Case Study: YO! Sushi cuts IT costs 40% and gains always-on collaboration with Microsoft Office 365

Sushi Brand Swaps On-Premises Systems for Cloud and Cuts Costs by 40 Per Cent

YO! Sushi, a UK restaurant brand with more than 60 sites and about 150–160 users, faced aging on‑premises Exchange and Office systems that were reaching capacity and required costly replacements. IT manager Billy Waters needed a more cost‑effective, always‑on solution and wanted collaboration tools such as an intranet to support managers and remote staff without investing in a new server estate.

Working with partner IMGROUP, YO! Sushi adopted Microsoft Office 365 (including SharePoint Online), giving staff secure, mobile access to email, calendars and documents and a ready‑made platform for an intranet. The cloud move simplified management, provided a 99.9% uptime SLA and predictable annual costs, and is expected to cut annual IT running and replacement costs by about 40% while enabling future cloud migrations.

Yo! Sushi

Billy Waters

IT Manager