Open Air Business March 2017

FUNCTION VENUES
Zhev Liberson,
company director
Zipbar
01752 787422
www.stainlessfabs.com
How can your product benefit
function venue owners?
Zipbars are important for many venues.
They offer a system that is stylish,
can be packed into flight cases, is
easy and fast to set up with no tools,
and efficient for service. The fact it
is so easily portable means that the
manager of the venue can decide
where and when to deploy the bar to
gain maximum product sales.
What advice could you offer a function
venue owner on bars?
The bar sets the profile of your
business. The correct working platform
for your staff to serve the clientele from
is incredibly important. Any bar that
has the correct layout and has staff
that have been trained to serve in a
professional manner always does very
well. Training and lay out… both are
really important to success.
What is the USP of your product?
Our USP is practical design with style.
The fact you can pack a beautiful bar
away into small flight cases with the use
of no tools is a fundamental feature.
What options do you offer for small,
medium and large budgets?
With Zipbar you can purchase a 1x1.2m
‘starter’ bar, then increase your stock
of Zipbar as your business evolves.
Alternatively, hire and add to your own
Zipbar stock from other Zipbar stock
holders.
Tell us about a function venue where
your product is used
There are now many major venues
around the UK that use the Zipbar
range. These include the Mariot Hotel
Chain, 02 Arena, The Grand Hotel
Brighton, Zero Gravity Dubai, Kings
College, and 56 different major event
hire companies, as well as lots of
private bars and clubs and marquee
companies.
One Hotel bought a £5.5K system. I
delivered it on a Thursday and showed
them how to unpack, set up, clean
and repack it into its flight cases. The
manager was very happy with their
purchase. The next day was Friday. He
decided to set the bar up in the foyer.
It was near Christmas and the hotel
frontage is glass. The bar could be
clearly seen from the city street and it
took £4.5K on its first night.
Ross Blake, director
Cntnr
07802 835994
www.cntnr.co.uk
How can your product benefit function
venue owners?
We offer a turnkey solution for people
looking to create unique outdoor event
bars. Our shipping containers have a full
bar offer contained within allowing venue
owners to deal with just one supplier,
which is more efficient in terms of cost and
time.
What advice could you offer a function
venue owner on bars?
Often venues have space that isn’t being
utilised. We can help them create an
experience in spaces that are otherwise
overlooked.
What is the USP of your product?
It’s a turnkey solution. Everything required
to operate the bar is built inside the box
(shipping container). When the box arrives
on site it’s plug and play, so the set up/
installation time is very quick. The unit
itself is built to a very high specification
and there are a number of branding
opportunities, which often appeals to
brands looking to get exposure at events.
What options do you offer for small,
medium and large budgets?
We offer our units for dry hire as well as full
turnkey packages for clients looking for
full service hospitality where we take care
of everything from creative inception to
delivery and operations.
Tell us about a function venue where
your product has been used
We created a turnkey aprés ski themed bar
set for a client in Bristol over the winter,
which involved a full service of design,
build and operations for a two month
period.
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