Every café, restaurant and hotel works daily with packaging: beer kegs, beverage crates, wine boxes, reusable containers. They arrive with deliveries and go back with the next shipment. Simple, right?
In reality, it's quite different. Kegs disappear, crates are forgotten, and nobody knows exactly what's outstanding with which supplier. The result: hidden costs that add up to thousands of euros per year.
The cost of lost packaging
Let's make it concrete. An average hospitality business with 2 locations works with 3 to 5 suppliers. Per supplier, there are continuously 20 to 50 items out on loan. The value per item varies:
- 50L beer keg: €30 deposit
- 20L beer keg: €30 deposit
- Beer crate: €3.90 per crate
- Roll container: €100 per unit
If you lose just 5 items per month — a conservative estimate — that's quickly €100-200 per month. Per year, that's €1,200-2,400 in pure preventable loss. For larger operations with multiple locations, this rises to €5,000-10,000 annually.
Why does it go wrong?
Most hospitality businesses track packaging with pen and paper, a WhatsApp group, or a shared spreadsheet. This fails for three reasons:
- Registration gets skipped — During a busy lunch or evening shift, staff forget to record the delivery. One missed entry is enough to throw the balance off.
- No real-time overview — The spreadsheet only gets updated at the end of the week. By then, nobody remembers exactly what came in.
- No verification on returns — Empty kegs go back with the next delivery, but nobody checks whether the count matches what the supplier recorded.
The solution: register it in the moment
The key is simple: register every packaging movement the moment it happens. Not later, not tomorrow, but now. With a mobile app that captures a registration in 5 seconds, the barrier to tracking disappears.
That's exactly why we built Reggy. One tap for your staff, complete overview for you as the business owner. No training needed, no complex setup.
What's the payoff?
Customers who switch from spreadsheets to Reggy see an average 80% reduction in packaging loss within the first month. It's not because the system is magic — it's because consistent registration becomes the standard instead of the exception.
The investment? From €10 per month. The savings? Many times that. Most hospitality businesses recover their Reggy investment in the first week.