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Mobile Bar Hire Maidstone – 5 Things To Consider In 2020. So, You’ve decided you want to look at Mobile Bar Hire In Maidstone for your birthday. The big wedding, a hen party or just a simple summer barbecue. But how do you choose a Mobile Bar company in Maidstone that will be the best fit for your event?
This FREE guide will help you work out what you need. How to avoid the crooks of the industry, and more importantly. Ensure that the Mobile Bars you hire are suitable for the gig, and, Great quality!
As well as an aesthetically pleasing & great looking Mobile Bar, There may be other reasons you could be hiring a Mobile Bar. Possibly to protect your own furniture, have the event outside where there is no kitchen island, or just wanting the guests to enjoy a fully equipped mobile bar hire as a luxury. There are so many reasons to consider needing one for your event. This guide will assist you in making sure that you know what to look for in a Mobile Bar beyond what the front of it looks like.
Hiring a Mobile Bar In Maidstone
You’re taking the plunge and deciding to rent a Mobile Bar for your event. Be it a birthday, wedding, Marquee Party, or even a small barbecue among friends.
After looking around online, there are SO MANY companies on google, all with seemingly the same Mobile Bar & it’s a struggle to know what options you should be looking for to Hire a Mobile Bar in Maidstone that stands out.
So How to Choose a Mobile Bar Company in Maidstone? If you don’t want to read through this in depth guide, we have included a Video on this subject so you can save alot of reading effort & check this out.
See our video explainer about what you should be looking for with mobile bar hire below.
Some of the mobile bar web sites out there have fantastic images, while some.. Don’t. We have seen some of the instagrams on the Companies doing Mobile bar hire & honestly, we have no idea how they created a business around it.
Others have the super pretty LED Mobile Bars available.
While it may be extremely exciting to have an LED mobile bar, or found one that matches the colour of your new kitchen. Some (Like ours) also have the facility for you to get your own Posters printed to a specified size & completely personalise your Mobile Bar Front, with a Backlit LED panel making your bespoke design really shine.
However, with all this pretty fascias & options on the crowd facing side of the Mobile Bar.
Should you be focusing on going with companies that have great looking pictures though?
Functionality of the Hired Mobile Bar
If you are just looking for a pretty bar, you can get those anywhere. Honestly, just click google images & see all the options for yourself.
But for the same price as one of the pretty ones, wouldn’t you rather a bar that’s not only pretty, but been DESIGNED to make your bartender actually better at their job. Isn’t it worth spending just a few more moments finding a better value product for that same price. A Mobile Bar Hire that will actually make your event run smoother, as well as look the part?
If you’re going for a mobile bar, you need to consider functionality too. It’s so important. Usually, this would be Especially valuable for high volume parties. Where a bartender is working up against their maximum capacity for guests. Usually a bartender can handle up to 50 guests on their own, but this is them working at their fastest. They will become flustered, at times building up a little head sweat, a Mobile bar Hire will hugely impact their ability to organise themselves so much more efficiently.
Your bartender will work faster behind a Mobile Bar, with more confidence. They’ll also be able to keep not only a cleaner workstation behind a Hired mobile bar. But most importantly serve your guests much faster & be so much happier while doing so, versus a table in the corner.
Always Ask what materials the Hired Mobile Bar is made from.
To pick out the right provider in Maidstone for a mobile bar. We need to be looking for things your bartender would require in a Mobile Bar to be able to do their job effectively.
Look at & definitely ask what the bar is made from. Believe it or not, this is a huge giveaway as to the kind of company you are looking to hire. While some will pick “stock” bars from a company selling them off the shelf, which is fine. It’s a quality item. Nothing wrong at all in Mobile Bar Companies in Maidstone using these.
But the problem with these off the shelf Mobile Bars, is they are just not adaptable to your individual needs. But It is still better than what some of the companies out there are hiring out to people.
There are a few, by this I definitely mean more than one company ive discovered over the years, building cheap wooden bars themselves & hiring them out as professional items. I would like to plant a huge red flag here & make sure your Mobile Bar Hire Company is not providing you with a Wooden Bar.
