Mersea

At Mersea, we only do fresh produce, with quality products like fish and lobster, so we can't afford any losses. We've started 2022 with 4 stores and our first franchise. Our goal for 2023 is to open 2 to 3 new stores stores a year. With Inpulse, we're giving future franchisees the means to clearly achieve the margin targets we set for our restaurants.

With Inpulse, we can set real targets that managers or operators can easily achieve, such as a 1% loss rate. Any higher would mean too much loss, and any lower would mean too much breakage. Before Inpulse, I often had to wait until the end of the month to check purchases: how much we've thrown away, how much we have in stock. With the current rise in prices, it's important to really control my food cost in all restaurants.

"We've gained three points of margin through Inpulse." Keyvan Badri, Mersea founder

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Now, thanks to Inpulse, we have several ways to act: we can rework our purchases with our suppliers, we can rework our recipes in another way, introduce new ones. We are lucky because we have more than 80 recipes. So thanks to Inpulse, we can react very quickly and add these new recipes to our menu.

Implementation in 4 weeks

My biggest fear when setting up a new tool is that it takes time and usually a lot of energy and human resources. As soon as we decided to move forward with Inpulse, we were very well supported from A to Z, from the setting up of the recipe cards to the training of the staff.

At Mersea, we have at least 3 people who have gained at least half a day a week: our buyer who deals with price lists, our operations manager who deals with forecasting and our production manager who receives orders. Everyone got on board very quickly.

"It's important with the current price hike to really control my food cost across restaurants." Keyvan Badri, Mersea founder.

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"Thanks to Inpulse, I manage my stocks, I have much less out of stock." Stephane Souchere, Mersea Beaupassage manager.

Before Inpulse, I worked in a rather rudimentary way, that is to say, there were orders that we placed by email, by phone... There is always a supplier that we will forget.

With Inpulse, I was able to centralize everything on the same software and place orders in one click.

I need to save 30 minutes in a day. Inpulse has allowed me to have an overview of all my delivery dates, my open orders, my undelivered orders.

It's also easy to pass on to my teams. I have an assistant manager who handles this, so it was much easier to train her via Inpulse. My favorite thing about Inpulse is the fact that credit requests are automatically emailed to suppliers."

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If you would like to take advantage of an Inpulse, request an appointment with an expert today to see what Inpulse can do for you.