Case Study: Pomegranate Hospitality achieves pandemic-era profitability and real-time cost control with MarginEdge

Pomegranate Hospitality uses real-time data from MarginEdge to navigate 2020

Pomegranate Hospitality, owner of Safta (Denver) and Saba (New Orleans), faced the sudden revenue collapse of 2020 and had to pivot quickly to pickup and shipped items, packaging and new portion sizes. Director of Operations Amanda Quintal had implemented MarginEdge in January 2020 to gain real-time data and move off Excel, giving her team the visibility and tools needed to manage costs and empower operators during the pandemic.

MarginEdge’s Recipe Costing, Inventory, Category Budgets and Price Alerts gave Pomegranate Hospitality fast, accurate food-costing for new menu formats, lightweight tablet inventories with automatic pricing exports, granular tracking across ~35 budget categories, and alerts that caught vendor pricing errors. The result: managers could make smarter, faster decisions, inventories and budgets became actionable, and the group remained profitable through the crisis—Amanda says the Recipe tool “saved us this year” and MarginEdge directly enabled that outcome.

Pomegranate Hospitality

Amanda Quintal

Director of Operations