How Grosso Napoletano cut time to fill by 64% with Clara AI

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Grosso Napoletano, a 600-person restaurant group in Spain, cut time to fill from 14 days to 5 and grew their hire rate per process from 10% to 75% in three months.

Client snapshot

  • Industry: Restaurants

  • Country: Spain

  • Employees: 600

The challenge

Running a 600-person restaurant group means constant, high-volume hiring across multiple locations.

Grosso Napoletano's process was manual end-to-end: phone screens, email coordination, spreadsheet tracking. By the time a candidate reached an interview, days had passed and many had accepted offers elsewhere.

"We were running the whole process manually. Every step had a handoff, and every handoff added days. By the time we got candidates to an interview, we'd already lost half of them."

— Bruno González Calvo, CEO

The solution

Clara AI replaced manual coordination with 24/7 AI voice interviews, instant pre-screening, and candidate self-booking. The team stopped managing handoffs and started managing pipeline.

Deployed in December as a pilot, it reached full rollout by February.

Core Clara AI features we used with Grosso Napoletano

We partnered with Grosso Napolitano to implement these core Clara AI features:

  1. 24/7 AI voice interviews - Candidates interviewed around the clock, replacing sequential phone screening

  2. Instant pre-screening - Responses evaluated in real time, replacing manual application review

  3. Automated interview notifications - candidates receive instant push notifications prompting them to take the next steps

  4. Candidate pool optimization - accessing available candidates who have previously met the required standards

  5. Feedback comms - automated communications to provide feedback to candidates

  6. Real-time funnel analytics - Full pipeline visibility, replacing spreadsheet tracking

Results

Over three months, Grosso Napoletano ran 129 hiring processes through Clara AI, interviewed 2,196 candidates, and made 54 hires.

Metric

Before Clara AI

With Clara AI

Time to fill

14 days

5 days

Hired per process

10% (December pilot)

75% (February full rollout)


"We went from 14 days to 5. The team could actually plan ahead instead of scrambling. That difference changes how you think about growth."

— Alberto Angulo, People Operations Manager, Grosso Napoletano


What Clara AI can do for your team

Grosso Napoletano's results show what happens when coordination overhead gets replaced with automation.

If you're managing high-volume hiring in hospitality or any fast-moving industry, this pattern applies directly.

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