Cost, price, pour, proof.
Four engagements that stack. Start with one; most operators end up running all four over a year.
Food cost review & menu engineering
The core engagement. We cost every plate against the invoices you actually paid, then rebuild the menu around contribution margin instead of habit.
Beverage cost & pour control
Beverage is where margin is won and lost fastest. We set specs, build the count routine, and make the standard survive a Saturday night.
Menu pricing strategy
Most menus are underpriced in the wrong places and overpriced in the ones guests notice. We rebuild the price architecture around margin and perception.
Margin and channel reporting
Numbers you can act on, on a rhythm you can keep. We rebuild the reporting so the weekly meeting is about decisions, not data entry.
How engagements are structured
Scoped to the venue, not to a package. Pricing is quoted after the profit call.
Profit Review
A fixed-scope diagnostic on one venue. Invoices in, ranked decisions out.
Implementation Sprint
One discipline installed end to end (specs, prices, or reporting) with your team trained on it.
Fractional Advisory
A standing seat at your numbers. Weekly reporting review, monthly deep dive, on-call for buying and pricing calls.
Questions operators ask first
Read-only access is ideal, but exports work fine. At minimum: three months of invoices, a sales-mix report, current recipes if they exist, and the last three P&Ls.
No. Findings go to ownership first. When we train the team, it’s on standards and routines, framed as tools, not indictments.
Common. Building them is part of the review. You’ll leave with a costed recipe book whether or not one existed going in.
Scope is set after the profit call, based on venue count, revenue, and how much of the underlying data already exists. You get a fixed number before anything starts.
A restaurant doing $2 million in annual sales gains $40,000 when it improves operating margin by two percentage points.
What are two points worth in your business?
Bring your latest P&L and sales-mix report to a free 30-minute profit call. We will identify the largest profit leaks, estimate what may be recoverable, and tell you whether engaging us makes financial sense.