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The Wine Bar Game - Business Simulation
Duration: 4-6 hours + debrief
Participants: 3-24 (up to four teams of 3-6 per team)
Who: Staff at any level
PC required: Only one pc (or laptop) and printer required
Price:
£595.00
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Your initial efforts paid off - your new wine bar is making a profit! Should you diversify into cocktails, expand the garden in time for summer or just consolidate the main business? An exciting business simulation that introduces the basics.
A business simulation to see who runs their wine bar best. You start from scratch - agreeing a loan and deciding on refurbishment, price field, marketing budget, advertising copy, staffing, pay - and how many bottles of wine to stock.
After plenty of discussion your decisions are analysed on computer and results given as a weekly P&L, bank statement and sales breakdown together with help and advice. You’ll face further challenges of quality, expansion and diversification, so each round check your business performance in order to make informed decisions rather than acting on whims and assumptions. That way you are much more likely to maximise profit.
Run for six, seven, eight, or more weekly rounds. Listing each team’s profit each round encourages cut-throat competition!
A business simulation to see who runs their wine bar best. You start from scratch - agreeing a loan and deciding on refurbishment, price field, marketing budget, advertising copy, staffing, pay - and how many bottles of wine to stock.
After plenty of discussion your decisions are analysed on computer and results given as a weekly P&L, bank statement and sales breakdown together with help and advice. You’ll face further challenges of quality, expansion and diversification, so each round check your business performance in order to make informed decisions rather than acting on whims and assumptions. That way you are much more likely to maximise profit.
Run for six, seven, eight, or more weekly rounds. Listing each team’s profit each round encourages cut-throat competition!
- basic business principles
- to work as a team
- to base decisions on the information available
- the need to forecast demand
- to analyse basic financial data (profit & loss)
- the importance of a ‘quality’ business
- to weigh up opportunities
- Introduce the session using the PowerPoint presentation.
- Issue Briefing Folders and allow 90 minutes for teams to discuss the details and complete their first Decision Form.
- Collect Decision Forms and enter data into the computer.
- Issue results and allow 20 minutes for teams to study their results and prepare their next Decision Form.
- After six or seven ‘rounds’ ask each team to prepare a short presentation to sell their business. You, the Trainer, will purchase the wine bar you feel has been best managed and which has the best future potential.
- Lead a debrief using the detailed guidance in the Trainer’s Notes, and finally announce the winning team. Some Trainers even finish with a wine-tasting!
Carol Morgan, Southern Water I used The Wine Bar Game with 300 managers – used on the first day of a week-long residential course, run over three months. Diversity was brilliant, teams who were on track making the wrong decision and coming last! Great fun, very interactive, good group training for people who hadn’t worked together before. Highly recommend this game, it ticked all the boxes and got a week’s residential off to a good start.
Julia Wood, Key Assets LtdI used The Wine Bar Game on a course to increase commercial awareness and general management and teamwork with middle managers. The best learning points were that motivation increases with profit, and that you should treat staff well! It is a great activity and really keeps everyone interested and learning. The tricky part is getting them to agree to stop after Round 8! Well presented and thought-out – a pleasure to use for both Trainer and delegates!
S. Gidman, TBG LearningWe used The Wine Bar Game during a two-day management conference. It helped participants focus their general business skills and took them into the realm of strategic planning. The competition between the teams to be the best was immense.
A. Boothby, NHS Information AuthorityWe had an extremely successful afternoon with The Wine Bar Game. We seemed to strike just the right balance between achieving our objectives and having some competitive fun!
D. Trelawney, Rapra TechnologyAs a novice trainer The Wine Bar Game was straightforward to use.
M. Newman, Center ParcsA quality product and a highly interactive team versus team activity.
Teri Eastaff, ConsultantI ran The Wine Bar Game as part of a five-day Management Effectiveness Workshop for 16 senior hotel managers. They rated Wine Bar very highly indeed as it was action-packed, stimulating and extremely challenging. Each team felt they really were running their own wine bar. A first class simulation!
At some recent events….
Julia Wood, Key Assets LtdI used The Wine Bar Game on a course to increase commercial awareness and general management and teamwork with middle managers. The best learning points were that motivation increases with profit, and that you should treat staff well! It is a great activity and really keeps everyone interested and learning. The tricky part is getting them to agree to stop after Round 8! Well presented and thought-out – a pleasure to use for both Trainer and delegates!
S. Gidman, TBG LearningWe used The Wine Bar Game during a two-day management conference. It helped participants focus their general business skills and took them into the realm of strategic planning. The competition between the teams to be the best was immense.
A. Boothby, NHS Information AuthorityWe had an extremely successful afternoon with The Wine Bar Game. We seemed to strike just the right balance between achieving our objectives and having some competitive fun!
D. Trelawney, Rapra TechnologyAs a novice trainer The Wine Bar Game was straightforward to use.
M. Newman, Center ParcsA quality product and a highly interactive team versus team activity.
Teri Eastaff, ConsultantI ran The Wine Bar Game as part of a five-day Management Effectiveness Workshop for 16 senior hotel managers. They rated Wine Bar very highly indeed as it was action-packed, stimulating and extremely challenging. Each team felt they really were running their own wine bar. A first class simulation!
At some recent events….
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“Two teams were neck and neck until one diversified into cocktails and lost the plot while the other stayed with the core business and won by a whisker.”
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“One team had the worst profits but made such a persuasive presentation about potential that they sold their business!”
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“On a university MBA course, one team got into the black quicker than any previous teams - so they must be learning something about business skills!!”
- Careers Wales West
- Deloitte
- Fieldon-Cegos
- FQBD Pvt India
- Hilton International, France
- John Moores University
- Lloyds Pharmacy
- P&O Cruises
- Stockport MBC
- The Admiral Group
- Trainer’s Notes
- Software & PowerPoint on CD-ROM
- A4 Pad -Trainer’s Reference Forms
- Handout - Reading the Financial Statement
- Handout - Business Analysis Form
- Team Folders each containing 10 pp of info…. the introduction / the loan / location / street survey / premises / refurbishment schemes /promotion / stock / staffing & payroll / pricing
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