Introducing Roseacre Pub Company
Collection of 9 pubs across the midlands
Premium pubs and restaurants serving high quality food and drink
Founded in 2014
Celebrating 10th anniversary in 2024
“When we were looking for a new till provider, we were looking for a POS provider that had everything under one umbrella. We were looking for slick POS tills that could support with high volume, integrated card machines, a cash management system, e-commerce improvement and CRM data collection systems”Ash Gartshore, Owner, Roseacre Pub Company
The business challenge
With an aim of delivering an excellent food and drink offering, accompanied by friendly, caring service across their collection of 9 pubs, the Roseacre Pub Company team sought out a technology partner that could help them achieve this consistently across each of their pubs, and deliver the best value to their customers.
The business was also experiencing a period of growth, with more pubs coming into the fold and plans for additional sites across the next few years, meaning choosing a provider that could support them as they scaled, easily incorporating new sites into the estate was vital.
The Roseacre team were also looking for a provider that could offer multiple connected systems under one umbrella to help them better join up operations, streamline cash management, consolidate reporting and better understand their customers across their entire estate to reduce admin and drive revenue.
“Zonal is so easy to use on a day-to-day basis, and the back office platform is really intuitive to use. It actually allows sites to be more independent, and there’s other members of the head office team now who can support day-to-day. It’s really empowered them to progress their careers.”Andy Griffin, Head of Systems, Roseacre Pub Company
The solution
With these criteria in mind, the team at Roseacre Pub Company did their research and chose Zonal as their technology provider, working together to complete a phased implementation across their 9 pubs, managed carefully by our dedicated onboarding team.
Since making the switch day-to-day operations have been simplified across Roseacre’s estate of pubs – especially in relation to cashing up. Detailed, real-time reporting is available across the business to help resolve any queries that may arise, giving the team the tools to dig into the detail easily and make more effective decisions, quicker.
Utilising the data collected in their EPoS, the Roseacre team are also able to refine elements of their offering to drive additional revenue; analysing individual performance of products and ingredients, as well as products that are commonly purchased alongside these dishes, allowing them to tweak their menus and recommend upsells throughout the ordering journey.
Having intuitive, easy-to-use technology in place has allowed different sites within the business to operate more independently, as well as enabled more members of their head office team to progress their careers and upskill by supporting in more areas of the day-to-day operations of their pubs.
- Industry-leading EPoS for pubs, complete with a powerful stock management solution as standard
- Zonal’s online guest ordering solution Order & Pay, fully integrated with our EPoS, enabling customers to order and pay for food and drink from the comfort of their own table
“It’s important to me that Roseacre always grows, but growth doesn’t always mean more sites. It means growth in technology, growth in engagement and growth in our people. There will be more sites in 2024 and 2025, and I look forward to working closely with Zonal to support that growth.”Ash Gartshore, Owner, Roseacre Pub Company
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Introducing Shorefield Holidays
Family-run business
Established 1958
Award-winning holiday park operator
Collection of 9 parks across Dorset & Hampshire
“While we were looking for a new technology solution, we were looking for something that would be more integrated across the board, a cost saving for us as a business, and be able to take us to the next step.”Ryan Swatridge, Group Entertainments Manager, Shorefield Holidays
The business challenge
With a drive to deliver unforgettable experiences for their guests, owners and residents; as well as to join up their technology across their parks to deliver better integration and facilitate cost savings, Shorefield Holidays began the search for a technology partner that could help take them to the next level.
They needed a technology partner that would help them grow and expand, as well as deliver live, day-to-day insight over areas such as stock levels to enable more effective decision-making, something they were lacking at the time. The Shorefield team also wanted to be able to better understand their guests, including spending patterns, so technology that provided easy-to-digest and detailed reporting on how guests were engaging with the business was vital.
The system needed to be hospitality-dedicated, and ultimately make life easier for their guests and staff.
“Technology is a huge part of our business, from the iServes to the app, the loyalty, we massively embraced what Zonal brought to us. We’re just looking at different ways we can bring technology to what we do, we even have robots in our restaurant that will serve you your dinner.”Ryan Swatridge, Group Entertainments Manager, Shorefield Holidays
The solution
With a set of requirements and criteria in mind, the Shorefield team began researching different technology suppliers, as well as what their competitors were doing, and as a result chose to work with Zonal to implement a suite of connected hospitality technology across their parks to meet their business’s objectives.
