Glides are the holy grail for hotels
On this page, we’ll dive deeper into the specifics of why this is true.
3 reasons why glides are the holy grail for hotels
There’s zero unit costs.
100% profit margin.
Hotel staff workload is minimal.
In an alternate universe, you could imagine glides being sold the old fashion way. At a wholesale price. with each hotel being responsible for buying and then “flipping” drink sales for a profit.
That is what 99% of products do.
But here’s some of the negative consequences that comes with that:
Purchases happen frequently and take money out of a hotel’s budget on a regular basis.
Inventory management, e.g. when to buy, falls on the shoulders of hotel management.
Making accurate predictions about what drinks will sell, also falls on hotel management.
In other words, the typical wholesale flipping model forces hotel staff to act more like convenience store owners instead of hoteliers.
Taking their energy, focus, and resources away from their core business.
There’s zero unit costs.
With glides, it’s much better.
Because glides are tech-enabled and reusable, we can utilize a revenue-sharing model, something that’s previously only been possible with software products, such as YouTube.
Instead of the hotel purchasing every unit, Vital delivers pre-filled glides for free.
With glides advanced sensors, inventory and consumption data is tracked in real-time.
This makes every delivery work like magic.
Vital knows in real-time when to make the delivery and how many units a hotel needs.
Vital optimizes the selection of each delivery to maximize drink sales, based on that specific hotel’s guests consumption behavior.
All of this happens automatically, without requiring the hotel staff to prompt the delivery. Again, like magic.
With each delivery, Vital picks up the empty units as well.
It’s not just about protecting a hotel’s budget, it’s about protecting their time.
Because hotels don’t pay for each unit, every dollar earned from drink sales is net profit.
This means that glides are the only physical product in the world that delivers 100% profit margins.
A typical hotel can expect to increase GOPPAR by 5% - 15% with glides.
100% profit margin.
Most products add to a hotel’s workload. But not glides.
Glides are a rare product because they minimize the workload on staff operations, in some cases even reducing it.
To illustrate, let’s start with a typical upkeep process. Looking at more common products, like k-cups or water bottles, these items require housekeeping to manually check every occupied room, every day, to get a status update on the inventory.
This process is highly repetitive, tiring, and prone to human error.
With something like a mini bar, this process is even more painful. In fact, the upkeep requirements of a mini bar is one of the biggest reasons why more and more hotels are getting rid of their mini bars.
Hotel staff workload is minimal.
Again, using the power of technology, glides have solved this problem.
The advanced sensors in every glide know in real-time when it becomes empty.
When a glide becomes empty, it sends an email to hotel staff, telling them exactly which unit is empty and which room its in.
“Beach Lemonade glide in Room 137 is empty. Replace it with a Pura glide A.S.A.P”
From there, housekeeping simply swaps out the glide.
No guesswork, all precision, keeping operations efficient.
Additionally, we’ve built a mobile app for hotel management to easily keep an eye on the status of each glide. It’s an all-in-one dashboard displaying the glide inventory as well as drink sales.
In total, there’s really only 2 things a hotel must do to operate glides.
Once an empty alert is received, swap out the glides.
Store extra glides in a back room.
That is it!
So long as a hotel can manage those 2 responsibilities, they can fully embrace all the benefits of glides.
In conclusion, glides are truly the holy grail for hotels.
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