Episode 34 : Dead Square Metres

Before your room is an experience, it's a machine — with capacity, flow, bottlenecks, and dead square metres quietly costing you money every service. This episode introduces the three- question capacity check: your seat-to-square-metre ratio, your turn rate per section, and where service consistently breaks down. Because the room you have isn't the room you & re using —and the gap between them is often where the easiest gains in your business are sitting.

This episode's actions:

1. Pull a floor plan of your venue and mark your highest-revenue, lowest-revenue, and slowest-service tables across the last quarter.

2. Calculate your seat-to-square-metre ratio and compare it against your service style.

3. Watch a peak service from a fixed corner for fifteen minutes and note every bottleneck you see.

Space is one of the eight ingredients we use to assess venue health. If a structured look at how hard your room is working sounds useful, reach out to us via the email below.

Next episode: where space either supports or sabotages your service — the line between front of house and back of house.

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