Innovation that drives profitability for hospitality.
Quantaco has once again been recognised on the Financial Review BOSS Most Innovative Companies List for 2025, a milestone that reflects our mission to make hospitality more profitable, sustainable, and data-driven.
This recognition isn’t about innovation for innovation’s sake. It’s about how we help venues make smarter decisions, run stronger operations, and unlock lasting profitability through the right mix of technology, insights, and expertise.
From Innovation to Impact
Hospitality has always been a fast-moving industry. Costs fluctuate, demand changes overnight, and operators often make dozens of decisions before lunch. That’s why our focus has always been on giving venues the visibility and control to act in real time, not weeks later when the opportunity has passed.
The Quantaco platform brings together everything an operator needs, financial data, labour insights, inventory, and sales, into one connected ecosystem across Cooking the Books, Salesline, CashUp, and Q Insights.
This approach is grounded in what we call our Profitability Playbook: helping operators identify the key levers that influence performance, measure their impact, and make small, data-backed changes that add up to significant gains.
For venues like the Australian Hotel Ballina and Great Southern Hotel Berry, that framework has transformed operations.
“We’ve lifted net margins by 8–12% in Ballina and 6–9% in Berry, not by cutting corners, but by seeing where we could make better decisions,” says operator Mitch Rose. “Quantaco gave us clarity we didn’t have before, and that’s been the difference.”
Technology That Moves With the Industry
Over the past year, our innovation team has focused on the practical applications of AI, automation, and data analytics to solve real hospitality challenges.
- AI forecasting now adjusts for regional and seasonal factors, giving operators more confidence in their rostering and purchasing decisions.
- Anomaly detection tools automatically flag unusual cost or cash flow trends, helping venues protect profit before issues arise.
- Automation in accounting and reconciliation has reduced manual admin, allowing operators to focus on people and service, not paperwork.
Every improvement serves one purpose: to help venues make better decisions faster, with data they can trust.
Innovation Built by and for Hospitality
Our innovations don’t come from a boardroom, they come from the frontline.
Through our Frontline Innovation Portal, team members across Customer Success, Data, and Product log ideas and insights they encounter while supporting venues. Those ideas are reviewed monthly, tested in sandbox environments, and scaled when they prove their value.
This open innovation model ensures the problems we solve are the ones that matter most to our clients. It’s why we continue to evolve features like OCR scanning, supplier integrations, and data governance tools, because they come directly from venue feedback.
Proven Results Across the Industry
The AFR recognition is an outcome of consistent, measurable impact across our clients.
- Ballina & Berry Hotels – up to 12% net margin uplift through data-led recipe control and labour optimisation.
- Brickfields Hospitality – saved $60,952 in a single quarter by improving supplier visibility and waste control.
- Calligeros Hotel Group – reduced labour costs and improved cash flow accuracy through platform automation.
Every success story strengthens the feedback loop between innovation and outcome, and reinforces our belief that profitability should be predictable, not accidental.
Looking Ahead
With 25% of revenue reinvested into innovation, we’re continuing to push forward. Our partnership with the University of Sydney is already shaping next-generation tools, from demand prediction to pricing optimisation, and we’re expanding integrations to bring even more data sources into the platform.
As we grow, our goal stays the same: to empower every hospitality business, from independent pubs to large groups, with the tools, data, and confidence to improve profitability, one decision at a time.
“Our innovation is only meaningful if it helps our clients succeed. Every new feature, every integration, and every insight we build is designed to give venues a clearer path to profit.”
— Mark Brixton, CEO, Quantaco