Tutti Pizza

Many franchisors are looking for solutions to help franchisees preserve their margins. Tutti Pizza has made the strategic choice to work primarily on the back office, with a focus on optimizing purchasing and inventory management.

"It was against this backdrop of uncertainty that we decided to offer all our franchisees an easy-to-use inventory management solution that would enable us to accurately manage our margins in the face of rising raw material prices." Sébastien Bori, Director of the Tutti Pizza network.

And the results are already there, as Julien Bori, director of the Tutti Pizza network and owner of two branches, explains: "Thanks to Inpulse, we have reduced our losses in a few weeks. Thanks to Inpulse, we have reduced our losses in a few weeks, we buy better, we have already saved 5000 euros on the first quarter of 2023 on our two branches". 

Reduce your food cost in 2 months

To maintain profitability, you have to be extremely precise about your purchases and your consumption of raw materials, as Damien Plessis, a multi-site franchise manager with 16 years of experience in the restaurant business, points out:

"The Emmental carton has doubled since January 1, 2022. Putting 10g more cheese on a pizza in 2021 and today does not have the same impact on the margin. The slightest slippage can be counted in thousands of euros, and we monitor consumption variations every week with Inpulse. Despite inflation, we've gained two margin points."

"We have fewer stock-outs and have been able to modify our product mix by highlighting our high-ratio pizzas on our menu. We've been smart about our approach to promotions, choosing the right products for promotions and limiting the impact of rising raw material prices.

"Before, we were more carefree, we were not at 2 or 3% margin, it is so thin since 2019, that we need a very precise inventory management. We can't pass on rate increases to the end customer, there are inevitable salary increases and fixed charges, there is little room for maneuver, we no longer have a choice, we have to react quickly."

Analyze and react more quickly

"When I was working in Excel, I didn't have a reliable theoretical margin, it's complicated to gather information from the different sales channels that are multiplying. And especially, there are months when we had no time at all to put the numbers together, so we could go a quarter without knowing our margin. With Inpulse, we have a reliable theoretical margin and we started analyzing our top 10 SKUs every week."

"This brings to light unusual losses in a restaurant, for example. But we also once had the case of a new pizzaiolo who didn't put enough in the dishes, and that's important too, because if you're not generous enough, you lose out on quality. We hadn't noticed this because, on average, all the restaurants were on target food cost . It's because we had access to granular data, by point of sale, that we discovered the problem and were able to re-establish compliance on these two restaurants." Damien Plessis

Implementing good practices

"The number of credit note requests has exploded since we introduced Inpulse. We can generate them automatically on the tablet, so we don't miss any more. After a month, we've seen the first effects, and the impact on food cost is astonishing."

"We have also succeeded in improving inventories and tracking stock transfers, essential steps in verifying actual consumption. We have raised the awareness of our teams by giving them access to performance data: food cost, consumption variances. They get a bonus on margin targets. They've got to grips with the tool and that motivates them, they're confident. Some of them manage to keep their inventories stable. They can see their inventory errors, if they've forgotten a stock transfer for example.

Focus on the tasks that are most valuable

"At headquarters, we save a lot of time spent on analysis. At the accounting level, on inventory valuation, invoice reconciliation, and especially have access to margin as early as the 2nd of the month, which I didn't have before."

"The managers have been able to delegate and increase the skills of the operational staff: now, the pizzaiolos place orders when they didn't do so before. They have saved time on placing orders thanks to the generation of automatic order forms, and this time, they use it to place, analyze, they become real managers."

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