Case Study: a leading quick-service restaurant brand achieves $13M in savings with Maine Pointe

a leading quick-service restaurant brand saves $13.14M with Maine Pointe

A leading quick-service restaurant brand faced rising food and paper costs that had climbed past 30% of revenue. With no competitive sourcing process and contracts unfavorable to the operator, its procurement function was reactive. Maine Pointe was engaged to help transform strategic procurement and build sustainable category management capability.

Maine Pointe conducted a full spend diagnostic and ran competitive sourcing events using AI-embedded procurement technology across 17 categories. Through should-cost modeling and direct negotiation, they achieved $13.14M in annualized savings. Maine Pointe's solution reduced freight rates by 17%, packaging costs by 13.5%, and advanced the client's procurement maturity, enabling them to run category reviews independently.