Case study

How The Home Cooking Wood controls cost per event for catering

A wood-fired catering service that needed to know what each event cost. With Guava, every job has its own P&L.

100%
100%
Events with own P&L
+18%
+18%
Average margin per event
Auto
Auto
Quotes from real costs
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Every event was different and I didn't know if I was making money or losing it.

HC
The Home Cooking Wood
The Home Cooking Wood · Catering
The problem

Events with no cost control

{ "Every catering event was different": "different menus, quantities and ingredients. There was no way to know the real profit on each one." }

Quotes were done by feel, with no up-to-date real costs.

"Every event was different and I didn't know if I was making money or losing it."

— The Home Cooking Wood
Before and after
Before Guava
  • Quotes by gut feel
  • No P&L per event
  • Out-of-date ingredient costs
  • Real profit unknown
With Guava
  • Quotes based on real costs
  • P&L per event
  • Ingredients with updated prices
  • Real margin visible before accepting an event
The change

Every event, its own account

Guava lets you build a P&L for each catering event. Ingredient costs are up to date and quotes are generated from real data.

They now know if an event is profitable before accepting it, not after.

“Now every event has its own P&L. I know exactly what each catering job leaves me.”

HC
The Home Cooking Wood
The Home Cooking Wood · Catering

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