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The Wine Bar Game™ | Business Simulation
The Wine Bar Game™ | Business Simulation
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Which team can best establish a brand new wine bar? All the basic business principles affect the bottom line. Suitable for all levels.
Highlights the need to plan carefully for a new business and not be too optimistic
Encourages group discussion and management decision-making
Shows the importance of interpreting results, monitoring cash flow and getting control of the figures
Stresses the need for a rational approach to decisions
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$893.00
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Product details
- Type Business Simulation
- Timing 4-6 hours + debrief
- Use Face-to-Face
- Target Audience All Levels
- Min Participants 3
- Max Participants* 24
- *More delegates? Contact Us
- Computer Required Yes (1)
- Printer Required Optional
- Supply Format Hard & Digital Copy
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- Factsheet Download
Northgate says...
"One of our most popular business simulations - now updated and re-designed. Teams really enjoy the weekly messages: money stolen from the till, the forecast for hot weather, the flu epidemic, the customer service issues etc. Some Trainers finish the session with a wine-tasting!"
- Highlights the need to plan carefully for a new business and not be too optimistic
- Encourages group discussion and management decision-making
- Shows the importance of interpreting results, monitoring cash flow and getting control of the figures
- Stresses the need for a rational approach to decisions
- Illustrates that advertising and marketing are crucial
Ideally suited to:
Teamwork and decision-making sessions with an emphasis on business acumen and the analysis of basic business data.
Teams receive a folder with all the details on a new wine bar they are planning to open. Each week they have to order stock, decide how many staff to employ and how much to pay them. They also decide on pricing, advertising, whether to diversify and whether to expand the business.
Decisions are filled out on a simple Decision Form which is fed into the program and the financial results issued together with relevant messages. Teams feel they really are running their own wine bar – this week there was money missing from the till? Presumably teams were not paying staff enough!!
- 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 program.
- 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!
Full guidance supplied in the Trainer’s Notes.
Hard & Digital Copy
- ☑️ Hard copy pack supplied
- ☑️ Program supplied (internet access required)
- ☑️ PDFs & PowerPoint supplied
Digital Copy
- ☑️ Program supplied (internet access required)
- ☑️ PDFs & PowerPoint supplied
Contents
- Trainer’s Notes
- Trainer's PowerPoint
- Trainer’s Reference Forms
- Computer Program (internet access required)
- Team Folders each containing 10 pp of info: The Introduction / Loans / Location / Street Survey / Premises / Refurbishment / Promotion / Stock / Staffing & Payroll / Pricing
- Handout - Reading the Financial Statement
- Handout - Business Analysis Form
This activity is for face-to-face classroom use. The digital files are supplied via the Northgate Trainerhub.
Our licence offering is designed to provide exceptional value and flexibility for your organisational training needs.
Upon purchase, each Northgate activity includes a five-year licence for repeat use, with up to a maximum number of delegates per training session. The maximum number of delegates permitted for this activity is 24. This grants you the freedom to use the activity repeatedly, with the specified maximum number of delegates, for five years.
All Learning and Development (L&D) professionals based at the same site (or ‘remote hub’) as you are granted access to these resources, including to the digital files on the Trainerhub via your site-specific Trainer Dashboard, fostering a collaborative spirit within your immediate team.
Should you wish to make this activity available to a wider audience within your organisation, additional licences are required. We understand the varying needs of different organisations and aim to provide flexible options to suit your requirements.
To use with more than 24 or for multiple site licences please contact us for a quote.
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Cecilia Van Eeden, Technical Training Director, MOORE Kingston Smith 'The Wine Bar Game' is great and a highlight to the course we run! We like to share the team results using graphs after each round - it increases the competition and energy in the room for teams to see how they are comparing to other teams!
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Anton Derham, Learning & Development Manager, Mantra Group Australia 'The Wine Bar Game' was absolutely fabulous and everyone who played had a heap of fun. We’re very happy with it!
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D. Trelawney, Rapra Technology As a novice trainer 'The Wine Bar Game' was straightforward to use.
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A. Boothby, NHS Information Authority We 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!
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S. Gidman, TBG Learning We used 'The Wine Bar Game' during a two-day management conference. The competition between the teams to be the best was immense! It helped participants focus their general business skills and took them into the realm of strategic planning.
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