Find the hidden costs eating your profit.
Every pound saved on cost drops straight to the bottom line. Over time, supplier prices creep, contracts go untested and small inefficiencies compound. We forensically review your cost base and strip out waste without touching quality or service.
- Straight to the bottom line
- Forensic cost review
- No cut to quality
Cutting cost, not corners
Cost reduction has a bad reputation because it's often done bluntly, cheaper stock, fewer staff, lower standards. That damages the guest experience and, eventually, revenue. Done properly, it's about removing waste and overpayment that no customer ever notices.
We review every line of your cost base, from suppliers and labour to utilities, card fees and software subscriptions, and benchmark each against what it should be. The savings we find are real, sustainable and protect the quality your reputation depends on.
What this covers
Supplier Reviews
Test contracts and pricing that haven't been challenged in years.
Procurement Optimisation
Buy smarter across categories and volumes.
Labour Cost Analysis
Match staffing to real demand, shift by shift.
Food Cost Reduction
Tighten GP through spec, portion and waste control.
Beverage Cost Reduction
Improve drink margins and reduce pour loss.
Utility Reviews
Cut energy and water spend on better tariffs.
Merchant Fee Reviews
Recover margin lost to card processing charges.
Software & Subscription Audits
Stop paying for tools you don't use.
Stock & Waste Reduction
Reduce shrinkage, spoilage and over-ordering.
Where profit quietly slips away
Unchallenged supplier prices
Contracts that renew on autopilot with annual price rises no one questions.
Labour that doesn't match demand
Rotas built on habit rather than data, over-staffing quiet shifts and stretching busy ones.
Drifting food and drink GP
Portioning, spec and wastage quietly eroding margin week after week.
Invisible transaction costs
Card fees, delivery commissions and surcharges rarely reviewed in detail.
Subscription creep
A stack of software and services that grew over time and never got audited.
Unmeasured waste
Stock loss and spoilage treated as a cost of doing business rather than a fixable leak.
A hands-on route to more profit
Full cost-base audit
We map every cost line, benchmark it and flag exactly where you're overpaying.
Supplier renegotiation
We test the market and renegotiate terms, often using the wider Profit Clinic buying network.
Labour modelling
We build rotas around real demand so you protect service while cutting unnecessary hours.
GP recovery
We tighten specs, portions and waste controls to bring food and beverage margins back to target.
Fee and utility switching
We review card, energy and service contracts and move you onto better terms.
Waste and stock control
We put simple systems in place to measure and cut shrinkage and spoilage.
What good looks like
3-7%
Typical reduction in total cost base
£1000s
Recovered from fees and contracts annually
2-4pts
Improvement in food and beverage GP
0
Compromise on guest experience
How we deliver it
- 1
Audit
We gather your cost data and benchmark every line against where it should be.
- 2
Prioritise
We rank savings by value and speed, starting with the easiest wins.
- 3
Negotiate & switch
We renegotiate, switch suppliers and implement controls alongside you.
- 4
Protect
We put reporting in place so costs stay under control long term.
5x Return Guarantee
This work sits inside the 45-Day Commercial Review. If the review doesn't identify commercial opportunities worth at least five times our fee, we refund the cost of the review. The Commercial Growth Blueprint it produces is yours, to implement with your own team or alongside us.
Questions, answered
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