Running a restaurant, hotel or members club is relentless. Margins are thin, costs are
unpredictable, and there’s always something more urgent than reviewing your energy
contract. Which is exactly why so many hospitality businesses are haemorrhaging
money – quietly, consistently, and completely unnecessarily.
Energy is one of the biggest operational costs in hospitality. It’s also one of the most
exploited.
According to TDH data, 8 in 10 UK businesses are overcharged on energy, with hidden
broker fees inflating contract prices by up to 30%. And hospitality – with its high,
round-the-clock energy demands – sits squarely in the crosshairs.
The problem isn’t just the contract. It’s everything around it.
Most business owners assume that once the energy contract is signed, the hard part is
done. It isn’t. The real losses often come later – in bills that don’t match contracted
rates, in tolerance breaches that trigger punishing deemed rates, in penalty charges
that could have been avoided with the right monitoring in place.
When we analysed the energy setup for one restaurant group across just three sites, the
findings were stark. Hidden broker commissions alone pointed to contract savings of
between £41,864 and £53,411. On top of that, a single bill review uncovered four
separate issues — including a charge not listed in the contract and fees with no
contract match at all. The same analysis identified 12–18 days per year lost to admin
across bill validation, meter readings and consumption monitoring. Time that could be
spent running the business.
That’s not an outlier. That’s the norm.
Visibility is the first step to control.
The challenge for most hospitality SMEs is that they have no real-time view of what
they’re spending, what they’re consuming, or whether their bill reflects what they
actually agreed to. By the time an overcharge surfaces, the money is long gone.
disruptmyenergybill was built for exactly this situation. The platform brings energy
contracts, usage data and emissions tracking together in one place – giving hospitality
businesses continuous oversight of their energy costs, AI-powered bill validation that
catches overcharges and penalties before they land, and a direct procurement process
that eliminates broker commissions entirely.
No more guessing. No more overpaying. No more 15-page energy bills you don’t have
time to decode.
The margin you’re looking for might already exist.
In an industry where every percentage point of margin matters, the money lost to energy
inefficiency and broker overcharging isn’t a small line item. For many hospitality
businesses, recovering it could be the difference between a difficult year and a
profitable one.
The first step is simply finding out how much you’re losing. It takes minutes – and the
answer tends to be surprising.
Find out how much you could save at disruptmyenergybill.com
