About Fresh
Purchasing
Fresh Purchasing provides its clients with powerful tools to help reduce costs and more efficiently manage their supply chain. Through extensive relationships with distributors, years of experience managing supply chains, and a thorough understanding of successful restaurant operations, we’re able to leverage these tools to streamline the purchasing process.
Essentially, we become your purchasing department by ensuring that you enter the best relationships, get the lowest prices, and ultimately have greater control of your supply chain. By outsourcing this function of your business, it allows your team to focus on their core duties while enabling you to tap into tools and experience that would not normally be available to restaurant businesses without heavy investment in a full purchasing department.
When we onboard new clients, our first step is a thorough spend analysis. We look at not only how much the business spends on products and target the obvious cost-saving opportunities, but we also do a cost comparison to the prices that other businesses in our purchasing group pay. This often helps bring to light opportunities that are frequently overlooked.
Our Purchasing
Group
Our relationships with multiple broad-line distributors allow us to access special pricing that clients would be unable to obtain directly. There is power in numbers, so by leveraging a large number of units in our client portfolio, we negotiate special pricing that benefits all of our clients.
Think about it this way: if you are running a quick service restaurant with 3-5 units, you probably aren’t getting the same prices as a business with 30 units. When you retain the services of Fresh Purchasing, you are joining a network of businesses who, when negotiating collectively, can access pricing that is often unattainable for each business individually.
Meet
Wayne
Wayne O'Quinn, C.P.M., A.P.P., has extensive purchasing experience with several multi-unit restaurant companies, most recently with CBRL Group, Inc. (Logan's Roadhouse, Inc. /Cracker Barrel Old Country Store) as the Director of Purchasing for Logan’s Roadhouse, Inc. During his time at Logan’s Roadhouse, Inc., O’Quinn gained a vast amount of experience and knowledge of Supply Chain Management by working hand-in-hand with both Logan’s Roadhouse, Inc. and Cracker Barrel Old Country Store’s purchasing teams. His managing suppliers and distribution networks that serviced over 700 restaurants and 300 suppliers, across 125 different commodity products, resulted in millions of dollars of savings and process improvements across the board.
As Planet Hollywood’s International Vice President of Purchasing, O’Quinn oversaw purchasing for 96 restaurants around the world and gained the unique international experience and knowledge needed to prepare him for the wide variety of products and scope of contract management.
O’Quinn has been in the restaurant industry for more than 20 years, spending the first 10 years gaining expertise in Operations as a General Manager and Regional Manager. He has personally managed more than 25 restaurants in his career, and that Operations experience enabled him to have personal, extensive knowledge and passion to transition smoothly into Purchasing.
Wayne has continued to grow within his field, earning both C.P.M. (Certified Purchasing Manager) and A.P.P. (Accredited Purchasing Practitioner) Accreditations. He has been happily married for 30 years, has four sons, and five grandchildren.