Franchise Video Surveillance System
Savi
Your cameras are already running. They're just not working hard enough.
If you operate 20, 50, or 500 locations, your existing security cameras generate thousands of hours of footage every day. But most franchise operators can't answer a basic question without calling a GM or pulling a manual report: what's actually happening at each location right now? A franchise surveillance system should do more than record. It should surface the moments that cost you money, slow your drive-thru, and put your brand at risk before they compound.
The Problem With Legacy Franchise Surveillance Systems
Traditional surveillance setups were designed for a single store. Scale them across a franchise network and the gaps get expensive fast.
DVRs fail silently. Hard drives fill up. GMs can't share footage with corporate without mailing a physical drive. Your loss prevention team spends hours scrubbing video instead of acting on what they find. When something goes wrong, pinpointing a clip means digging through days of recordings with no context.
Meanwhile, you're paying for footage that isn't telling you anything. Speed of service isn't tracked. Compliance isn't verified. Shrink accumulates quietly until the quarterly count finally catches it. IT spends time managing fragmented camera systems across dozens of vendors instead of supporting growth.
The result is the same at every scale: a surveillance infrastructure that protects against liability but does nothing for operations.
Savi: A Franchise Surveillance System Built for Multi-Unit Operators
Savi turns your existing cameras into a real-time operations engine. No rip-and-replace. No new cabling runs. A credit-card-sized edge device connects each location to the cloud, giving your entire organization live visibility from one platform.
Operations leaders get drive-thru timing by site and daypart. Loss prevention gets Event Search, where finding a specific moment takes seconds instead of hours. IT gets a single cloud platform replacing a patchwork of on-site DVRs across the portfolio. Every team works from the same footage, in the same system, at the same time.
How Savi's Franchise Surveillance System Works
Connect your existing cameras. Savi installs in hours, not weeks. The edge device at each site syncs your current camera feeds to the cloud, so there is no new hardware required at the camera level.
Search footage in seconds. Event Search lets your loss prevention team find the clip that matters without scrubbing through hours of video. Filter by time, location, or incident type and jump directly to the moment.
Operate across every location from one dashboard. Enterprise Reporting gives district managers and corporate ops teams a single view across the portfolio. Flag anomalies, track speed of service, and surface compliance gaps before they become brand issues.
Surface what the footage would otherwise miss. Savi's AI detects behavioral signals and baseline deviations across sites, giving your team coachable moments to act on rather than an archive to dig through.
What Operators See in the First 90 Days
The results from Savi's customer base are specific.
Scooter's Coffee franchisee Craig Schroeder caught $3,500 in internal theft in the first 90 days and added 1.41% in gross sales back to his bottom line. His assessment: "This system pays for itself." FiiZ Drinks discovered $3,250 in internal loss in that same window using Savi's video and Event Search combination.
For multi-unit IT teams, Marco's Pizza deployed cloud video to more than 1,000 locations in under six months, saving $500K in equipment, labor, and deployment costs. VP Milton Molina called Savi "a true partner with a cloud platform that has helped future proof our brand and franchisees'."
A 75-location Burger King franchisee eliminated an IT bottleneck entirely, giving GMs and district managers org-wide video access without adding headcount. Their ops team described it as "essentially a Google Search for our operations."
On the drive-thru side, Swig achieved a 7-10% improvement in drive-thru speeds using Savi's analytics. COO Chase Wardrop: "Last month we had our fastest drive-thru speeds ever." Savi's Drive-Thru Disruptors research found that for sub-500-unit chains, even minor drive-thru improvements can produce a 12-18% boost in overall ratings, making speed of service one of the highest-leverage levers in the portfolio.
Across 3,500-plus locations on the platform, operators consistently find that the right franchise surveillance system pays for itself in loss recovery and speed gains alone.
One Platform, Every Use Case
The cloud video dataset powering your franchise surveillance system today is the same foundation that unlocks loss prevention, drive-thru analytics, compliance monitoring, and team coaching without re-tooling a single site. Operations, IT, and loss prevention all work from the same footage in the same platform. As computer vision and AI capabilities advance, a cloud-architected dataset means your brand can adopt new tools without replacing on-site infrastructure. This is a foundation decision, not a point solution purchase.
Key Takeaways
A modern franchise surveillance system does more than record. It surfaces operational insights across every location in real time.
Savi connects to your existing cameras with a plug-in edge device. Deployment is fast and cost is predictable.
Operators consistently catch internal loss and compliance issues within the first 90 days on the platform.
Drive-thru analytics, in-store flow, and loss prevention all run from one cloud platform, with one dataset serving every team.
3,500-plus locations are already on the platform, including Scooter's Coffee, Marco's Pizza, FiiZ Drinks, Swig, and a 75-location Burger King franchisee.
Ready to See Every Location From One Platform?
Stop managing your franchise surveillance system location by location. See how Savi gives your entire organization real-time visibility without replacing the cameras you already have.
