Running a restaurant isn’t easy. You have rising food costs, labour shortages, fierce competition and changing customer preferences to contend with.

As the world’s largest food GPO, Entegra leverages its £32 billion in global purchasing power to negotiate cost savings on nearly everything you need to run your business. However, Entegra is more than just a GPO. Entegra is a full-service solution provider that helps you go beyond purchasing.

Here are six surprising ways we can improve your restaurant’s performance.

Inflation and Cost of Living Support

In the current economic climate, rising inflation and the cost of living are significant challenges for any restaurant. Entegra understands these pressures and offers comprehensive savings across your entire operation to help you stay competitive and profitable, including:

• Uniforms and Apparel
• Utilities Management
• Cleaning Chemicals and Supplies
• Catering Equipment
• Maintenance Services
• Office Supplies

Culinary support

How do you enhance your menu, stretch your ingredients, and cut food waste? Our culinary experts can offer your commercial kitchen a range of solutions including:

• Menu cost analysis that helps you optimise your food costs and margins.
• Operations evaluations that help you improve your kitchen efficiency and productivity.
• Time and motion studies that help you streamline your workflows and processes.
• Recipe development and testing that help you innovate and introduce new menu items.
• Menu engineering and design that help you optimise your menu layout, presentation, and profitability.

Training and workforce support

With the cost of labour – and the difficulty finding workers – it's time to get inventive to solve your labour challenges. Entegra can offer:

• In-house culinary support from Entegra's team of chefs and foodservice experts.
• Temporary labour through Entegra's competitive contracts with staffing agencies.
• Strategies for employee engagement, retention, and recognition.

Data and analytics

At every stage of the procurement process, you’ll have Entegra’s Beagle platform supporting your team. From purchasing to optimising to auditing and daily management, with the new Entegra Beagle you will have access to:

• Price sensitive order guides and shopping lists to ensure savings are achieved at the point of order.
• Flash reports breaking down your revenue and expenditure.
• Recommendations for greater savings through our lost opportunities report.
• Dashboards displaying commodity price movements.

CSR support and waste management

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is not only good for the planet, but also good for your business. Customers today are more conscious of the social and environmental impact of their food choices, and they expect restaurants to share their values and commitments. Entegra can work with you to meet and exceed your CSR goals by helping you to:

• Reduce food waste with our waste management suppliers and advisory services.
• Develop plant-forward menus.
• Track and verify the origin, quality, and safety of your food products, adding supply chain traceability improvements.
• Source sustainable packaging to reduce your waste and use of plastic.
• Source eco-certified and organic ingredients that meet the highest standards of environmental and social responsibility.
• Work with EcoVadis certified suppliers who actively track their sustainability performance.

Entegra is more than a GPO; we’re your business improvement partner. Whether you need help with energy management, CSR support, culinary support, or training/workforce support, Entegra has the cost-savings and operational solutions to help you maximise your restaurant’s profitability.

Contact us about putting Entegra’s purchasing power and business performance improvement solutions to work for you.

*Savings based when compared to supplier list prices