“Almost all the expense reporting for our stores is automated. When we set up a new store, we’ll issue a group of new Plate IQ vCards and give them to the new vendors. Each vendor charges a card that is already classified, and it gets exported to our ERP journaled to that expense category. We don’t have to think about it.”

“Plate IQ has been phenomenal. No more paper shuffling back and forth, no more packets coming in from the restaurant, and no more coding because everything’s pre-coded. So it saves everybody time. We all love it.”

“Managers can approve invoices from their phones, wherever they are, and have vendors send bills directly to the platform. So it's been a lot more efficient. I spend so much less time doing AP processing because of the transition to Plate IQ.”

“Plate IQ Bill Pay is just so much easier than checks. It’s just click, Save, and you’re done. You can link an invoice to its payment so they go out together. It’s probably halved the time we spend on payments.”

"One thing I really liked about Plate IQ was that it understood hospitality. We’re a unique industry. And so whenever we're looking at vendors, we need it to be a vendor that understands the space, because we're an industry that doesn't shut down."

“We thought that every four to five locations we would have had to hire a new employee just for data entry level. With Plate IQ, we're at the point where we don't feel like we even need to backfill that first position."

"Our bookkeepers have never physically been to the restaurant for bookkeeping. As a chef/owner, I personally spend no more than 15 minutes a week on bookkeeping. If it weren't for PlateIQ, our team would probably spend 12–15 hours per week."

Zoës Kitchen and Cava are 2 major fast casual chains that merged in 2018. Here's how they merged their AP systems into a single seamless operation with Plate IQ.

How a QSR empire managed to cut more than 90% of their invoice processing time by moving from a manual workflow to Plate IQ.

"If we’re doing a client’s payables, we tell them that this is what we use. And then we just wrap the Plate IQ cost into our fee. It’s worth it for all of us. The customers see it, too."

Cherry Lane Ventures was looking for an invoice automation & inventory management solution that integrated seamlessly together. The answer: Plate IQ + COGS-Well.

"It used to take us 30 seconds to enter a single-item invoice. Longer ones took half an hour. With Plate IQ, both invoices take 5 seconds."

"Out of the four or five hundred invoices that we process weekly between all our brands, there may be 2 or 3 that need manual intervention. That success rate has really ensured that we have reliability in our data and consistency for our operators."

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"With Plate IQ, we've been able to automate almost the entire AP process and get incredibly granular data that informs and improves all of our purchasing, costing, and accounts payable decisions."

"When I started at Tender Greens, our AP department had three people. Today, even as our business grew from 17 to 24 locations, Plate IQ has cut our bookkeeping costs in half — and allowed us to move forward with an AP team of just one employee."