How to Make Your Coffee Shop More Health-Conscious

In today’s world, it’s important for businesses of all kinds to show their commitment to the health and wellness of their customers. This charge extends to coffee shops, especially considering the extended amounts of time that some people spend relaxing and enjoying time with friends within the walls of welcoming coffee shops like yours. Therefore, it’s important to take steps to reduce the risk of disease transmission so that your customers know that they are safe. To get you started on this challenging process, here are a few tips to help make your coffee shop more health-conscious.

Give Some Space

The small size of many coffee shop buildings means that tables are often quite close to one another. To help protect your customers, though, it’s important to move the tables an acceptable distance apart, even though that will reduce your capacity. To help accommodate these changes, you can move some tables outside or even look into procuring a larger building.

Know How to Clean

As much as possible, your coffee shop should be a germ-free zone. One way to make this happen is to practice thorough cleaning of your entire facility. To ensure you don’t miss any spots in your building, you can utilize cleanable restaurant ceiling tiles to allow for cleaning of your ceiling in addition to the other areas around your building. This will help prevent a buildup of germs and make the ceiling easier to clean when there are splatters of coffee or grease.

Use Barriers

Part of the appeal of coffee shops is the personal interactions between baristas and guests. Unfortunately, these personal interactions make it far too easy to spread germs from person to person. To help overcome this issue and still allow for a personal touch, you can install clear plastic barriers at all counters to prevent germs from being transmitted when people are talking to one another. This ensures that people can still see and hear one another, even while they’re being protected from germs.

Install Signage

Sometimes, to use healthy practices, all people need is a gentle reminder. One easy way to do this is to install signs throughout your facility with different tips for maintaining proper social distancing, practicing good hygiene, and other important habits. With these signs in place, it’s less likely that you’ll have to personally correct your customers, which can be a difficult and awkward interaction.

See What Works

You may have great plans for keeping your employees and customers healthy. However, there are some plans that don’t work in the real world, no matter how well-intentioned they are. Therefore, as your business continues to pick up, it’s important to observe what happens to see which plans are working and which ones need to be tweaked. By changing what you do as time goes by, you’ll be able to keep everything running smoothly.

Brooke Chaplan is a freelance writer and blogger. She lives and works out of her home in Los Lunas, New Mexico. She loves the outdoors and spends most of her time hiking, biking, and gardening.

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