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The Loaded Academy

We're sharing everything we know about how hospitality businesses really make money. Drawing on 15 years of operating venues and building Loaded, our live sessions, recorded training and partner workshops cover the numbers, systems and habits behind high-performing venues, and how to put them into practice with Loaded.
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Execute

Regular, repeating sessions to make sure you get set up properly with Loaded — the right foundations for growing perfomance across your outlets.

Live workshop

Mastering Team, Roster & Timeclocks

An introduction to Loaded Team, Rosters & Timeclocks. In this session, we’ll cover setting up your team, creating rosters, and using the timeclock to accurately track labour costs.

Tue 6 Oct
1-1:30pm NZT | 11-11:30am AET
Repeats every Tuesday
Live Training

Recipe Creation & Live COGs tracking

In this session, we’ll cover creating recipes, managing ingredients, and linking items to your POS to ensure your profitability reporting is accurate and automated.

Wed 7 Oct
1-1:30pm NZT | 11-11:30am AET
Repeats every Wednesday
Live workshop

Streamline your Inwards Goods Process

Your introduction to Ordering & AI Invoice Processing in Loaded. Learn how to place orders, manage suppliers, and use AI to keep your stock accurate and gain live insights into profitability.

Thu 8 Oct
1-1:30pm NZT | 11-11:30am AET
Repeats every Thursday

Optimise

Using the information you are now seeing in Loaded to optimise your venue’s growth, margin and profitability.

Live workshop

The Perfect Stocktake

Your introduction to Stocktakes in Loaded. Learn how to run accurate stocktakes, manage variances, and tighten stock control so you can protect margins and improve profitability.

Fri 2 Oct
1-1:30pm NZT | 11-11:30am AET
Repeats every Friday
Live presentation

Better Counts. Sharper Margins - How to profit from your Stocktake

A practical session for hospitality operators & managers on what to do after the stocktake: how to run a repeatable investigation process to find (and fix) your margin draining culprits. Let's reduce waste, buy better & get rid of dead inventory. Built from real experience — this is the playbook for turning stocktake data from a mystery into margin wins.

Wed 7 Oct
3-3:45pm NZT | 12-12:45pm AET
One-off session

Accelerate

Whole-of-hospitality sessions to truly accelerate and operate best in class, delivered alongside our leading coaching and consulting partners.

New Features

Multi-site Team, On Costs & Multi-site COGs Report

A walk through of Loaded’s latest multi-site features: Multi-site Team, On Costs and the new Multi-site COGs Report. We’ll show you how to manage your team across venues, get a clearer view of your true labour costs, and see COGs data across multiple venues in one consolidated report.

Tue 6 Oct
11:30am-12pm NZT | 9:30-10am AET
Repeats every Tuesday
New Features

Early access feature demo: Shift Swapping

Join us for a live session to run through Shift Swapping, our latest new feature that's currently in Early Access. Team members can now swap and offer shifts directly from the Team App, with built-in eligibility checks, manager approvals, and automatic roster updates.

Tue 6 Oct
2-2:30pm NZT | 12-12:30pm AET
Repeats every Tuesday
New Features

Multi-site Team, On Costs & Multi-site COGs Report

A walk through of Loaded’s latest multi-site features: Multi-site Team, On Costs and the new Multi-site COGs Report. We’ll show you how to manage your team across venues, get a clearer view of your true labour costs, and see COGs data across multiple venues in one consolidated report.

Wed 7 Oct
3-3:30pm NZT | 1-1:30pm AET
Repeats every Wednesday
New Features

Early access feature demo: Shift Swapping

Join us for a live session to run through Shift Swapping, our latest new feature that's currently in Early Access. Team members can now swap and offer shifts directly from the Team App, with built-in eligibility checks, manager approvals, and automatic roster updates.

Thu 8 Oct
12-12:30pm NZT | 10-10:30am AET
Repeats every Thursday

Execute

Sessions to make sure you get set up properly with Loaded — the foundations every number after it depends on.

Live workshop

Mastering Team, Roster & Timeclocks

An introduction to Loaded Team, Rosters & Timeclocks. In this session, we’ll cover setting up your team, creating rosters, and using the timeclock to accurately track labour costs.

Tue 15 Sep
Recording

Optimise

Using the information you are now seeing in Loaded to optimise your venue’s growth, margin and profitability.

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Accelerate

Whole-of-hospitality sessions to truly accelerate and operate best in class, delivered by our approved partners.

Live Presentation

The Hospitality Profit Matrix

A hospitality business makes money by turning awareness into customers, customers into revenue, and revenue into profit once cost of goods and labour come off. Rich McLeod shows how small gains in average spend, cost of goods and labour can add more than $100,000 a year for one venue.

Wed 30 Sep
3-4pm NZT | 1-2pm AET
One-off session

Want a paid session for your whole team?

We run private sessions for your venues — same content, your numbers on the screen. Ask your success manager or drop us a line.