With Zonal’s industry-leading EPoS at the core of their restaurants, the Shorefield team have since benefitted from real-time, accurate stock monitoring via Zonal’s built-in stock management module, enabling them to reduce costs on external stock counts. Zonal’s handheld EPoS ordering solution for staff, iServe, was also implemented, enabling staff to take orders at the tableside and automatically sending these through for fulfilment helping to improve guest experiences through speedier service and eliminating any room for errors, whilst providing significant time savings for staff by removing the need for orders to be re-keyed.
Alongside Zonal’s EPoS, the Shorefield team also chose to implement our purchase-to-pay inventory management solution, Acquire. With an end-to-end purchasing platform in place, fully integrated with their EPoS, the team have transformed their inventory management, enabling them to manage all of their suppliers and purchasing in one central platform, as well as reducing staff overhead by eliminating the need for their team to spend hours logging delivery notes and invoices.
“The difference is night and day; the money it’s saving us in not running multiple different platforms, and time it’s saving the team, and the fact that it’s just modernised us as a business.”Chris Weymouth, Assistant Complex Manager – Oakdene Forest Park, Shorefield Holidays
To further enhance their guest experience, Shorefield implemented Zonal’s Order & Pay app across their estate of holiday parks. Zonal worked with both the Shorefield operations and marketing teams to develop their app into exactly what they wanted it to be, including delivery to location functionality to enable guests to place orders for delivery to their accommodation – providing guests with convenience and flexibility.
All the functionality is backed up by Zonal’s robust suite of reporting. With Zonal’s integrated tech in place, the Shorefield team are able to drill down into more detail than ever, including a granular view of GP margins for every recipe item, helping them to expose any inefficiencies or fluctuations, and react accordingly.
- Industry-leading EPoS for holiday parks, complete with a robust stock management solution and real-time data capture
- Handheld ordering devices for staff to speed up service times and reduce room for error
- A fully-integrated purchase-to-pay solution, enabling the Shorefield team to centralise purchasing and supplier management, reducing costs and saving staff time
- A branded, feature-rich customer app, fully-integrated with their EPoS, to give guests more control over their dining experience during their stay, complete with deliver to location functionality to enable delivery straight to their cabins
- Robust, detailed reporting across their entire technology ecosystem, providing the necessary insight to help the Shorefield team to make more effective decisions
“You can see on the sales and profitability reports the GP margins for every recipe item, which means you can really expose any small problems you’re having with the fluctuation of figures. It gives you the ability to push that GP as much as you can.”Chris Weymouth, Assistant Complex Manager – Oakdene Forest Park, Shorefield Holidays
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Fixing people's hospitality bugbears
What are consumers' top frustrations in hospitality, and how can hospitality operators address them? Find out in this exclusive consumer research report in partnership with CGA by NIQ
Our previous GO Technology research revealed that hospitality still plays an important role in people’s social lives despite cost pressures, but with 49% of consumers saying they’d become less loyal to a brand after a few bad experiences, it’s incredibly important for hospitality businesses to deliver frictionless experiences that meet guests’ expectations, without any frustration during the journey.
This exclusive research of 5,000 hospitality consumers reveals the biggest frustrations guests encounter when engaging with venues, both in-venue and pre-visit, how these frustrations differ between demographics, and what actions they are likely to take following a frustrating experience.
What's in the report?
- Top 5 biggest bugbears
- Frustrations by stage in the customer journey
- How do these frustrations differ between demographics?
- Where and when consumers vent their frustrations about their hospitality experiences
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What makes people loyal to hospitality and how venues can maintain their loyalty
Discover the top reasons consumers choose to go out, the role hospitality plays in local communities, and what hospitality businesses can do to build and maintain customer loyalty in this blog – based on the findings from our recent ‘GO Technology: The value of hospitality’ research!
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Explore our virtual venues through the eyes of your customers
Visit our virtual pub, restaurant and hotel to discover how Zonal’s ecosystem of hospitality technology works behind the scenes to provide you with the intelligence and insights you need to improve customer experiences, boost loyalty, and drive revenue.
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Hospitality Tech Assessment: Improving the guest experience & driving loyalty
Answer a few short questions to identify how well your tech helps you to deliver incredible guest experiences that keep your customers coming back time and time again. At the end you’ll get personalised guidance which explains how you can leverage your customer data to offer personalised customer experiences.
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Making the business case to Finance for hospitality technology
Learn more about how specialist hospitality technology can benefit wider stakeholders in your business, such as finance
As an operator working day-in, day-out with your front- and back-of-house teams, you may already be acutely aware of the tangible benefits your technology can offer to your business. However, it can be difficult to “sell” those benefits across for stakeholders within the business that may not be direct users of the technology on a daily basis.
