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11 May 2017
How Restaurants Can Get the Best Business Gas Rates
As a restaurant, energy is a significant proportion of your costs – significant enough to spend time ensuring you pay as little as possible for gas. How do you get the best business gas rates, however?
You spend so much on gas because it is such an integral part of your business. You probably use it for cooking, for hot water, and to heat the dining area.
This, of course, is a benefit as well – the reliability of gas ensures you can run an efficient business. For example, your chefs have confidence every time they turn on a ring that it will fire into life.
This convenience doesn’t come at any cost, though. In other words, you can lower your bills and you can get the best business gas rates.
The Most Important Piece of Advice for Restaurants
The most important thing you can do as a restaurant is ensure you don’t automatically roll your contract on when the minimum term expires. Your gas provider will be more than happy to do this as any reduced rate they gave you to get you to sign up will no longer apply. In the vast majority of situations, this will mean you’ll pay more. That benefits nobody except your gas supplier, i.e. you won’t get any additional services in return for the price increase.
So, make sure you go to market every time your gas contract is up for renewal. Here are some tips for doing that effectively:
Making sure you get the best business gas rates is possible. It takes is a bit of time and effort on your behalf, but it is worth it in the long-run.
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