Exeter Analytics provides independent financial intelligence, strategic benchmarking, and advisory services for multi-unit restaurant operators, private equity portfolios, and hospitality CFOs navigating a structurally compressed margin environment.
Independent analysis of the forces reshaping restaurant economics — from labor and benefits costs to consumer headwinds and margin compression. No sponsored research. No vendor bias.
The reported labor cost line on a restaurant P&L understates actual labor expense by 15–22% for most multi-unit operators. This analysis quantifies the full cost stack — visible wages, employer payroll taxes, benefits, recruitment, onboarding, and the compounding impact of turnover — and identifies where the highest-leverage cost reduction opportunities exist in 2026.
"We work with restaurant CFOs, PE operating partners, and franchise executives who need independent analysis — not a vendor pitch."
Exeter Analytics provides the kind of rigorous, data-driven advisory that major consulting firms deliver — focused exclusively on the restaurant and hospitality sector, and structured for the realities of multi-unit operators rather than Fortune 500 corporate clients.
Our work is typically engaged on a project or retainer basis by groups with 200+ employees who are making material decisions about labor, benefits, compensation structure, or capital allocation.
Data-driven reports, benchmarks, and frameworks. No sponsored content. No vendor influence. Designed to give restaurant finance teams the same quality of insight that enterprise companies buy from major consulting firms.
Exeter Analytics was founded on a straightforward observation: restaurant operators make billion-dollar decisions about labor, compensation, and benefits using data that is either unavailable, vendor-sponsored, or not specific to their segment of the industry.
We provide the financial intelligence, benchmarking, and advisory work that fills that gap — structured like a consulting engagement, delivered at the pace that operators actually need, and free from the conflicts of interest that compromise most industry research.
Our work has informed benefits strategy, labor cost restructuring, and capital allocation decisions for restaurant groups ranging from 200 to 35,000 employees across QSR, fast casual, and full service segments.
Most engagements begin with a 30-minute discovery call to determine fit and scope. No cost, no obligation, no pitch until you've seen the data.
We respond within one business day. All inquiries are confidential.