Why Food Businesses Struggle?

A food business is 'data-heavy'... You thought a food business was about managing food, but it's about managing lots of data, people, suppliers, nutritional data, allergies, prices, BOMs, bulk recipes, yields, wastage, portions, markups, costs, planning, etc, in real time, every day. A good food system must manage lots of accurate information without the friction of large teams dealing with old information. If you have to do a post-mortem to figure out the state of your business, then find out how you can do this in real time.

Do most food companies actually make a profit?

I doubt it...

One reason for this, is what I call "The Emperor's New Clothes Mindset"...

... you see every other food company doing 'something', or charging '£x', or launching certain products...

And you think it MUST BE WORKING FOR THEM! So let's do that too.

You go along with the market; after all "they can't all be wrong"?

My client was convinced their pricing model was right, and the pricing was market-appropriate. IT WASN'T... after I set up proper systems, they were 33% under. No wonder business was a struggle.

If you want to stay in control of your food business, let's chat.

Do you want to grow a small stable, profitable business, or run a massive "loss machine"?

Efficient, effective, automated and accurate food business systems.