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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
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In terms of labour yes, but parts and margins not so much. Worked for one large company that basically suggested unless we push the junk parts with the highest margins (because they are junk, £0.50p brake pads being put on folks bills for £6-7 a time, and the fact they are junk so just dissolve within 50 miles) to keep the parts margins super high for every single week of the year, we are all out of a job, as for some reason parts was a key metric for them.
Fact I didn't stay working for them long, and the several that followed me stayed even shorter amount of time might have been the hint they were cunts, but to this day they still do it, and somehow still have a good rep bizarrely.
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Huge exodus of European mates has been insane the last few years, pretty much the last of the last of them have left this year.
Been to a few touristy parts of the UK the last month, and every single town/village/tourist trap location is absolutely on its knee's, operating on less than minimum staffing, or just full on closed down, as the remaining staff could just not operate the business (cafe/pub/hotel/b+b/attractions) on their own without pushing them over the edge. Various reasons , but the exodus of good workers has been a large part of it.
Most tourists can't understand it and try to blame everyone but themselves (for voting tory over and over again), but then most of them look quite gammon so probably a waste of time trying to argue with them.
BrickMan
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.