In this guide, we explore how hospitality technology can also meet the needs of your finance team, how the operational improvements it brings can have a positive impact on the wider business, as well as how it can help to deliver more accurate, data-driven insights that facilitate better decision-making to drive the business forward.
Download this guide to discover:
- The benefits of hospitality technology to your wider business
- What key areas will your Finance team consider when implementing new hospitality tech?
- How specialist hospitality technology can meet your head of Finance’s priorities
- How to address any concerns they may have around integration and implementation
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Guide: Transform your hotel's back-of-house operations with hospitality tech
Discover how a suite of connected hospitality technology can help build an efficient back-of-house operation in your hotel
With cutting costs and maximising margins front-of-mind for many hoteliers, ensuring you have the right technology in place to collect, capture and report on operational data from your bar & restaurant is integral to making better, more informed decisions.
Discover how specialist hospitality technology can transform your hotel’s back-of-house F&B operations, from automated and streamlined processes that result in frictionless experiences for guests, to real-time, reliable data collected at every touchpoint within the restaurant that increases reporting accuracy for stock management and business performance to help you cut costs and boost profits.
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- The benefits of specialist hospitality technology in hotels
- How centralised product management improves control
- How stock & ordering technology can help you manage costs and reduce waste
- The role of accurate data in improving back-of-house operations
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Hospitality Tech Assessment: Improving the guest experience & driving loyalty
Answer a few short questions to identify how well your tech helps you to deliver incredible guest experiences that keep your customers coming back time and time again. At the end you’ll get personalised guidance which explains how you can leverage your customer data to offer personalised customer experiences.
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As crucial technology in the first stage in the customer journey, we understand the importance of keeping your booking system up- to- date to ensure every cover is maximised, guest experience is seamless and business booms!
It’s easy to forget a task when it only needs to be completed once a year, but this can lead to important updates being overlooked, and will ultimately result in you not getting the most out of your booking system.
We’ve listed five areas within your booking system that we believe should be regularly checked and maintained to help you maximise capacity:
1. Make sure your email templates are polished and optimised
Your correspondence with guests matters, and with changes frequently being made by different users, it’s worth taking the time to regularly make sure your email templates are not only visually appealing, but also accurately reflect your brand. After making any changes, such as key date closures, adding special instructions or opening up additional seating for the summer, we’d recommend creating a test booking as if you were a guest making a reservation. This helps you to make sure guests are receiving the right information.
2. Monitor turn times
Monitoring and updating turn times is crucial for smooth operations. With accurate data, you can maintain optimal table turnovers and minimise wait times for customers, helping you manage your bookings effectively, improve guest experiences, and maximise revenue from every cover.
Zonal’s Table Management solution allows users to export turn times based on several factors, to build an accurate picture of current performance. You can then adjust booking durations accordingly, for example if your dwell time is set to be extremely high, reducing it down to a more realistic value can open up additional availability and increase yield.
3. Stay on top of opening/holiday hours and table layouts
Updating layouts or creating new ones for key dates in your booking system is essential for optimising seating arrangements. Tailoring layouts to accommodate increased demand during special occasions or holidays helps maximise capacity, reduce wait times and enhance overall dining experience for customers.
4. Consider additional booking channels…
Don’t overlook the various additional channels available to drive online bookings. An online offering reduces in house costs and having an easy journey can deliver a great journey for the end user.
Reserve with Google, Facebook and Instagram from Mozrest enables you to convert Google searches, Facebook and Instagram followers into bookings, by adding a simple ‘book now’ button to your business listing, allowing you tap in to more potential bookings and provide a more streamlined experience for guests.
In addition to online booking channels, there is also the ability to implement automated telephony systems. So that when a customer does wish to pick up the phone – the system can do it all for you. It’s not for everyone, but definitely worth looking into.
These come with an additional cost, however you’ll be picking up missed bookings that may otherwise have gone elsewhere and of course the time your team don’t have to spend on the phone completing what could have been achieved online is of great benefit.
5. Stay up-to-date with what’s new!
Zonal Bookings is constantly evolving with new features and functionality. Stay ahead by keeping track of these updates through our Product Portal. Planning is key when implementing changes, review your timelines – you probably don’t want to implement changes to ways of working at peak times or when support levels are low. To obtain good adoption, get buy in through testing. To see satisfaction, follow up and make the required tweaks and changes.
We’re here to help you make the most of your booking system. If you have any questions or need assistance with implementing new features, don’t hesitate to get in touch with our team.
If you have any further questions on any of the above functionality, or any of your other Zonal solutions, please don’t hesitate to get in touch!
