Local Restaurants and Bars Can See a 5x Increase in Business during the SXSW festival and Maintaining Your Outstanding Health Inspection Grade Will Ensure You’re Open and Ready for Business.
Every year, hundreds of thousands of people flock to Austin, Texas for the SXSW festival. This Austin based festival is a conglomerate of film, interactive media, and music festivals that occur in mid-March every year since 1987. Over 400,000 people journey to the massive festival every year and these attendees have a vital impact on more than just the Austin tourism economy.
SXSW Has a Significant Impact on Austin Restaurants and Bars
The SXSW attendees aren’t just patronizing local entertainment destinations, hotels, and buying car rental companies. They also have a significant impact on local Austin bars and restaurants. In fact, Austin restaurants and bars can see over a 5 time increase in normal business during the SXSW festival. During this time approximately $35 million is spent on food and drinks. Those are vital dollars that your establishment cannot afford to miss out on.
A Poor Health Inspection Can Be Detrimental to Your Restaurant
So, what happens if you get a poor health inspection grade? Well, your grade dropping from outstanding to the level below can see a $50,000 drop in revenues over the course of a year. Currently, over 1,000 restaurants in Austin are in danger of not passing their health inspection and losing out on the $35 million spent in restaurants and bars during SXSW.
In addition, 67% of SXSW attendees are between the ages of 25 and 44 and spend over 223 minutes on their phones daily. Rave reviews on Yelp or pictures on Instagram with your location tagged can increase traffic through your establishment significantly during this time, but you have to be open to take advantage of that. A failing health inspection can mean closed doors and that is something you cannot afford, especially during this influx of tourists.
If you want to ensure that you stay open during the SXSW festival, you need to guarantee that your establishment is up to the current health code standards and will pass an inspection.
With Standardized Electronic Inspection Forms, MyFieldAudits Can Help You Pass Health Inspection and Stay Open for SXSW
With MyFieldAudits, you can ensure that your restaurant passes any and all health inspections that occur before the 2019 SXSW festival so you can remain open and capitalize on the influx of tourists. Our standardized, pre-developed electronic health inspection forms allow you to quickly and easily conduct inspections of your own to make sure that everything is up to code. With real-time access to information, you can respond to issues immediately and keep your restaurant in compliance for the real inspections that will come. To learn more about MyFieldAudits and how we can help you maintain in health code compliance, contact us today at info@MyFieldAudits.com.