Your customers may need replacement barbeque grates when the grates on their grill is too dirty to be cleaned. Other customers may need grate accessories or cleaners to use in conjunction with the grates on their grill.

Having the correct BBQ grates when grilling is essential to ensure that food cooks properly and doesn't fall beneath the grate. When grilling small food, such as shrimp or vegetables, your customers may need to use accessories on top of the grate. Keep these suggestions in mind when ordering your inventory:

1. Appeal to customers who need to replace a grill's barbecue grates.

2. Meet the needs of customers who need accessories for their barbecue grates.

3. Provide customers with the products and tools needed to clean BBQ grates.

Action Steps
The best contacts and resources to help you get it done

Sell replacement barbeque grates

For customers who simply want to replace the barbecue grates on their grill, you need to offer a variety of standard barbeque grates. Keep in mind that you will have customers who need round, square and rectangle replacement barbecue grates.

I recommend: The Barbecue Store offers BBQ grates to fit almost any size grill. This company has barbeque grates to fit multi level grills. This company offers discounted prices and shipping. You can find BBQ grates at Home Improvement Superstore to fit round, square and rectangle grills. This company provides detailed barbecue grate information to help you pick the right barbeque grates to fit your customer's needs.

Offer grids and griddles to use on BBQ grates

When people barbecue, they sometimes want to barbecue small items, such as shrimp or garlic, or items, such as hamburgers, that may fall through standard barbeque grates. Selling grids, griddles, and other accessories for customers to use in conjunction with the standard grate allows you to meet the needs of these customers. It may be helpful to your customers if you organize a BBQ grates list of accessories to show them what product they need for specific grilling projects.

I recommend: For a good selection of grids and griddles for barbecue grates, check 4TheGrill.com or AbsoluteHome.com. Both of these companies offer wholesale prices and discounted shipping on all products.

Keep cleaning supplies for barbeque grates in stock

A clean barbeque grate will grill more evenly and the food will look a lot better than items cooked on a dirty barbecue grate. Sell tools and products that help your customers keep the barbecue grates on their grill clean.

I recommend: Soy Clean has a non-toxic, all natural cleaner for BBQ grates. This company offers a discount if you purchase the cleaner in bulk. Poppa's BBQ Grill Cleaner has a special tool for cleaning barbeque grates. This company offers discounts on orders meeting certain requirements.

Tips & Tactics

Helpful advice for making the most of this Guide

• •  Consider keeping a barbecue grates directory with detailed barbeque grates information to make it easy for your customers to find barbeque grates for any grill.