Case Study: Shake Shack achieves faster financial close and better forecasting with Workday Adaptive Planning

Cultural phenomenon Shake Shack deploys Workday to sustain its rapid growth

Shake Shack, the fast-growing hospitality brand with more than 300 locations worldwide, needed to support its IPO-era reporting demands and rapid expansion. Its finance and audit teams were struggling with paper-based, disconnected systems that made budgeting, forecasting, quarterly closes, and SOX compliance slow and manual. Shake Shack used Workday Adaptive Planning to create a single source of financial truth and better manage planning across the business.

Workday Adaptive Planning helped Shake Shack run budget and forecast cycles more efficiently, speed up board reporting, and streamline audits with searchable financial data and easier drill-downs. The results included quarterly closes cut from more than 10 days to 5 days, reduced budget prep time, and significantly less internal audit prep work. Workday Adaptive Planning also gave Shake Shack clearer visibility into financials and a stronger foundation for sustainable growth.

Shake Shack

Jessica Kast

Senior Manager of Internal Audit