Spread the word and keeping coming back
We’re down overall on takings but online sales are up eightfold, and 35% of those are from new customers. We’ve given the store and coffee shop a lick of paint and now as we reopen for appointments and take-aways, we need to keep up the positivity.Locals have told us they’re desperate to come in, and we're looking forward to holiday-makers too, when they can. We now have an appointment system, with a maximum of two people at a time.
We couldn’t have chosen a worse time to open! The builders began the fit-out a week before lockdown, but it took 11 weeks rather than the planned five and things went over budget. We had our base-line outgoings – electricity bills, services charges, rent, business levies – and we weren’t eligible for the government support. We opened a few weeks ago for a soft launch just doing take-away coffees. The builders hadn’t finished and the city centre was deserted but we went for it.
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