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Coffee is king in the food service industry. What used to be available in just regular and decaffeinated has become very diversified and particular. Type of bean, manner of preparation, and consumption has become standard basics in today's coffee drinking choices. Convenient stores are faced with the not - so - easy task of improving their coffee stations in order to maintain their number one product sales.

Increasing sales of any product means giving consumers what they want. The purpose of the convenient store is to fulfill these wants in purchases that can be made in a few minutes. This service has been expensive in the past, especially concerning health and beauty products, and stores are now contending with a solution that benefits all parties. The answers seem to lie in presentation, product, and price; single serving packaging promotes impulse sales.

Snacking is more nuanced than you might think. A recent Nielsen report revealed that people who snack can be divided into three distinct "types". If you want your snacks and drinks to appeal to everyone, you need to know how to reach all three. Which category do you fall into, and how can you appeal to shoppers with wildly different snacking habits?

Change is the one universal constant. Everything is in flux of becoming or being, and your business is right in the middle of it. You must optimize options in order to maximize results.

Herbal teas, juices and soft drinks aren't going anywhere, but nothing has consumers hooked like coffee. One of the most popular beverages in the world, coffee dominates countless city corners and takes up precious space in every C-store. You might not need special promotions or cutting-edge displays to sell it, but if you really want to capitalize on coffee culture, you should embrace trends and set your sights on the tastiest beans and most organized stations.

According to experts at Convenience Store News, a store is only as good as its hot beverage program. It is the center of services, the foundation upon which the rest of the services are built. So, you're focused and you want to step up your program, but you're not sure how to go about it? First you need to establish what needs to be done. Can you just add to your existing program or do you need to revamp it?

Convenient store clerks must be the masters of multitasking. They stock, clean, run cash registers, and more important, they greet and interact with customers. Store owners are always looking for ways to decrease overhead, but cutting the number of staff doesn't make sense. In fact, making the job less tedious for existing employees is a better solution.