless and rewarding. It is the one time in the year when they can expect to be constantly busy with group bookings, so filling every available table is a top priority.
Maximising occupancy, however, is no guarantee of financial success in this boom period. Daily operational challenges such as staffing issues, product availability and supplier deliveries, for example, will all impact efficiency and ultimate profitability, so it’s critical for venues to be able to manage their party bookings in a simple and effective way.
Currently, venues have the challenge of collecting and managing the individual menu selections of dozens (if not hundreds) of guests at a single event. These arrive in any number of different formats: faxed order forms; scanned spreadsheets; or even individual emails. All in all a very confusing and time-consuming process for the venue.
Preoday’s Group Booking solution cuts through the confusion and reduces administration time to a bare minimum, allowing managers and front-line staff to spend more time delivering exceptional service to customers.
At the heart of the service is an online ordering platform which enables venues to set up menus for booked tables and for guests (or event organisers) to pre-order menu choices before an agreed deadline, ahead of the meal. Thanks to its market leading user interface, venues can create menus with as many courses as they want, including dishes with single or multiple modifiers, as well as global or individual menu pricing.
Venues can monitor orders for each event in real time. For event organisers, there are many benefits, not least of which is the consolidation of orders on a single online platform; providing a complete audit trail of who has ordered what, and when each order was placed. Having information like this provides invaluable procurement and waste management oversight to organisers, and helps identify which guests need to place orders before the cut off deadline.
For Christmas 2016, the Preoday Group Booking system has been integrated exclusively with the leading online restaurant bookings system ResDiary. This means that venues will be able to link their online reservations with group booking pre-orders for an holistic control process for managing one of the busiest periods in the business calendar for the hospitality sector.
The Preoday Group Booking system, however, is not just for Christmas! It is also used by venues for any large scale catering event including weddings and other social or business occasions that take place throughout the year.
It’s not as catchy as: ‘When is a door not a door?’ (answer, when it’s a jar) but it speaks to the idea that in-car collection, and the technologies that support it, are flexible enough to bend to the needs of a business and its guests.
Delivery can be daunting to the uninitiated, and it might be tempting to sign up with a third-party ordering aggregator that offers the service, such as UberEats, but other options could suit your business and brand better. Here we present three different ‘levels’ of delivery, starting with the most basic – and cheapest method: doing it yourself.
