How Retail Zoo Collects Usage and Emissions Data while saving >$100k / year

Starting with Janine Allis' vision for Boost Juice in 2000, Retail Zoo has grown into Australia's leading multi-brand QSR company, with a vision to be the best high performance food franchise business in the world.

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But handling energy across this many locations is extremely hard.

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Retail Zoo faced 3 main challenges:

Data isn’t in one place

Even if one retailer has electricity and gas data exports, slow manual processes are needed to export and report LPG, embedded network and locations across regions, especially for carbon accounting.

Energy is a time suck

It's time consuming keeping 100+ energy accounts on competitive prices, avoiding price increases and opening newstores.

Reduce emissions while reducing costs

If a bill is over budget or the team wants to reduce usage and emissions, it’s near impossible to work out how.

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The Challenge:

Solutions to scale faster and track more

Reduce energy prices and usage automatically

• Operations needs to keep energy
prices & usage under control to keep 
stores profitable.

Reduce new store opening costs

• The property team needs to understand the genuine maximum demand (and how to reduce it) to reduce new store open costs and win more potential sites.

Source of truth for bills, budgets and payments

• Accounts and finance needs one dashboard and report of outstanding bills and what was owed on their energy to save time and ensure supply. Track sites against budgets to flag issues early.

Auto-track and export for emissions reporting

• Sustainability needs to automatically track and export for emissions reporting - no upload required.

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Results

Track energy data and emissions while reducing costs

Termina automatically extracts energy data across electricity, gas, LPG, and embedded networks (shopping centres) every month in a single platform for easy export.

All of Retail Zoo's energy data and admin in one place while procuring a 7.15% reduction in total gas and electricity costs for the group.

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What's Next

Reduce energy costs while reducing emissions

Termina has now procured a 100% renewable Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) for the Retail Zoo group, which means more savings while reducing emissions.