Aprons, towels, floor mats, restroom service, linens. A typical mid-size restaurant signs a 5-year uniform contract and never reads it again — while the monthly bill creeps up 4–6% a year and surcharges multiply.
Restaurants get billed for floor mat rental at rates where buying outright pays back in 4–8 months. Almost no one runs the math.
Closed for Thanksgiving? Hurricane day? Slow January? You're still paying the full weekly minimum unless you negotiated reconciliation.
Vendor-set replacement rates run 3–5× actual cost. Without a contractual cap, this line item alone can run thousands a year.
Most contracts let vendors add surcharges 'at company discretion.' Restaurants typically don't notice until they total 8–12% of the bill.
A 14-unit restaurant group thought their uniform contract was 'just one of those fixed costs.' It wasn't.
Read the full story →Yes, in two ways. First, multi-location restaurant groups often have inconsistent pricing across locations from the same vendor. Second, exclusivity clauses can technically cover any future location you open. We catch both.
Same vendors typically. We audit it all in one pass — uniforms, aprons, towels, linens, mats, restroom, all of it.
In our experience, no. Vendors take written disputes seriously because the alternative is losing the account. We've never seen a dispute lead to service changes.
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