4.8 out of 5 based on 183 reviews
A simple plan to increase profit
Finding out how I was losing money in my café was eye-opening. The fixes were so simple and quick to action
Who knew increasing profits in my café business was right in front of me the whole time? Carlton Scott headed straight to the problem with solutions.
You're working hard, the counter is busy... but the numbers don't feel right.
Running a café in Kelso usually looks like this:
You're not failing. You're running a café without a clear profit system.
Working towards the end goal: higher profits.
By the end of the 30 days, you’ll have:
This isn’t a course. It’s a proven system, implemented with you and built around your business numbers.
Let your businessWe only take on 10 clients per month to ensure hands-on implementation, not just advice.
Sound like you? Let’s get you Profit Clarity in the next 30 days.
Let your businessProfit Clarity is what your accountant can't show you and your coach won't tell you, as most have never actually done it themselves.
No courses. No gurus. Implementation to get real results in 30 days.
Let your business
We find exactly where your Kelso café is losing profit. Menu and drinks pricing, ingredient and waste costs, staff rotas, card and delivery fees, cash flow between the big days and the quiet ones. We go through everything.
We don't hand you a report and disappear. We fix it. Practical changes, implemented fast, with you.
Once the foundations are solid and profit is flowing correctly, we build on it. Sustainable growth, not guesswork
This isn't a discovery call where we try to sell you something. It's 30 days of focused work on your café, from a team based just up the road in St Boswells. Application only. Limited engagements each month.
This is a 30-day implementation plan designed to increase profit fast and build control in the business. You’re not paying for BS advice and gurus. You’re paying for profit clarity + implementation + a plan that’s proven.
Our proven framework to increase profit works in 3 simple steps. Diagnose > Fix > Grow
See increased profits in just 90 days
“From the first call, Steve at Carlton Scott understood our goals and delivered clear, practical support that made a real difference to our business.”
No courses. No gurus. Implementation to get results in 30 days.
Let your businessFrom stuck to profitability. In 30 days
Most small business owners aren't failing, they're stuck. Stuck in the day-to-day, stuck in the same margins, stuck wondering why a busy business isn't paying them what it should.
We remove the BS and focus on what is going to drive results: implementing real changes. You’re 30 days away from becoming profitable.
One of the best pitches in the Borders, used properly. The cobbled Square is billed as Scotland's largest, the town holds its retail well (vacancy around 4%, far below the regional average), and race days, Civic Week and the Border Union Show bring genuine surges of trade. The catch is the gaps between the big days. Profit in Kelso is about managing both.
They create surge days that can be worth several ordinary days each, if you're set up for them. Kelso's National Hunt meetings run autumn to spring, Civic Week fills July, and the Border Union Show brings the farming county to town. Cafés that plan stock, rotas and a tightened menu for those days bank the surge. Cafés that treat them as ordinary days just get tired.
With quality and consistency rather than gimmicks. Around 30% of Kelso's population is over 65, and older regulars are the best customers a café can have: they come often, at predictable times, and they're loyal for years. They also notice change, so pricing needs care rather than avoidance. Small, well-explained rises hold regulars far better than sudden panicked ones.
It's fixed: £1,495 + VAT for every café, whether you're on the Square or off it. That covers the full 30-day diagnose-and-fix process, pricing, waste, rotas, fees and cash flow, with the changes implemented rather than left in a report. Most clients who commit to it and follow our recommendations see a full return on the fee within 90 days.
Yes. The big days are exactly when we want to see the café working, so you stay behind the counter and we work around service. The onboarding call takes about an hour, gathering your paperwork takes another, and after that most of the effort is ours. A few hours a week from you, mostly at the start.
Usually within days of applying, though we take limited engagements each month. To begin we need six months of business bank statements, your menu and supplier costs, and an hour for the onboarding call. From there the 30 days run straight through, big days and quiet ones alike, and the diagnosis starts almost immediately.
Staff rotas: we saved so much overspend on staffing costs, Carlton Scott knew exactly how to maximise this.
When Carlton Scott said we needed to investigate the waste cost, I didn’t have a clue what they meant. Saved me a small fortune!
Let your business