Pub Stocktaking & Performance Data Experts

Venners pub stocktakers, auditors and consultants work with some of the largest pub companies in the UK, helping to optimise operational processes and offer visibility.

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Pub Stocktaking, Auditing & Profit Protection Solutions

The UK pub industry in all its variety continues to profit from performance boosting practices like stocktaking and auditing.

No matter the type of business, whether food-led or wet-led, local or national, pub chain or independent, managed or tenanted, public house, free house, gastropub, country pub, theme pub, roadhouse, beer house or inn, they all need stock control.

Pub stocktaking is woven into the historic fabric of Venners’ 130 years as a company. To this day, we supply pub stocktaker and pub auditor services to a wide range of pub companies of differing sizes, from single site operators to some of the biggest British multi-site pub companies, including Marstons, Greene King and Shepherd Neame. Our stocktakers help pub operators:

Control stock

Optimise margins

Reduce wastage

Improve standards

Address losses

Boost profit

“Marstons and Venners have developed a successful long-standing relationship. Venners are an extension of our Profit protection and stock control team, providing expertise, support, and a flexibility over our nationwide estate. The wealth of experience and knowledge within the field based and support teams is invaluable.”

Marston's PLC

Head of Profit Protection & Stock Control

“Venners are a key line of defence at our busiest trading times, when operators rightly are focusing on trading, customers and standards in very condensed timeslots. We continue to see positive ongoing progression in total scores, the highest risk areas and individual scores in general.”

Stonegate Group

Spencer Bloomberg - Director of Risk

“We have been using Venners for our monthly external audit across our 8 venues. Their auditors allow us peace of mind when it comes to stock management. Great, thorough and reliable service!.”

Inda pubs

James Corbett- Owner and director

“We have used Venners stocktakers for over 10 years and we have always found their service professional, courteous and reliable. Venners are a crucial cog in our head office wheel and we could not recommend their services more highly.”

Heartstone Inns

James Birch - Managing Director

“We have found all of their team to be professional, hard working, and have a ‘can do’ attitude, which is refreshing and great to work with. Our in-house management teams appreciate the level of service at unit level and senior management really like the integrity of the reports. Proper company, proper job.”

Thorley Taverns

Philip Thorley - Director

“We have trusted Venners to carry out stocktakes at our pubs for over a decade. They have helped us in identifying ways to improve our profitability and control costs, and the detailed yet easy to understand reporting contains all the information that any hospitality business needs.”

Caldmore

Steve Whitlow - Operations Manager

“We are a community pub and none of the directors have any pub experience, so it’s been a huge help having Venners on our team and helping us to understand our stock controls, stock levels and margins.”

The Packhorse, South Stoke

Trevor - Chairman

How Venners Helps Pub Operators

Pub stocktaking

Improve food and drink profits with the help of our pub stock takes. Our pub stocktakers deliver standardised same-day stock take reports at each pub they visit, giving a full debrief and stock control action plan at the end of each stock take.

Pub compliance audits

Be confident that the standards you expect are being maintained across your managed and tenanted sites. Our compliance audits can include staff till use analysis, brand inspections, due dilligence checks, cash counts, banking checks and more.

Stock control training

Enhance stock control knowledge in your pubs by enrolling managers and staff on training. With multiple training options, choose from introductory to refresher courses that cover key learning topics like ‘understanding stock take results’.

Profit improvement consultancy

Achieve the revenue figures you should reasonably expect from your pubs. Get to the root of excessive stock losses, improve cash and card controls in your pub, introduce effective policies, eradicate theft and fraud, we cover it all.

Why choose Venners as your Pub Stocktakers?

Online reporting

Office support

Nationwide team

Corporate add-ons

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