L.P. Enterprises helps small and medium size restaurant groups streamline purchasing with precision, insight, and proven expertise – saving time, reducing costs, and protecting brand standards since 2001.

Chances are you have spent years honing those skills revolving around the ownership, operation and management of restaurants and hotels. An OPE has spent his years focusing on foodservice purchasing, negotiations and problem solving. You could master the intricacies of that profession, but is it worth your time?

Most of us are unwilling to invest the time necessary to learn a separate discipline. After all, that’s why we hire accountants.In looking at the large corporate players in our industry, we usually find that each has a purchasing department with a full staff of experts to maximize bottom-line results. Now, the same bottom-line expertise is available to small- and medium-sized restaurant chains – even independents – in the form of an OPE. In tough times, this can be a powerful survival mechanism.