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Its possible to generate those kind of numbers, but requires some serious focus, something I would guess most of us in the bike industry don't really have, hence why we are in this game.
If their metric's are being calculated/looked at by someone not in the bike industry they'll see the bad days/weeks/months and then start worrying and cutting staffing/wages, not realizing its pretty damn normal to be all over the place, not the kind of industry for reliable/consistent revenue generation, its properly swings and roundabouts.
My best month for the last 5 years has been a totally different month in a different quarter each year. Only logic I can apply is its when the highest number of "all season commuters " bring all their rusty scrap in it and it needs everything replaced instantly money no object kind of a job, 50x of them back to back.
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Workshop should be able to return a consistent performance, the issues largely is supply issues due to not being in the EU (and staff, most of them were European and forced out by the Tory).
You’d need to raise the labour cost a bit, turn in at least 5k in labour alone/weeks, doable but like you said, need a lots of focus.
Be nice for bike shop not to pay VAT etc. on account of actually helping to fight climate changes
Yeah their mechanic wages are insanely too good to be true (35k for workshop manager), I’m guessing they ran out of steam and realised they aren’t making that much.