£38,000
Completed transaction · Café
£125,000 across three facilities. New staff, more stock, steady cash flow.
A café that needed to take on staff and buy stock ahead of the takings they would bring in.
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- Amount
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- Sector
- Café
- Structure
- Revenue-based finance
- Outcome
- Repeat funding relationship
In short
The business needed funding for new staffing costs, stock purchases and general working capital. Across three facilities, we arranged £125,000 in total. Three facilities completed, totalling £125,000. The business could take on staff and stock without stretching its cash.
Two hospitality businesses with the same turnover can look very different to a lender. Seasonality, card receipts and margins all change the picture.
For this café, the job was finding a lender whose appetite matched the real trading, not a sector assumption.
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The requirement
The business needed funding for new staffing costs, stock purchases and general working capital.
Across three facilities, we arranged £125,000 in total.
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The challenge
New staff and extra stock are paid for before they generate takings. In hospitality, that gap lands on day-to-day cash flow.
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The structure
We matched the funding to the café's trading pattern with revenue-based facilities, repaid from takings rather than fixed monthly repayments.
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The result
Three facilities completed, totalling £125,000.
The business could take on staff and stock without stretching its cash.
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Can a hospitality business get funding with seasonal or card-based trading?
Often, yes. Many lenders fund pubs, restaurants, cafés and hotels. Some size a facility on card takings, with repayments that rise and fall with sales; others offer fixed-term business loans. Which suits depends on how the business trades. See hospitality business loans.
Can I come back for more funding later?
Yes. Many of our clients return as their business changes, for a top-up, a renewal or a different kind of facility. Each new request is assessed on its own merits and is subject to status.
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