Business Transaction Accounts

I know my business matters to Bendigo Bank because they genuinely care. When they come in and visit and frequent the venues, they check in with me, but also they dine and take out new clients to those venues all the time. And they showcase to those clients what can happen with a great partnership.

My name is Brian Taylor at Taylor Hospitality here in Ballarat. In 2009, we started Hop Temple, which is a craft beer and food hall. It's down a laneway in this old warehouse, which was condemned at the time and no one wanted to use it. Bendigo Bank helped us see the vision that we could create something there.

We've always bought buildings that have been vacant and have to renovate and do up, and Bendigo Bank has been fantastic to see the vision that we present to them. And so Bendigo has been flexible enough to be able to do that.

With Hop Temple being so successful, we've decided to go out and do some more, and different types of venues. And Bendigo Bank had that trust and had that vision. People think of Bendigo Bank as that community bank where you got that great relationship, but it's more than that. It's a commercial bank, a commercial bank that actually can do a lot for you.

Because we have so many different businesses, we have lots of different needs. And Bendigo Bank has been fantastic in regards to the flexibility they offer with loans, Tyro, EFTPOS facilities, business credit cards. They've been great to partner with to achieve the outcomes we need for those businesses.

If you don't move quickly in business, you get left behind, I can tell you that now. So it's fantastic to have someone like Bendigo Bank to be able to move quickly with you.

If you've got a successful business, money will come. But what I love the most is seeing people grow. I see staff come from 18 all the way to 60 and we see them grow as people. And that's what we're trying to develop is great culture. And the relationship we have with Bendigo, they've got great culture and their culture aligns with our culture as a business.