The Most Effective Maintenance Service Package for Retail and Hospitality
Whether you are a retailer or hospitality venue, maximising value form every aspect of your business has never been more vital. Protect Plus is a maintenance service which helps you attract more customers and keep them whilst staying compliant with safety regulations – for less.
The Pressure to Keep Your Costs Down
For retail and hospitality, fighting the tide of ever-increasing costs in challenging market conditions are placing them under a lot of stress. Your future survival will rely on how you can find new business while keeping your overheads down.
This however is not a new situation. You may well have already removed significant costs but you have to find yet more. This is when you have to make choices around important services to your business, and this carries the risk of impacting on your operations, resulting in increased costs in the process.
At first glance you may believe you can save money by scaling back property maintenance. Reducing visits or raising the bar to only allow repairs to critical problems may appear to be a simple way to reduce your maintenance budget. However, this can have serious implications.
Why Reactive Maintenance is not Cost Effective
Adopting a reactive maintenance approach can have some attractions at first glance. But the loss of proactive control over your locations can have unforeseen consequences.
Leaving Problems Until It Is Too Late
Delaying repairs is not just a temporary cost saving – it results in bigger costs later. When simple problems are allowed to continue, their impact can become more serious, resulting in larger bills later.
Protect Plus
With Protect Plus, your maintenance is prioritised according to severity and impact. Meaning repairs are completed before they can become more serious issues and keeping costs down.
Single Issues Become More Complex
A leaking roof can cause damp and impact on other fixtures and fittings. Meaning a simple job of fixing tiles or guttering can turn into plastering, re-wiring, and frontage repairs. And this means longer timescales to solve problems that could have been completed far faster if co-ordinated sooner.
Protect Plus doesn’t just look at the issue; it uses an intelligence approach to your repairs. Where issues can have knock-on effects, Protect Plus looks at how these can be minimised or removed entirely. For any issues where multiple trades will need to be involved, Protect Plus sources the best placed trades people to handle them. Making repairs faster to complete, longer lasting, and more cost-effective.
Disruption To Your Business
Adopting a reactive approach, or leaving problems until they become serious, removes your ability to have repairs done when convenient to your business. It can impact on opening times, close spaces or services for your customers, resulting in lower revenues and loss of customer goodwill.
Because Protect Plus looks at your entire maintenance needs from the start, most repairs can be foreseen and diarised to help you provide your normal services to your customers.
The Risk of Non-Compliance
Just as with maintenance, you might think about how to reduce the costs around keeping your locations legally compliant with fire and safety regulations. For example, you might think about reducing inspections or resolve issues closer to mandatory visits. In practice however this will simply place locations at greater risk of damage from other faults or issues building up, reducing safety for your customers and staff, and placing locations in danger of being shut down. There is also the upcoming harmonisation with EU regulations, which the UK Government have decided the onus will be on you to monitor when these will come into effect and implement when required.
With Protect Plus, all your current and future regulatory compliance needs are addressed. From monitoring for new and changed legislation, to undertaking checks and inspections, your locations will be kept compliant and all certifications updated – and all undertaken in the most cost-effective manner possible.
Protect Plus: The Perfect Solution for Your Maintenance Needs
Bringing your retail or hospitality locations under Protect Plus is the biggest benefit you can deliver to your business. With Protect Plus you are making an investment into how you can maximise your efforts to promote your brand, derive true long-term savings over other, less efficient approaches to maintenance, and ensure you can deliver the very best customer experience possible.
Discover more about Protect Plus today. Contact us and start the discussion on how you can enjoy maintenance services which truly work for you.
