Customer Story

Lazy Bear: How A Michelin-starred Restaurant Maintains Creative Focus With AP Automation

“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.”

David Barzelay
Chef And Owner
Healthcare

How West Harbor Healthcare Spends Less Time On Invoices and More on What Matters Most with Plate IQ

“It’s easy to use, and I just think it’s super efficient. I just really like it.”

Mary Herrington
Accounting Manager
Restaurants

How Quick-Service Restaurant Group IRMG Achieved Efficiency At Scale

I can’t quantify the time savings, but Plate IQ transformed everything…
Matt Lau
Finance and Operations
Hotels

How WHG Companies Created New AP Efficiencies for 60+ Hotel Locations

WHG Companies builds, franchises, and manages hotels in small towns across the country. Here’s how they efficiently manage AP for 60+ locations with Plate IQ.

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Sarah Zuehlke
Senior Staff Accountant
Country Clubs

How Northstone Country Club Eliminated Manual Invoice Processing

“If I took Plate IQ away from them, the team would be unhappy, very unhappy. Some of them would be livid.”

Steve Foster
CFO
Plate IQ Clients Clutch Coffee Bar Operators pose in shop
Plate IQ Card

How Clutch Coffee Bar Fuels Growth with The Plate IQ Card

“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.”

Jake Vandermeer
CFO
Restaurants

How Karl Strauss Pairs Hand-Crafted Beer with Automated Accounts Payable

“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.”

Karli-Mae Ochoa
Senior Accountant & Financial Analyst
Country Clubs

How The Club at Ravenna Streamlined Invoices and Bill Payments With AP Automation

“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.”

Stephanie Liby
Accounting Manager
Accounting

How MCM CPAs & Advisors Deliver More Strategic Value With Automated AP

“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.”

Katie West
Client Accounting Services Manager, MCM
Hotels

How Golder Hospitality Is Powering Growth with AP Automation

“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.”

Shelby Tufenk
Controller, Golder Hospitality
Restaurants

How Tatsu-Ya Scales with Invoice Automation and Bill Pay

“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.”

Gary Rook
VP of Finance & Human Resources
Restaurants

How Atelier Crenn Uses Plate IQ to Make Space for Creativity

For these world-class restaurants, Plate IQ allows their managers and chefs to spend more time in the kitchen and the dining room — and less time in the office.
Restaurants

Lazy Bear: How A Michelin-starred Restaurant Maintains Creative Focus With AP Automation

“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.”

David Barzelay
Chef And Owner
Restaurants

How Cava and Zoës Kitchen Teamed Up to Streamline AP

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.
Restaurants

How B&G Food Manages 150 Restaurants’ Invoices 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.
Accounting

How Books To Go Made AP “Slick” with 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.”

Jessica Glenn
Bookkeeper
Restaurants

How Cherry Lane Built a "Restaurant For Restaurant People" with Plate IQ and COGS-Well

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

How J Ely Processes Invoices 83% Faster While Gaining More Visibility

“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.”

Joe Ely
Manager

How Del Frisco's Gets Real-Time Data From Their Invoices

“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.”

Juan Salas
CTO
Restaurants

Mixt Greens Creates a Healthier Back Office with Plate IQ

“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.”

David Silverglide
CEO & Founder
Restaurants

Tender Greens Gains Efficiency, Reduces Costs During Expansion

“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.”

Sean Skuro
VP of Finance and Accounting
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