Turning store audits into a network-wide execution lift
A national quick-service restaurant franchise had hundreds of stores and no independent way to know if campaigns were actually live on the shop floor. Monthly execution audits gave them the answer, store by store.
Head office could see sales. It could not see the shop floor.
Franchise stores are only as strong as their weakest execution: an outdated menu board or a self-order kiosk with no imagery quietly undercuts a national campaign, and sales data alone will not tell you where that is happening.
Four categories, tracked store by store for eleven months
Every store was audited monthly against the same 12 touchpoints, rolled up into four execution categories, so the client could see exactly which parts of the business were improving and which were not.
Drive-thru's 26-point jump shows what happens when field teams get a specific, ranked fix list every month instead of a general instruction to "do better."
In-store is the one category that slipped, traced to inconsistent rollout of campaign resets and missing imagery at self-order kiosks.
Every province closed the gap
Provincial audits, tracking the share of stores meeting the 75% alignment bar, showed every region moving in the same direction between May 2024 and January 2025.
Our execution intelligence method
The same four-step process behind this result, adapted to your store footprint, your standards, and your reporting cadence.
Audit
Score every store, every month, against a consistent checklist of defined execution touchpoints.
Evidence
Capture photographic, geo-tagged evidence of exactly what's on the ground, not just a pass or fail score.
Rank
Roll scores up into category and regional views, and rank the lowest-aligned stores every cycle.
Fix
Hand field and operations teams a specific, prioritised action list so effort goes where it matters most.
Know what's actually happening in your stores?
If head-office data is lagging behind the shop floor, let's find out exactly which stores, categories, or regions need attention first.
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