TLC Inns secures £1m of new funding with Barclays Corporate: Award-winning pub and restaurant operator TLC Inns, led by Steve and Jo Haslam, has secured a further £1m of funding with Barclays Corporate to aid the expansion of its Grand Central bar and grill brand.
Steve Haslam said: “We are currently in negotiations for 6,000 sq ft of space in Chelmsford and have two other sites on our radar. Having achieved our highest ever level of Ebitda in quarter one and undergone our biggest ever expansion period, we are now fully committed to further expanding the Grand Central brand.”
“After 18 months of new openings, we have also refreshed all sites and are currently undergoing a root and branch assessment of our costs. This has led to some amazing results already with a 30% reduction in waste costs. We continue to look at all areas including utilities. Our whole estate now operates on low energy bulbs and waterless urinals, which are saving thousands of pounds. We are conscious of energy costs within our kitchens and have signed with Synergy grills to supply our estate with their new innovative grills.”
“With a 40% energy saving on the most expensive piece of kit in the kitchen to run, this was an easy decision to make, coupled with the food being a far better product to the plate, lower maintenance and cleaning, it will revolutionise our current grill system.”
“Once our assessment is finished and all areas implemented, we expect savings in the region of £100,000 and this will not lead to a single customer-facing cut, but improvements to our efficiency, leaving us in a position to actually invest further in the customer experience.”
We’ve just undertaken an exercise where we’ve compared the latest Blue Seal 600mm and 900mm chargrills against the Synergy SG630 and Synergy SG900! Well what a difference……
Did you know that the Blue Seal G594LS (600mm wide) is rated at 19.6Kw/H whereas the Synergy SG630 is only rated at 5.7Kw/H with absolutely no loss of power! In fact because of it’s built in technology, the Synergy Grill is hotter and cooks quicker. We’ve conducted an exercise where we have compared the gas usage based on the above kilowattage of each chargrill using the cost of gas at 4p per kilowatt over a period of 10 hours per day, 360 days per year and the total cost saving over five years is a massive £9,600!! To be honest gas is probably more expensive than that and if you know your particular gas cost we can work out your own personal cash savings.
We’ve also carried out the same exercise comparing the Blue Seal G596LS (900mm wide) with the Synergy SG900 and the gas savings are a huge £11,960 based on the same parameters as above. Again we can tailor your own personal savings if you give us your gas cost. Suffice to say that the Blue Seal G596LS is rated at 29.4Kw/H whereas the Synergy SG900 is rated at 11.4Kw/H – enough said we think!
We’ve been around long enough to know that gas and cost savings aren’t the be all and end all for some restaurateurs. Different benefits appeal to different sites and often it’s the taste and quality of the product, the ease of cleaning the grill, the decrease of black smoke in to the ventilation and the ease of operation which are most important……..Synergy Grill ticks all these boxes AND saves you £1,000′s.
These gas usage facts do not lie aswell as the fact that the Synergy Grill doesn’t have a fat tray and the cleaning regime takes roughly 10 minutes per day.
As for the quality of the product we’re actually on site conducting a demonstration of our grill against a Blue Seal as I write this and the burger cooked off the Blue Seal has decreased in size and lacks moisture whereas the burger cooked off the Synergy Grill is still the same size and is moist and juicy. The customer is very impressed and we think you will be too – just give us a call and we’ll have a chat…
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