Simmons Bars brings multi-site inventory into Hops

Simmons Bars operates a recognisable group of London venues, from after-work drinks through to late-night service. Behind the guest experience sits the less visible work of purchasing, receiving and controlling stock across multiple locations.

Simmons selected Hops to bring inventory and operational information into one connected platform. The objective is straightforward: give the team a more consistent view across the estate without removing the operational differences that make each venue work.

Multi-site control is not simply one larger stock report. Operators need group visibility while site teams still receive deliveries, count stock and investigate their own exceptions. Hops is designed to hold those levels together.

One estate, with site-level evidence

A group view is useful only when the team can move from the headline into the venue and item behind it. That matters in a late-night operation where volume, product mix and service patterns can differ across locations.

Hops gives the central team a consistent structure for purchasing and inventory while preserving the site-level records needed to explain a count or variance. The announcement did not claim a measured commercial outcome, so this is a customer implementation update rather than a performance case study.

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View the original LinkedIn post: Hops' Simmons Bars announcement, published 16 June 2026