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What should QSR back-office software actually do for a franchise group?
It should keep recipes, pricing and stock identical across every location, and show you labour cost against sales in real time at both a venue and a group level. When recipes drift between locations, so does your cost of goods and your brand promise, often without anyone noticing until the numbers are already wrong.
- Recipes and menu pricing managed centrally and synced to every location, not maintained site by site.
- All items received in real time via AI invoice scanning, so ingredient costs update as prices move.
- Recipe costing down to the individual item, so every location works from the same margin picture.
How do I keep labour cost under control across different locations?
Keeping labour costs under control across multiple locations starts with one live view of every roster, sales result and wage cost. Loaded shows labour as a percentage of sales by site and across the whole group, so you can compare performance, spot overruns early and adjust staffing before they become an end-of-week surprise.
- Rosters built around real trading patterns, not a flat shift structure.
- Real-time labour cost as a percentage of sales, updated as the day unfolds.
- AU award-compliant penalty rates and overtime applied automatically, across every site.
How do I streamline purchasing across the entire network?
Centralise purchasing across every location so each venue orders from the same approved products from the same approved suppliers. Loaded gives your group one place to manage procurement, create repeat-order templates and compare what each site is buying and paying. With stock levels, invoices and supplier costs connected, you can reduce admin, catch price differences early and keep purchasing consistent across the network.
- AI predicts orders to help all of your venues avoid over and under-ordering.
- Tender and contract prices can be loaded and reviewed across every invoice at every venue.
- Consolidated purchasing reporting allows for robust and efficient procurement processes at head office.
How do I see performance across the group as well as site by site?
It's hard to know which of your locations are actually performing when each one is a separate login, a separate report, or a separate spreadsheet someone has to stitch together. Loaded pulls sales, labour and stock into one consolidated view across your whole group, so you can compare site to site and catch a problem location early, not months later.
- Single site and consolidated group reporting.
- Revenue, labour and COGS all driven from the same platform.
- Catch a problem location early, before it shows up as network churn.
What to look for in QSR management software
Do you know what your menu is really costing you?
QSR operators who move to Loaded see cost of goods drop by 8% on average — because every recipe is finally priced against what you're actually paying today, not last time you updated your menu.
Why QSR operators choose Loaded
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"Seeing forecast sales that match to the roster very much helps us keep labour costs at a certain percentage. Having live cost of goods and seeing any dishes that are outside of our cost threshold allows us to take action immediately. These two areas have saved us and made us a lot of money.
Frequently asked questions
Does Loaded work for franchise QSR operations?
Loaded isn't a franchise management platform itself - royalty reporting and multi-franchisee billing aren't built into Loaded directly. But if you're a franchise operator, Loaded still works well at the venue level: recipe consistency, real-time labour cost and stock control across every site you run, and it connects with the POS systems that handle your royalty reporting, so that side of the business stays covered.
How does Loaded keep recipes and pricing consistent across every location?
Recipes and menu pricing are managed centrally and pushed to every site, so every location works from the same numbers, not a spreadsheet that's gone out of date.
Can Loaded handle labour cost during rush-hour trading spikes?
Yes - rostering and real-time labour-to-sales tracking handle high-volume, fast-turnover trading patterns, not just steady all-day service.
Does Loaded manage stock and ordering across multiple QSR sites?
Yes - centralised purchase orders and stock tracking cover every site from one place, with standing order templates for regular items.
Will switching to Loaded slow down service at the counter or mean replacing our POS?
No - Loaded runs alongside your existing POS rather than replacing it, syncing data in the background, so there's no change to how your team takes orders or serves customers.
What does Loaded cost for a multi-site QSR or fast-casual group?
Team or Stock is $169/venue/month each; Hub (both, plus consolidated reporting across sites) is $249/venue/month, whether you run 3 sites or 20.