Tips On Opening A Food Court Business To Always Be Crowded With Customers

Illustration of food court (Unsplash/Adrien Olichon)

YOGYAKARTA - Culinary businesses are indeed a promising business and never die. But not only selling food, there are other business ideas in the culinary field that are also very profitable. You can try the food court business.

The food court business is a business with the concept of providing a place for various food sellers. This business is suitable for those of you who own sufficient land. You can use the land to rent out booths to culinary entrepreneurs.

Usually the food court business is in a crowd center, shopping centers, office areas, schools, and others. Food court is visited by many people who want to hunt food. Many people come to food court with friends or family to enjoy dishes in crowded nuances.

Seeing this phenomenon, of course the food court business has good prospects. Especially considering that food is a basic human need. How has there been an outlook to utilize your land or room for the food court?

There are some tips or ways to start the food court business. Here are tips that you must apply so that your food court business sells well and produces big profits.

The first thing you have to pay attention to before starting a food court business is its location. You have to choose a strategic location or easy to access. That way, your food court will be more crowded with visitors. That's why food courts are usually in shopping centers, office areas, and schools.

But you can also choose a food court location that is not in the center of the crowd, as above. The important thing is that your food court is located in an easy-to-access location. Don't forget to also make sure your capacity is adequate for many people. Also pay attention to your parking lot, try to be quite extensive and don't bother visitors who come.

Next you need to prepare a place to sell your prospective food court tenants. You need to prepare a outlet or booth for culinary business owners. You can create a booth with the right and attractive design. That way your food court will invite people's appetite.

Don't forget to also provide sufficient size by considering some of the needs of the booth tenants. You need to prepare enough booths for the food processing area, cashier area, to clean it up.

You need to provide tables and chairs for customers' seats in your food court. Because the room is open and has a lively nuance, you need to provide a sufficient number of tables and curves.

You also need to set a table and chair layout. Flat it up with the right design, not too close and don't go too far. Don't forget to also choose a table and chair with good quality.

The next step you have to pay attention to when you want the food court business is to provide supporting facilities. You need to provide toilets and places of worship because these two facilities are urgently needed by customers.

If your food court has an indoor concept, you need to put up an air conditioner (AC) so that the room feels comfortable and cool. You also need to provide WiFi so that customers can feel at home because of internet access. You can also add play areas for children.

Before starting the food court business, make sure you have compiled the operational system. You can provide your outlets with a rental system or profit sharing. For the rental system, you must determine the rental price that must be paid by the culinary business owner. The payment system can be every month or annually.

While the profit-sharing system can be applied by dividing the percentage of the turnover. For example, you create a profit-sharing system of 10-20% of the income earned by the shop owner. However, the weakness of this system is uncertain income.

The step you must take when opening food courts in today's era is to provide a digital payment system. Now people already prefer to pay non- tuna or cashlessly rather than having to spend money. Moreover, non-cash payments can be made easily only via cellphone.

You need to provide digital payments so that customers can transact using a digital wallet. Make sure you use a trusted payment system. Not to forget, you also have to provide cash registers, QR machines, and EDCs to support digital payments.

Those are a number of tips for starting a food court business so that it can run successfully. The food court business can run smoothly if you know how to manage it. Remember, in a food court business you need to prioritize the convenience of sellers and buyers.

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