A butcher's counter that finally knows its own margin
Harborne & Sons
Four shops, three generations, and no idea which cuts actually made money. We wired the scales into the till and gave them yield tracking.
- +6.2ptgross margin
- 4 minto trace a full batch
- 12wholesale accounts automated
The challenge
Harborne & Sons had run on approved scales and a cash register for thirty years. Prices were calculated mentally from the scale display, traceability lived in a paper ledger, and allergen labels were handwritten.
They knew their turnover precisely and their margin not at all — because the yield from a carcass varies, and nobody had ever measured it.
What we built
We integrated their existing Avery Berkel scales directly into a new touch POS, so weight and price flow into the sale without keying. Every delivery is recorded against a supplier batch, every breakdown records the yield, and every sale ties back through the batch to the animal.
Labels now print to Natasha's Law requirements automatically, and the wholesale side — twelve restaurant standing orders previously taken by phone — runs from the same system.
The outcome
Within a quarter they had discovered that two popular lines were being sold at a loss once trim was accounted for, and repriced them. Gross margin rose 6.2 points on the same turnover.
A supplier recall that would previously have taken a fortnight of ledger-reading now takes four minutes.
We had been in business for thirty years and could not have told you which cuts made money. Within three months of switching on we found two lines we were selling at a loss. That conversation alone paid for the system.