Case Study: Loudons reduces food costs from 33% to 15% and boosts gross profit with Access Group's Procure Wizard

Loudons - Customer Case Study

Loudons, a growing chain of café-restaurants in Edinburgh, was struggling with manual processes — spreadsheets for menu, labour and production costing and paper invoices — which made costing, stock control and visibility across sites slow and error-prone. They engaged the Access Group and implemented Access Procure Wizard to streamline procurement, menu costing and reporting and to empower site managers with one centralised system.

Using Access Procure Wizard from the Access Group, Loudons deployed modules for purchase-to-pay, menu costing, advanced stock, waste management, tills and scheduling, enabling a central production unit and expansion to multiple sites. The solution cut food cost of sales from 33% to 15%, increased GP by 7% (85% GP average, one unit at 88%), reduced labour costs by 7%, saved about 10 admin hours per week, tightened stock control and automated approvals and ordering.

Loudons

Douglas Humphrey

Director