The Dave's Hot Chicken JV adds 180 restaurants across 10 countries on top of Zizzi, ASK Italian, Coco di Mama, and Boojum, real growth, alongside a real £2.7m operating loss this year from Dave's launch costs. That combination, fast multi-brand expansion plus margin pressure on the core estate, is exactly when procurement complexity compounds fastest.
Adjust to your actual estate size, this is an estimate, not a published Azzurri figure.
A real result
One Supy customer took food cost from 39% to 33%, and variance from 15% to 9%, in three months, purely from connecting procurement and inventory into one system instead of running them separately across brands. That's the same structural problem five brands under one back-of-house creates: more SKUs, more vendors, more places for the numbers to drift apart.
A JV this size means new supplier relationships, new sites, and a new brand's supply chain landing on top of four existing ones, at the exact moment margin is already under pressure from launch costs. Procurement systems get re-evaluated in windows like this, not in steady-state quarters.
Neil Westley's background is Head of Food and Drink Procurement before this role, the title most directly on-target for a procurement conversation found anywhere in this build.
No deck, just a look at where a connected system would actually sit across five brands and how the rollout changes the vendor list.
Reply to set up a call →Personalized off the real JV announcement and the real Head of Purchasing title, not a mail-merge guess.