How Whistle Punks streamlined procedures across all venues using growyze
Whistle Punks is a multi-venue hospitality business offering “Urban Axe Throwing” to patrons across the UK (yes, it’s a thing!). Prior to finding growyze, the business had struggled to implement procedures and unify how they managed food and beverage stock control across venues.
This meant hours were being wasted, with multiple staff members trying to get a handle on the business’s complicated, fragmented systems and that too much time was being spent on (what should have been) simple tasks.
Here, we speak to Chris Poole, Head of Operations at Whistle Punks and his team mate, Jack [surname?], Manager of Whistle Punks London, to find out how growyze has benefited their organisation.
I really enjoy using growyze and I think it's really really intuitive. Stocktake saved us a lot of time, saved hours of labour and is less daunting...And ordering is even much easier than on Amazon.
Challenges overcome by using growyze
- The Head of Operations now has visibility across all venues in the Whistle Punks chain
- Each location has a robust stock control management system that’s easy to use day-to-day
- Procedures have been implemented (and unified) across all venues
- Business-wide improved accuracy and reporting
How Whistle Punks streamlined procedures across all venues using growyze
“I come from a background of managing large F&B chains so I’ve almost always had access to enterprise-grade tools for things like stock control. While they can be useful, these systems often leave a lot to be desired, and can be clunky for teams “on the ground” to get their heads into” explains Chris, Head of Operations at Whistle Punks.
“At Whistle Punks there were originally a lot of manual, “pen and paper” heavy systems in place which were disjointed across the different locations. I was looking for a better system, something that wouldn’t be complicated and that we could rely on for accuracy. I didn’t want the team to be spending too much time on tasks like stock take and ordering, and I knew technology could help.”
“When I first started using growyze I realised we could quickly move away from these rudimentary systems and Excel documents. growyze is one seamless ordering and reconciliation system. It increases our accuracy and means we can trust the reporting that we see. Teams are suddenly finding it much faster to complete simple tasks such as stock take. This has been hugely beneficial to both our venues, and our accounting teams.”
Chris also explains how the platform has been easy to adopt; something that’s essential to both him and his team. “The platform is very user friendly and so easy to navigate, it removes all the noise you find with other providers and focuses on what is important.”
This is echoed by Chris’ colleague Jack, a venue manager who uses growyze daily: "I really enjoy using Growyze and I think it's really really intuitive. Stocktake saved us a lot of time, saved hours of labour and is less daunting...And ordering is even much easier than on Amazon."
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