Grab & go food markets offer a timely, on-trend, opportunity to profit for your hotel, resort, or retail food store. However, the potential success of a grab & go food marketplace is heavily tied to successful planning, retail strategy, optimal use of space, and profitable product assortment. In the design world, many designers request a "creative brief" to summarize and create a framework guide the design process. In the same way, we have outlined a simple process to define and outline your initial store vision. Many more important questions and answers will sprout from this process and a list of action items and special projects will be required to move from concept to reality. We highly suggest engaging retail expertise, a designer, architect, equipment or food suppliers and of course, your food and beverage leadership team in the process to fill in the details and offer advice to optimize space for sales performance. |
STEP 1: DETERMINE YOUR RETAIL STRATEGY |
STEP 3: CREATE A DRAFT STORE LAYOUT |
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Use this process to get started and point your project in the right direction. Read through our upcoming posts to learn 4 steps to build a grab & go market vision. These steps will help you more clearly communicate your service & operations plan, merchandising approach, equipment needs. While much more work is to be done.