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See which bookings and catering enquiries are going cold this week.

Sales management for a cafe means tracking bookings, catering enquiries and corporate orders in one place so nothing is forgotten between a WhatsApp message and a confirmed date. GullySales sets up this tracking and reviews it with you regularly.

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Scope, fee, reporting and term are agreed in writing after we have read your brief and spoken to you.

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What sales management means

Sales management is the ongoing work of reviewing a sales team's pipeline, calls and targets, and stepping in on deals that are stuck. GullySales sets the review rhythm and the reports a sales manager needs to run this without relying on gut feel.

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Where it usually goes wrong, and what we would do.

  • “A catering enquiry in a personal phone is a lost enquiry”

    When bookings and catering requests live across different staff members' phones, nobody can see which ones went cold without a follow-up.

  • “Weekend bookings need visibility days in advance”

    Tracking confirmed and pending bookings for the coming weekend lets the cafe chase the pending ones before the slot fills with a walk-in instead.

  • “Corporate accounts deserve their own view”

    An office that orders coffee for meetings regularly should be tracked as a repeat account, not treated as a one-off enquiry each time.

What we do

What we deliver for cafes and coffee shops.

Every deliverable, what it covers for you, and the result it is there to produce. Nothing here is an extra.

  1. Shared booking and enquiry tracker

    One record for bookings, catering requests and corporate orders, visible to whoever answers the phone or WhatsApp.

    Result: No enquiry is lost because it lived only in one person's phone.

  2. Weekend booking visibility review

    A check of confirmed and pending bookings for the coming weekend, flagging which need a follow-up call.

    Result: A pending booking gets chased before the slot fills with a walk-in instead.

  3. A separate corporate account list

    A view of offices or clients who order regularly, tracked apart from one-off enquiries.

    Result: A repeat account gets the attention that keeps it coming back.

  4. A regular tracker review session

    A recurring check-in on the tracker, agreed with you, so cold enquiries are caught early.

    Result: You see which enquiries are stalling before the customer decides elsewhere.

How the result is measured

  • Target achievement
  • Pipeline coverage
  • Stuck deals resolved

Recorded as a baseline before work starts, so every later report has an honest comparison.

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What the cafe manager reviews

Look at these five things in the booking tracker before the weekend rota is set.

Party and group table requests in the DMs
Scroll the Instagram DMs and the cafe WhatsApp for birthday, kitty party and group table requests. Any that are not in the tracker go in now, with a name against each reply.
Weekend bookings not confirmed
List bookings with no advance paid or no headcount confirmed. Call those hosts before Thursday evening and release the table if they do not reply.
Catering and office coffee quotes
Check quotes sent for office meetings, pop-ups and event catering. One with no reply after a few days needs a call, with the menu and per-head rate resent in the same message.
Office accounts that have gone quiet
Read the corporate list for offices that used to order coffee and snacks for meetings. When one stops, call the admin contact and ask whether the order moved to an app, a rival or an in-house pantry.
Why a booking or quote was lost
Write a short reason against every lost enquiry: price, menu, seating, parking or a slow reply from the counter. Read them together before you change the party package.

Who it is for

This is written for these cafes and coffee shops.

  • Independent single-outlet cafes
  • Specialty coffee roasters with a cafe
  • Cafes inside co-working spaces
  • Bakery cafes
  • Cafe chains opening new outlets
  • Cloud kitchen and delivery-only cafes
  • Cafes attached to bookstores or art spaces
  • Late-night and student-area cafes

Not for

It is not the right fit if.

  • The cafe has few bookings or catering enquiries, and a pipeline would track an empty list.
  • The manager does not have time to look at the list, so it would go stale.
  • Bookings are taken on personal phones that the cafe does not control.

How it works

How the sales management work runs

The work itself, in order. How an engagement starts, from your brief to a written scope, is set out on our method page.

  1. 1

    Look at what exists

    We ask for the last few weeks of calendars, pipeline records and review notes, and find where the routine breaks.

  2. 2

    Write the routine down

    Slots, agendas, attendees and the records each meeting uses are agreed in writing before the first one.

  3. 3

    Clean the pipeline first

    Stage definitions are fixed and stale deals removed, so the first review is about real deals.

  4. 4

    Run or coach

    We lead the meetings, or sit in while your manager leads and give feedback afterwards.

  5. 5

    Deal with problems as they appear

    A slipping number is discussed at the next one-on-one with notes, not stored up for an appraisal.

  6. 6

    Hand over

    Your manager or owner takes the routine, with the templates and records, and we step back.

Where this fits

Three pieces of sales work, in this order.

This work sits inside sales management. A target, a review routine and someone who owns the number.

  1. Step 1

    Sales audit

    Find where deals are being lost and what to fix first.

    Start here if you cannot say where orders are lost.

  2. Step 2

    Sales process design

    One written way to sell, from first enquiry to repeat order.

    Start here if every salesperson sells differently.

  3. Step 3 · you are here

    Sales management

    A target, a review routine and someone who owns the number.

    Start here if the team has targets and no routine.

Tell us what you need Your brief is read before we call. Scope, fee and term in writing.

FAQ

Questions owners ask before they call.

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Tell us what you need
What tool does a cafe need for this?
A shared sheet or simple booking tool is enough for most cafes, scaling to a proper system only once there are multiple outlets.
How often should this be reviewed?
Weekly, so pending bookings and catering enquiries do not sit past the point where the customer has already decided elsewhere.
Should the barista or floor staff be part of the review?
Bring whoever answers the cafe phone and WhatsApp during the day, since they know which party enquiries stalled. Keep the kitchen lead for catering quotes only. Do it before opening, standing at the counter, so nobody is pulled off the floor during service.
My staff reply to bookings from their own phones and forget to log them. How do I stop that?
Move bookings to one cafe number on WhatsApp Business and keep that phone at the counter, not in a pocket. A reply from a personal phone then has nowhere to go. Make the tracker the only list the floor staff use to seat a party, so a missing entry shows up on the day.
How much does it cost?
There is no price list, because the work differs by business. The fee is scoped after we have read your brief and spoken to you, and put in writing before anything starts, split into our time, your media spend and production.
How long is the contract?
The term is agreed in writing after we have spoken, along with the fee and the reporting. It is never a default twelve months, and renewal is decided on the numbers against the baseline recorded at the start.
How soon will we see results?
It depends on the trade, the channel and what is already in place. After we have read your brief and spoken to you, we say what we would expect to move first and how it will be measured against the baseline. Nothing here is guaranteed.
Who will actually do the work?
The person you speak to before anything starts. We work from one office in Nagarbhavi, Bengaluru, with no account managers in between.
What do you need from us?
Your brief, and a conversation. After that, access to whatever this work touches, such as your website, your accounts or your enquiry record, and time with the people who handle your enquiries.

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