Industries We Serve
Cost Validation for Multi-Location Businesses
The Opportunity
Small errors, multiplied by every location.
Multi-location operators carry the same four recurring costs at every site, usually under regional or national contracts. That scale is exactly what makes benchmarking powerful: one correction, applied across the footprint, becomes a material number fast.
ICC's benchmark spans more than 30,000 data points, so we can compare your sites against a broad base and surface the outliers worth fixing first.
Where the Money Hides
What scale exposes
Across a multi-site footprint, one per-location billing error isn't a rounding issue — it repeats at every site and compounds every month. We compare your locations against a benchmark of more than 30,000 data points to surface the outliers first, then correct the utility, waste, telecom, and laundry charges driving the gap.
- Per-site utility and waste charges that vary without a good reason
- Uniform and laundry programs priced inconsistently across sites
- Telecom and connectivity duplicated location to location
- National contracts that were never benchmarked against actual usage
Your Next Step
Find out what you're overpaying
Send one recent invoice for a free, no-obligation cost validation — or run the numbers yourself in two minutes. Performance-based: you pay only when you benefit.
What We Validate Here
The categories that move the needle for you
Every engagement can span all four categories. For your sector, these usually carry the most opportunity.
Why It Adds Up
The odds favor finding something
of audits find an error or overcharge
data points in our benchmark
typical window to recover past overcharges
Upfront — performance-based; you pay only when you benefit
Work runs off-site against your invoices — no disruption to your operations.
The Bottom Line
Practical takes on the costs worth questioning
Steve Thompson's podcast, videos, and newsletter — real perspective on operating expenses, vendor billing, and protecting cash flow. Worth a listen before your next invoice.