allmanhall prove their Worth and secure a significant contract extension from happy clients
Overview
Worth School initially engaged allmanhall after a benchmark demonstrated that, by partnering with the food procurement experts to manage food and catering-related purchasing, they could benefit from cost savings of 13.93%.
In addition to cost savings, the School’s objectives included administrative and process efficiencies, and access to expert operational catering consultancy.
After the most recent review of the partnership, Worth School expressed their satisfaction with allmanhall’s support, and extended the contract once again.
“I have worked with allmanhall since appointing them in 2014, and I have certainly seen the financial savings, and their ongoing effective mitigation of supplier price increases.”
– Emma Hickmott, Domestic Bursar, Worth School
Background
Worth School is a co-educational Roman Catholic boarding and day independent school for pupils from 11 to 18 years of age, in West Sussex. The School has over 600 pupils, of whom 300 are full boarding. They operate a very busy and complex in-house catering service.
Worth School initially engaged allmanhall after a benchmark demonstrated that, by partnering with the food procurement expert to manage food and catering related purchasing, they could benefit from cost savings of 13.93% as well as administrative efficiencies and access to support.
What did the client need?
Worth School’s objectives were to achieve:
- Food cost savings, as demonstrated in allmanhall’s benchmark
- Streamlining of controls within the catering department, to improve the service levels and consistency of their foodservice offering
- Administrative savings for both the catering and finance teams
- Retention of selected valued suppliers, whilst ensuring they remained competitive and were integrated into allmanhall’s supplier management framework and catering software platform
What was the result?
After several year of a successful partnership, and to ensure due diligence, Worth School undertook a full review of the allmanhall relationship. More recently they undertook a second evaluation.
Both reviews resulted in contract extensions and strengthening of the existing partnership, with allmanhall continuing to prove their expertise via impressive results and to deliver for Worth School:
- Supplier tendering and price mitigation, which identified a further 11.53% improvement
- Continuous proactive supplier management to drive consistent and ongoing benefit for the School – housekeeping spend is now also managed by allmanhall
- Financial control and visibility to the team, enabling administrative efficiencies and a reduction in volume of invoices, from 2000 per year to less than 120 per year
- Inputting of 198 recipes, facilitating more accurate costing, stocktaking, wastage tracking and allergen management
- A labelling package that ensured full compliance when Natasha’s Law came into force in 2021
The savings delivered by allmanhall contributed to supporting the School’s ground-breaking refurbishment of their dining facilities.
After the most recent review of the partnership, Worth School have expressed their satisfaction with allmanhall’s performance and the results being achieved, agreeing to yet another extension of this successful relationship.
What did the client say?
“I have worked with allmanhall since appointing them in 2014, and I have certainly seen the financial savings, and their ongoing effective mitigation of supplier price increases. I also greatly value the administrative time savings.
Nothing is too much trouble for allmanhall’s support team to assist us with, and I really see them as an extension of our catering operations.
The support and reassurance that this partnership brings has allowed me to focus on enhancing our pupils’ dining experiences and environment to a new level of excellence”.
– Emma Hickmott, Domestic Bursar, Worth School