Solutions
Industries
Hospitality

Microsoft 365 for

multi-site hospitality operators.

Hospitality runs on people who are often new, often part-time, and rarely sitting at a desk. We build the Microsoft estate that gets new staff productive on day one, surfaces daily operational performance to the people running each site, and gives senior leadership a real-time view of the estate without ringing each general manager every Monday morning.

150+
Sites onto Power Platform
1 day
New-site rollout once template lands
F1/F3
Frontline licensing applied properly

H

SECTOR
The work we do

What we build for

hospitality firms.

Hospitality has its own pattern: high staff turnover, multi-site operations, daily operational tempo, thin margins, and a customer experience that depends on every site getting the basics right every day. The Microsoft work reflects that.

Multi-site staff onboarding and training at speed

A new starter in hospitality often starts on a Saturday morning with eight hours of shift ahead of them. We build onboarding workflows that get accounts and access provisioned before the first shift, that personalise a SharePoint hub to the role and the site, and that get the new starter into their site Teams channel the same day.

Site templates
Right-to-work flows
Training records
Day-one access

Daily operations dashboards

The general manager at each site needs a fast view every morning. Yesterday's revenue. Yesterday's covers. Today's bookings. Power BI dashboards that pull from POS, booking platform, rotas, refreshed daily, designed to be read on a phone in five minutes between shifts.

EPOS integration
Labour cost
Food cost
Daily refresh

Inventory visibility across sites

Stock that is out at site A while site B has too much. Stock that is approaching its date. Power Apps for the stock counts (mobile, fast, designed for someone in a kitchen), Power Automate for the transfers and reorders, Power BI for the dashboard the ops manager looks at.

Mobile counts
GP variance
Site-to-site transfers
Power BI rollup

Shift management and rotas

Shift change requests, shift swaps, shift coverage, holiday requests, the right-to-work documentation that has to be in place for every shift. We integrate with existing rota platforms (Deputy, S4Labour, Planday, Quinyx) rather than replace them.

Rota integrations
Swap workflows
Right-to-work tracking
Exception flagging
Compliance considerations

The standards and regulators that

shape this work.

1

HACCP food safety

Digital temperature logs, cleaning schedules, supplier checks, allergen records, hazard reviews.

2

Natasha's Law allergens

Evidence trail and real-time allergen lookup for service staff at point of order.

3

Right-to-work + payroll

Documentation discipline for high-turnover sectors. Audit-tight onboarding and offboarding evidence.

4

Licensing

Alcohol licences, late-night refreshment, regulated entertainment — record-keeping and renewal management.

5

RIDDOR

Health and safety incident records, ready for HSE submission and insurance evidence.

6

PCI DSS (hospitality)

We work with your POS provider rather than handling card data directly; we make sure surrounding workflows do not compromise PCI scope.

Adding a new site used to be a fortnight of IT setup. Now it's a Teams template, a Power App init, and we're live by close of play.
OD
Operations Director
Hospitality group, 28 sites
FAQ

Things sector leaders

actually ask.

We use a POS system (Toast, Square, Lightspeed, OpenTable, Sevenrooms). Does Cloudbliss replace it?

No. POS systems do what they do better than Microsoft alternatives. We integrate with them. Power BI pulls data from the POS for dashboarding. Power Automate captures the data flows that feed operational workflows. The POS stays as the system of record for sales and bookings.

What about multi-site licence economics?

Hospitality often has a head-office population on Business Premium or E3 and a much larger field population on Frontline Worker (F1 or F3) licences, which are designed for shift workers and cost significantly less per user per month. We help structure this during the M365 Licence Health Check, which often produces meaningful savings.

How fast can a new starter be productive?

With the Employee Onboarding Automation in place, day one. Account provisioned, access granted, training delivered through the onboarding hub, site Teams channel joined. The work that used to take three days in HR's diary takes three minutes once the offer is accepted.

Will Copilot create governance problems with high turnover?

Yes if you do not plan for it. The Employee Onboarding Automation includes Copilot licence provisioning and access controls; the offboarding workflow revokes them on the leaver's last day. The Copilot governance policy includes the high-turnover-specific clauses.

We run multiple brands. Can the Microsoft estate handle that?

Yes. Either as a single tenant with brand-aware governance (right for most multi-brand operators with shared back-office), or as multiple tenants linked through cross-tenant collaboration (right where the brands genuinely operate as separate businesses).