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How can hospitality businesses combat no-shows in 2023?
In this webinar, industry experts from Zonal, Mitchells & Butlers, and Bums on Seats, explore the current bookings landscape, the impact of consumer loyalty on no-shows, the importance of real-time booking availability, and share their advice on processes and procedures operators can start implementing today to start tackling no-shows in their business.
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With Easter and the first bank holidays of the year just around the corner, it’s crucial to plan ahead to avoid any disruptions caused by limited supplier hours. To help you navigate this period smoothly, we’ve outlined five easy steps for Acquire users to create exception rules for delivery schedules, and set up reminders:
1. Log into Acquire Head Office and navigate to Admin Functions from the toolbar at the top of your screen, then select Delivery Schedules.
2. Once in Delivery Schedules, click on the Exceptions tab. From there, select the supplier you wish to add an exception for, followed by the green Create Exception button.
3. Give your Exception a descriptive name, we recommend including the supplier’s name and the exception day within the name of your Exception.
4. Next, you’ll need to enter date information for your Exception. Click the Green plus icon twice to add two date fields. In the top field, enter the date that you want the Exception to apply to, this is the only information you need to fill out on this date field. Make sure that you leave the “Delivers” box unticked. In the bottom date field, enter the new delivery date allocated for this period, ensuring the “Delivers” box is ticked, this will allow you to add an additional day outside of your normal schedule. Specify how many days in advance orders need to be placed and the cut-off time. If your Supplier will only allow one order to be placed per site prior to cut off time you will also need to select Limit Ordering, if the Supplier will allow multiple orders prior to cut off time, you will not need to select this.
5. Finally, click the green Assign Schedules button to open the Assign Delivery Schedules to an Exception page. Choose the delivery schedule for the exception by ticking the box and pressing ok. Your exception is now added to the chosen schedule.
You can view the changes to the schedule by selecting Preview Schedules. This will then display the delivery schedule calendar indicating the actual delivery date for the Exception.
By following these steps, you can configure delivery exceptions to ensure smooth operations during Easter and beyond. We hope these guidelines prove helpful in managing your Acquire solution effectively.
If you have any questions or need further assistance, please don’t hesitate to contact our team. We’re here to help you make the most of your Acquire system and ensure a seamless experience for your business.
If you have any further questions on any of the above functionality, or any of your other Zonal solutions, please don’t hesitate to get in touch!
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Serving Success: 10 Ways to reduce admin time using Zonal technology
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Serving Success: 10 Ways you can maximise your margins with Zonal's tech
The current economic headwinds have made protecting margins more essential to hospitality businesses than ever before, but the right technology, in the right place, can help operators both maintain profitability and create a more sustainable business for the future.
Zonal technology can be a vital tool in this drive. From better, more granular reporting, to digital stock checks, to recipe management, waste reduction and more, our systems can help maximise margins and deliver more revenue.
Here are 10 ways Zonal systems can help you be as profitable as possible:
1. Use real-time product sales and stock data to inform decisions
In today’s economic climate, no business can afford to have cash tied up in too much stock or to have items on the menu that just aren’t shifting. Integrated tech systems enable you to monitor the performance of the items you are selling right down to a product level, in real-time. This data will give you all the information you need to make informed decisions around pricing and ordering to boost margins and make potential savings on recipes or suppliers.
2. Analyse consumer spending patterns to plan more effectively
Fully integrated tech that can collate customer spend data from across all your different ordering channels makes reporting much easier, and allows you to more effectively plan staff and inventory requirements. This valuable data provides a view, not just of how your products are performing, but also insights such as what dates and times spend per head is at its highest, via which ordering channels, or the promotions that drive the most spending increases.
3. Reduce strain on staff and help them to be more productive
With recruitment, retention and the cost of staffing an ongoing challenge, any technology that eases the strain on teams whilst helping them achieve more will be an invaluable tool. Order and pay-at-table technology is already a preferred option for many customers and can do just that – taking part of the task performed by front-of-house teams and transferring it to customers. At the same time, mobile order and pay technology can actually increase consumer spend which means it can deliver increased yield from available capacity and a better bottom line.
4. Drive sales during quiet periods
Times when there are few bookings and little walk-in trade, can be turned into an opportunity for operators with the right technology. With systems that integrate your delivery and click & collect channels, you can increase order capacity on the fly during quieter periods – and decrease it at times when tables are full. This ensures you aren’t leaving any potential revenue on the table or in the takeaway bag, as well as maintaining productivity for the staff you have working.
