Eating at a buffet restaurant is fun, especially during the month of Ramadan. Just take as much food as you want and then you can add food until full.
But have you ever wondered, how can a buffet restaurant make a profit? In this article, the author will share how a buffet restaurant earns its income.
If you often visit the buffet restaurant, be sure to know about its fun. You pay a certain amount of price according to the head and you can take whatever food and drink you want. Fortunately, desserts such as ice cream are also available by some buffet restaurants.
This buffet restaurant originally dates back to the 1970s-1980s era and was popular at the time.
Most of these buffet restaurants specialize in one type of food concept such as Korean food, Japanese food or Western food.
If in the month of Ramadan, of course, people will prefer to visit a five star hotel as in situ, a variety of foods you can try, ranging from French cuisine to foreign cuisine.
One of the factors buffet restaurants can generate profits is that they do not need a large staff to serve customers.
The buffet restaurant adopts a self -service concept, so it is the customers themselves who will pick up the food and bring it to the table. From there, the restaurant can reduce the cost of paying the restaurant waiter.
The buffet restaurant also uses a subtle strategy. If you notice, try noticing the arrangement of food in the buffet restaurant.
At the front, they will put carbohydrate and cheap foods like fried rice as well as fried noodles. This food is among the foods that will be served at the front to attract customers to take the food.
Expensive foods such as lamb, crab or shrimp are often placed in the back. When you get to this part of the food, it could be that your plate is already full of side dishes and you intend to come back to pick up the food after emptying your plate.
However, the opposite can happen. You are probably full of fried rice or fried noodles just now, so you forget the intention to take expensive food.
In addition, the buffet restaurant also provides small plates to not 'allow' customers to consume food in large quantities.
They will also provide large drinking glasses, so that customers will tend to drink a lot of water while eating, thus making customers easily satiated.
Buffet restaurants will use the stated strategies to ensure they do not incur losses. Restaurants will also often serve low quality food to cover costs.
Between 1998 and 2017, buffet restaurants experienced a decline of 26% although the number of buffet restaurants increased by 22%.
Among the reasons for the decline of these buffet restaurants is the development of restaurants that provide the service of waiters who come to the customer’s table to take food orders.
To this day, buffet restaurants are everywhere and various methods need to be done by them to ensure that they do not suffer losses and achieve the same goal of attracting many customers.
