Case Study: Rustic Canyon Restaurant Group speeds month-end close and improves spend control with Ramp

How Ramp helped Rustic Canyon Restaurant Group promote a culture of financial awareness and responsibility

Rustic Canyon Restaurant Group, a California-based restaurant group with eight independently operated businesses, struggled with fragmented accounting and spend management across entities. The finance team was dealing with multiple payroll and POS systems, no shared bank accounts or cards, and a month-end close that took 10–15 business days. Rustic Canyon turned to Ramp for corporate cards, expense management, and reimbursements to create a more centralized, controllable financial process.

With Ramp, Rustic Canyon standardized spend controls, required employees to code transactions at purchase, streamlined vendor onboarding, and improved real-time visibility through QuickBooks integration. The results included a month-end close that is now 5–7 business days faster, 8–16 hours saved per week on receipt coding and tracking, reduced accounting headcount needs, and better financial accountability across the organization.

Rustic Canyon Restaurant Group

Derek Arnette

Controller