I own a reception centre and catering business in town and let me tell you, it’s one heck of an industry to get mixed up in. We’re located in an area that has a few similar businesses and boy is it cut-throat. The competition here in Brisbane is bloody. We’re tying to get a competitive edge by making our centre the cleanest and classiest out of the lot, after all, in business you have to find a way to stand out.
Our wait staff double as cleaners. We’ve even purchased our own commercial cleaning machines such as a couple of floor scrubbing machines. Brisbane CBD has a few good companies which hire them out but we thought if we’re going to use the machines a lot we may as well invest in our own. It comes as no surprise that the floors get filthy – an untold number of people walk through every week, each of them bringing grime from the filthy places they’ve been and spilling their sticky drinks all over the dancefloor. We’ve also purchased an industrial-grade steam cleaner for the carpeted areas which gets food mashed into it and all kinds of stains. The floor cleaning machinery is the ‘ride-on’ kind which saves a lot of energy pushing those great big machines around. With the amount of dirt and grime we get at our reception centre, it’s a wonder that we managed to find powerful-enough floor scrubbers in Brisbane. I was thinking we’d have to hire some kind of space-aged cleaning robot from Japan but thankfully Brissie has all the services we need.
I’m presently ordering tuxedos for the waiters and maid dresses for the waitresses, I figure we need to have a bit of glamour and a bit of quirkiness in the mix if we want to get noticed among your run of the mill reception centres. I know I’d like to be served by a handsome young devil in a tailcoat – would you?