Sector
Restaurants & takeaways
Card processing and energy are usually the two largest controllable costs in a food business, and both are typically set once and never revisited.
Audited in this order
- 01Card processing — effective rate across a high volume of low-value transactions
- 02Gas and electricity, which run at close to constant load through service
- 03EPOS and delivery-platform integration
- 04Telecoms, including whether the terminal still needs a line
What we look for
What tends to be wrong in restaurants & takeaways.
Specific to this sector, and drawn from how the contracts and meters actually behave rather than from a generic savings claim.
Low average transaction value punishes fixed per-item fees
A 5p authorisation fee on a £9 order is 0.55% before the percentage rate is applied. On a £70 restaurant bill it is 0.07%. The right pricing structure differs completely between the two.
Extraction and refrigeration set the electricity baseline
Load is high and flat rather than peaky, which changes which tariff shape suits the site.
Delivery platform commission is not our lane, but it changes the arithmetic
We note it in the report because it affects which card mix you actually process — but we do not claim to renegotiate it.
Priority order
Where the audit spends its time.
We work down this list. Lines further down still get checked, they just rarely move the number.
- 01Card processing — effective rate across a high volume of low-value transactions
- 02Gas and electricity, which run at close to constant load through service
- 03EPOS and delivery-platform integration
- 04Telecoms, including whether the terminal still needs a line
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