Restaurant Consulting Services

We help our clients create high-performance restaurants that are profitable, exceed business plan objectives, provide new growth opportunities, and create workplaces where staff are happy and productive. High performance restaurants also have loyal customers that return time and again.

Typical Food Power clients include:

• Independent Restaurant Owner/Operators
• Regional Restaurant Chains
• Mixed-use Property Owners
• Private Dining Operations
• Large, Commercial Property Companies with Multiple Restaurant Tenants
• First-time Restaurateurs
• Chef-led Restaurants

Our Core Consulting Services Include:

PROFITABILITY

• Menu Engineering – theoretical vs actual cost analysis and item-level sales analysis through to new menu design and execution
• Creating the right financial reporting – to restaurant industry standards – revealing your true business performance and opportunities for improvement and growth
• Financial analysis
• Competitive performance analysis within your restaurant concept category

OPERATIONS

• Identification of key operational weaknesses that are creating risk and how to effectively turn those around
• Creation of structure and process for teams to increase productivity and accountability
• Vendor/supplier audits and strategy
• Standard operating procedure audit
• Technology reviews (POS, Security, Employee Tools, etc.) – analysis and recommendations
• Employee training programs

STRATEGY

• Business plan, owner vision, and operational alignment
• Change management
• Growth strategy
• Culture alignment and coaching

EXPANSION and LAUNCH

• Capabilities review – teams, systems, process, structure
• Financial modeling
• Site identification and lease negotiation

HOW IT WORKS

The first step is to get in touch. We learn about your business, your unique challenges, and the opportunities you’re seeking. From there we together develop a workflow that helps you meet your goals, and transforms your restaurant into a high performance business.