The Shift from Post-Game Analysis to Real-Time Margin Control
Finance directors in the hospitality sector are moving away from the traditional month-end reconciliation model. Waiting thirty days to discover that a dairy price hike or a butchery yield error gutted your gross profit is no longer a viable way to run a multi-site group. When a business scales from three sites to thirty, the visibility gap between the central finance office and the kitchen floor often widens, leading to "margin creep" that goes unnoticed until it is too late to recover.
