3 Upgrades To Make The Most of Your Parking Lot
Many restaurants and retail stores are transitioning quickly in this new and unpredictable time. With businesses turning to outdoor seating and pick up only, one area that is helping, is redesigning parking lot space. Apex is helping numerous companies modify their parking lots to serve their clients better and grow their business during this time. Here are a few of the strategies that companies are using to make better use of parking lots for their business and clients.
Veteran Parking & Membership Parking
Providing delegated parking spots for your rewards program customers and valued customers is a simple way for people to connect more with your brand and reward them for being great customers. This is a creative project that might just look like adding different parking striping and signage. It also might look like providing trailer-angled parking for contractors who tow trailers. One big-box hardware company we worked with provided parking spots for veterans only. Do you think the veterans feel like the company is thinking about them during this crazy time? We think they do. Apex was able to help them with this project by installing new signs and parking stripes in 1100 locations over 8 weeks. In another project for a national retail company, we were able to add signage for reward member’s delegated parking spots in over 1600 locations.
Contactless Pickup Modifications
Installing easy to read outdoor menu boards and clear signs is the name of the game now. The less friction it is to do business with you, outside, the less fear and risk there is with using your facility. Make it easy by modifying your parking lot to show how easy it is. Install drive-thru pickup lanes. Put up signs for pickup only parking. In some situations, it might even make sense to do dining only parking spots where you provide servers for customer’s parking dine-in experience.
Drive-Thru Modifications
Thinking creatively about your drive-thru’s is a must during these hot summer COVID months, you don’t want your customers stuck in their cars for too long in the heat, not knowing when they are going to get to the front of the line. Installing drive-thru modifications can be a pain but it also might be a necessity to serve your customers well in this day and age. Apex has helped national retail clients widen drive-thrus, add ordering canopies, paint stripe drive-thru lanes, and even think creatively about how to add additional drive-thru windows.
Overall, there are many business transitions going on during this time, and if a parking lot modification is something you’ve been thinking about we believe it definitely can help serve your customers well. Apex is able to re-stripe parking spaces and add any parking and drive-thru modifications to fit your company’s needs to best serve your customers—and we can do it nationwide. Get your project started by speaking to an Apex rep today!