Case study · Restaurant groups
A casual-dining group, opening new sites.
A representative scenario: a casual-dining group adding London sites faster than its existing supplier could deliver to, and needing pricing stable enough to plan against.
The situation
The situation
A casual-dining group expanding across London. The supplier that had worked for the first few restaurants could not reliably deliver to each new site overnight, and pricing was being agreed site by site rather than once for the group. That made the food-cost line hard to forecast, which matters when you are reporting to investors and modelling the next opening.
The group needed a supplier that could move at the pace of the openings: a spec that travelled to a new kitchen without being rebuilt each time, delivery to any London site on the same window, and pricing it could hold in a forecast rather than guess at.
How the model works for it
How the model works for it
One price-locked spec is set with the group and carried to each new site as it opens, so a new kitchen runs to the same lines from its first order rather than starting a supplier relationship from scratch. The same contracted before-service window runs to every site, so an opening week lands on the same delivery rhythm as the established restaurants.
Pricing is agreed for the pricing period and written down before the first order, so the finance team has a stable cost base to model against and is told before a price moves. One statement per site, each invoice already matched to the order and the proof of delivery, consolidates to 30-day terms across the group.
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