5. Identify where wastage is happening
Waste of some kind is inevitable, but minimising it is key to maximising margins. One area to look for improvements is in order fulfilment – minimising how much of your stock is going to waste during this stage can provide sizeable savings. Technology that has been designed specifically for use in pubs, bars and restaurants can help here. Such tech enables you to identify exactly where wastage is happening during food preparation, so you can take action before the costs start to add up.
6. Eradicate common errors
Everybody makes mistakes and, while it’s impossible to completely eliminate the potential for errors (no matter how well designed the processes are), the right tech can help. Systems like ours enable you to track staff activity at all points, right down to a button-press level. This insight will help you identify common errors and any patterns of behaviour that may be causing issues, giving you the information you need to make improvements or to offer training to eliminate the issues.
7. Identify cost saving opportunities in the kitchen
By implementing a recipe management system that is integrated with your EPoS, you’ll have oversight of both sales and wastage data in one place. This will make it much simpler to spot cost-saving opportunities and make smarter, more informed decisions about menu options and pricing. This insight will also enable you to see sales trends as they emerge and to identify changing consumer patterns, helping you stay ahead of the market – and the competition.
8. Change pricing and promotions in real time across the business
A fully integrated tech stack draws product and pricing information from one central database. This means that any changes you make can be pushed out across the entire business in one go and with immediate effect. This ability to react in real-time, capitalising on any opportunities as they arise and addressing any challenges, will result in a more streamlined and agile business, and help you ensure you’re maintaining profitability as costs continue to fluctuate.
9. Automatically calculate real-time stock usage
Operators often have large amounts of cash tied up in stock, so making sure you’re on top of stock levels is vital. Technology that automatically updates stock usage in real-time, allows you to identify which items see lots of usage and which don’t, and keep stock levels optimised. Smart systems can even give you estimates of how many days your current stock will last based on current usage data, helping you streamline your ordering and ensuring you don’t run out of anything important or leave cash tied up in stock that might go to waste.
10. Ensure stock is always being ordered from the right suppliers, at the right price
Ordering stock from a number of suppliers, cross checking prices and delivery times is a huge drain on staff time and resources. Zonal’s end-to-end purchasing solution will allow your teams to manage approved suppliers within the system, including what products or ingredients they provide and at what price. This ensures staff are always ordering from the right supplier, at the right price and eliminating the possibility of incorrect ordering.
With our integrated technology working in the background to streamline processes, maximise efficiencies and minimise wastage, operators can be confident they have the systems in place to drive revenues and boost profits, even if the costs of doing business continue to rise.
Click here to take a quick 5-minute self-assessment to see how your current tech stacks up in the above areas!
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Whitepaper: Why data matters to small hospitality businesses
Discover the importance of data for hospitality businesses, and how it can be used to improve the customer journey and build loyalty
Data is an incredibly valuable tool for hospitality businesses. It can be used to improve any and every aspect of your business – grow margins, cut waste, streamline processes, acquire new customers, improve customer service and much, much more.
Nowhere, however, is data more valuable than when it comes to your customer journey. Data allows you to better understand your guests, helping you to remove their pain points, personalise their journey and create a more relevant experience which ultimately increases the likelihood they will become a loyal customer that returns again and again.
In this whitepaper, we explore the value data can bring to smaller hospitality businesses and how data can be used throughout the customer journey to improve experiences that keep guests coming back for more.
What's in the whitepaper?
- How to build a more detailed database of your customers
- Tips on using data to improve your customer journey
- The revenue-driving opportunities data can bring
- How data can be used to encourage loyalty and repeat visits
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Inside Intelligence: Navigating the world of data to help you scale
In this webinar, Jonathan Grant, Director of Technical Sales at Zonal and Susie Clark, Head of CRM at Ignite explore the importance of data and the ways in which data can be developed into key information which can ultimately benefit your customers and company through improving customer relationships and increasing revenue.
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Loyalty schemes in hospitality: What top CEOs think
Loyalty is currently a hot topic in the hospitality industry but there remains a lot of confusion. What do consumers mean when they say they are loyal to on-trade brands? Is it the same as for other retail brands? How can the sector create and maintain customer loyalty? Does it genuinely add value to the bottom line – or does it really just boil down to discounting? To answer these – and more – questions, we gathered eight of the industry’s top operators for a chat about all things loyalty.
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See our connected technology in action
It can be hard to visualise all the different ways connected technology can improve both operations and guest experiences, so we thought we’d show you instead. Click below to explore our connected solutions through the eyes of your customers in our virtual pub, restaurant and hotel, and discover the benefits of integrated hospitality technology at every stage of the customer journey.
