More profit from every pint and every plate.
Pubs are squeezed from every side: duty, energy, wages and food costs. Profit Clinic helps independent pubs and inns find the margin that is already in the business, with the commercial discipline of a large group and the understanding of people who have run pubs.
Profit Clinic helps established independent hotels, pubs, restaurants, hospitality groups and holiday parks improve profitability through commercial analysis and practical operational reviews.
This can be a standalone project scoped to what you actually need, or part of a wider Commercial Review. There is no one-size-fits-all package.
- 25+ years in hospitality
- Wet and dry expertise
- 5x return guarantee
Where pub profit usually hides
In most pubs we look at, the money is not lost in one place. It is a little on wet GP, a little on stock loss, a few extra hours on the rota and a supplier price that has crept up for three years.
We work through each of these with you, benchmark your figures, and put the fixes in order of impact so you see results quickly.
What we look at
Wet GP
Pricing, pour, wastage and range.
Food GP
Menu engineering and kitchen margins.
Labour
Rotas that match trade, not habit.
Stock loss
Cellar management, stocktakes and shrinkage.
Suppliers
Better terms through group buying power.
Rooms
Pricing and occupancy for inns with letting rooms.
Where profit quietly slips away
Rising costs
Energy, wages and supplier increases eating into thin margins.
Slipping wet GP
Price rises absorbed instead of passed on, and wastage nobody tracks.
Food that does not pay
Menus that look busy but do not make money.
Rotas out of step
Too many staff on quiet sessions, too few on busy ones.
Unexplained stock loss
Variance on stocktakes that is accepted as normal.
No clear numbers
Accounts that arrive too late to change anything.
A hands-on route to more profit
Free Profit Discovery
A no-obligation look at where your biggest opportunities are.
30 day Commercial Review
A full review of your pub with a prioritised action plan.
Revenue growth
Pricing, range and menu changes that lift spend per head.
Cost reduction
Removing waste from labour, stock and overheads.
Buying power
Group-level supplier pricing for an independent pub.
Benchmarking
See how your GP and labour compare with similar pubs.
What good looks like
25+ yrs
Hospitality experience in the team
30 days
To a full Commercial Review
5x
Return guarantee on the Commercial Review
Free
Profit Discovery to start
How we deliver it
- 01
Talk
A free Profit Discovery call about your pub.
- 02
Review
We look at your figures, cellar, menu and rota.
- 03
Plan
A clear list of changes, ranked by impact.
- 04
Deliver
We help you make the changes stick.
Available standalone or as part of the Commercial Review
You can engage Profit Clinic for this service on its own, or as part of the 30 day Commercial Review. If you choose the full review and we do not 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
Start with a free Profit Discovery. Three commercial observations and an estimated opportunity value, at no cost.
Book your free Profit DiscoverySpeak to Alex directly
Prefer a quick conversation? Message, call or email and we will scope what you need.
Do you work with free houses and tenanted pubs?
We work with independent pubs and inns. Get in touch and we can talk through how your agreement affects what can be changed.
What is a good wet GP for a pub?
It depends on your mix, but we use around 74% as a working beverage GP benchmark. See our UK hospitality benchmarks guide for more detail.
Do you visit the pub?
Yes. We visit venues across the UK, because the answers are usually behind the bar and in the cellar, not just in the accounts.
Can I just use one service?
Yes. Every service can be taken on its own, or you can start with the 30 day Commercial Review for the full picture.