A wooden bar – including labour. Can be put together for less than £100, yet some Mobile Bar Hire companies hire them out for £165 + V.A.T. or more PER HIRE, literally DOUBLE the production value. For the matter of hours it will be in your event, Its still considered “New” & then gives these companies a product they can re-use 4 or 5 times before it wears out & they start the process again.
This practice isn’t right. We highly recommend avoiding these companies as you never know what else they could be overcharging for.
What should my Hired Mobile Bar be made from?
Here at Cocktail Hire, we offer Mobile Bar Hire in Maidstone too, and with all the previous section being said, whilst one of our options is for wooden fascias for people who desire that look. They are only wooden Fascias, to Make the Bar LOOK like its made from Wood.
The actual frames behind our facias are made from hard-wearing custom-built steel and aluminium. This is extremely hard wearing, This Hired Mobile Bar can take a beating & still come out looking Fantastic. All of our fascias are renewable, They’re always in fantastic condition & will look a lot better in any environment than one of the before mentioned hand built wooden mobile bars bar that you’ve paid over the odds for to hire.
Something very serious to consider when thinking about how to choose a Maidstone mobile bar hire company.
Drainage systems for Water & Ice on your Hired Mobile Bar.
You should also be looking at whether or not the Hired Mobile bar has a sink with drainage for the ice? A well made mobile bar would have been designed by a bartender. Or at the very least had bartenders involved in the design process.
A working sink with drainage is essential for a good bar. We have to put the ice somewhere that isn’t in the way or a hindrance to the operation of the rest of the bar. As well as utilising the drainage to strain water away from the ice, this makes the ice last much longer & creates the finished product of a far better quality drink.
Sunken ice wells, built into the mobile bar. This really helps to minimise clutter while also ensuring that the bartender can do their job seamlessly. Watch out for Mobile Bar Hire companies in Maidstone that don’t offer this as they are just hiring you a glorified table with a shelf for an over the top price.
Does your Mobile Bar Hire Company Provide Speed Rails.
Most people might not know what these are unless they see them! These are metallic rows that typically fit next to the ice well and house all the bottles in lower positions. This makes it very easy for the bartender to grab. We realise this is not that much of a priority for anyone looking to hire a mobile bar. Or even that you even knew they existed.
But they are extremely important to a bartenders speed. This is because they serve so many purposes, Most importantly, they free up work & surface space behind the bar for the bartender to place everything form their ingredients, to their glassware and any other items that they need to make your drinks.
So although you may not be concerned about the Speed Rails on the Mobile Bar itself, it provides nothing to your side of the bar, or how its perceived to you, or your guests.
It will however, make a colossal difference as to how fast your bartender can work, make your guests drinks & ultimately make your event far better. Which of course does benefit you.
Not many mobile bars bought off the shelf like the other Mobile Bar Hire Companies in The UK would have. Let alone Mobile Bar Hires in Maidstone. But if a company has made this investment into their mobile bars by getting a speed rail. It’s a sure-fire way to be certain that they know what they are doing and will usually provide a first-class service.
Mobile Bar Hire Maidstone – 5 Things To Consider In 2020
Summary:
To sum up. You should ask to see photos of not only the front of the bar but the rear too.
Dont accept wooden construction, unless it’s a panel you have chosen to clip onto a steel frame. Just outright do not accept it, unless it is colossally discounted in price. Or the offer is just too good to pass up. Stay away from Wooden Framework for Mobile Bar Hire.
Look for durable sinks built into the Mobile Bar. Avoid anything that has just a bucket placed on the Mobile Bar Top, or on the service area behind the bar. This serves you nothing further than just placing a Trestle Table out & your bartender wont work any faster, or any more efficiently. So you may as well, get Said Trestle Table, save the money & spend it on the Spirits you need to purchase for the event.
Then also check whether they have speed rails for the bottles to fit in. If they have these, you can be sure you’ve found a good Mobile bar for your event in Maidstone.
Happy hunting for your bar & we hope you have a fantastic event, even if its not booking through us. However, we do have a booking form below if you would like to chat to us about Hiring A Mobile Bar, In Maidstone.
Author
Stu Hoyland, Director – Cocktailhire