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 Peebles usually looks like this:
You're not failing. You're running a café in a competitive town 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 Peebles café is losing profit. Menu and drinks pricing, ingredient and waste costs, staff rotas, card and delivery fees, cash flow. 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 half an hour away 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.
Because everything that makes Peebles attractive also raises the bar. The High Street is one of Scotland's best for independents, which means more cafés per customer than any other Borders town, and rents priced for the postcode. Trade is strong; margins are contested. In a town like this the profit comes from pricing and efficiency, not from waiting for more footfall.
Usually, yes. Peebles has some of the strongest café spending power in the south of Scotland: Edinburgh commuters, comfortable retirees and leisure visitors who happily pay city prices for quality. A café underpricing here is leaving more on the table than almost anywhere else in the Borders. Price to your quality and your costs, not to a fear that's rarely tested.
By being ready for waves. Riders and walkers arrive in groups, hungry, at predictable times and in weather-driven surges. The cafés that profit from the Tweed Valley trade run menus and rotas built for those waves: fast, filling, properly priced, with seating and service that turn a wet Saturday burst into banked margin rather than chaos.
No. It's a fixed £1,495 + VAT whatever the size of the café, covering 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.
No. You stay behind the counter through the weekend waves; 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, and none of it during your peak trade.
Less than you'd think: six months of business bank statements, your menu and supplier costs, and an hour for the onboarding call. For a Peebles café we pay particular attention to takings across the weekend waves and the weekday troughs. From there we diagnose where the profit is going and start fixing it with you.
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