Case Study: The Plant Cafe achieves $150K in labor savings and real-time food-cost visibility with Ottimate

For this organic cafe, adding Plate IQ was only natural

The Plant Cafe, a San Francisco–based organic café group with seven Bay Area locations, struggled with a time-consuming, manual accounts-payable process that required multiple AP staff and pulled its CFO away from strategic work. To address rising and volatile food costs and slow invoice processing, The Plant Cafe turned to Ottimate and its AP automation solution to streamline invoice capture and coding.

Ottimate implemented a paperless AP automation system that digitized and auto-coded invoices into the company’s accounting system, routing the right data to the right people for real-time purchasing and menu decisions. As a result, The Plant Cafe saved $150,000 in labor in the first year, freed the CFO to focus on strategy, gained on-the-fly recipe costing, and equipped managers with immediate alerts to price changes — tangible improvements delivered by Ottimate.

The Plant Cafe