Audits

Insula Research provides a wide variety of audits. Our audit services include:

Delivery Audits

If the products and materials delivered to your stores do not meet company standards, your team cannot possibly deliver superior quality to your customers. Insula Research delivery audits allow our customers to monitor distribution adherence to delivery standards. Our auditors are trained and experienced at measuring delivery standards with a keen eye toward client expectations, as well as providing accurate data concerning the temperatures, weights, volumes, and conditions of products delivered.

Image Audits

In a highly competitive business world, first impressions can be the difference between a sale obtained and an opportunity your facilities—a particularly useful tool for any company that wants to protect its brand image standards while dealing with a diverse or geographically dispersed franchise community. Our image audit services include:

  • Signage Inspections

  • Product Display Inspections

  • Site Safety Inspections

  • Franchise Requirement Adherence

Quality Audits

The constant struggle to control human resources, customer service and product availability issues can at times overwhelm even the best management staff. Why guess about the quality you are serving your clients when Insula Research quality control audits can be the extra eyes and ears your company needs? Our trained auditors are equipped with digital cameras, thermometers, scales, measuring devices, and laptop computers to provide you with detailed feedback regarding across-the-counter quality and cleanliness conditions at your stores. In addition, refractometers, Brix kits and other testing equipment can be utilized to insure that only the highest quality products are reaching your customers.

Operational/Capital Assets Audits

Operational/Capital Assets audits are designed to monitor compliance to standards on product handling, storage, production, and serving standards. If through the use of our quality audits or some other feedback you have learned that opportunities exist for enhanced performance, our operational audits will help you identify exactly where the breakdowns in adherence to standards exist. We can measure and record activities at the store or restaurant in a significant sampling of your sites. Then we will assess that data to tell you what standards are not being kept, and equally important, why.

On-site Compliance Audits
“Bigger” may be better, but bigger rarely makes it easier to ensure that the same high standards a business used to grow from a local operation are still being met company-wide. Whether the standards involve signage and image issues, site and equipment safety, or product availability and display concerns, our national network of auditors allows Insula Research on-site compliance audits to ensure that your company’s standard are adhered to throughout a city, state, region, or even across the country.
Age Compliance Audits
Are you selling a product that is age specific?  Tobacco or alcohol?  At Insula Research, we understand that there are implications involved when selling age specific products to minors.  With our trained field researchers that meet age requirements, Insula Research is able to help protect companies from selling to minors. 

Custom  Research Audit

Each organization is unique, as is each opportunity for improvement. Insula Research can design and implement customized audits and research studies to accurately address your company’s needs. From testing the impact of a new electronic payment option on speed of service, to evaluating the impact of training initiatives on quality, we can design an audit or research program to measure, accurately and effectively, all facets of performance and customer service. Depending on your project needs, Insula can also offer summary data, on-line reporting, and in-depth analysis to ensure timely, reliable assessment. Featuring demonstrated, large-project expertise, national coverage, and a dedicated team of professionals, Insula offers the marketing research solutions to keep your company ahead of the competition.