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Restaurant Operations Consulting in San Diego — From Diagnostic to Long-Term Recovery

The three disciplines — diagnostics, menu & labor engineering, and leadership advisory — delivered through three engagement levels. Each one starts from the same place: your numbers. No floor disruption, no six-month lock-in.

01. START HERE : PROVE THE MONEY IS THERE

Cost Reduction: The Prime Cost Diagnostic Sprint

The fastest way to find out what your operation is really leaking. In under two weeks, we pull your numbers apart — food, beverage, and labor — and hand you a ranked map of exactly where your margin is going and what it’s worth to recover. No retainer. No commitment. Just evidence. Most operators read the brief and immediately understand why their P&L never quite added up.

What we audit

Theoretical vs. actual cost of goods, vendor invoices, menu mix, beverage pour cost, bar program, labor.

What you get

A diagnostic report: a variance map, a dollarized leak ledger, and a prioritized cost-containment roadmap you can hand to your team Monday.

FormatOne time engagement

Data inputsPOS · invoices · schedules · specs

TimelineUnder 2 weeks

Best fitAny single venue or group

On a $3M operation, recovering 2 points is $60,000 a year.

Typical prime-cost recovery

02. THEN KEEP IT - RECOVERY THAT COMPOUNDS

Profit Improvement: The Margin Recovery Retainer

Finding the leak is the start. Keeping it closed and catching the next one before it costs you is where the real money lives. The retainer puts a senior operator on your numbers every week: reviewing the variance, tightening the program, and telling you what to act on before it shows up at month-end. This is the engagement that turns a one-time recovery into a permanently healthier P&L. Most Diagnostic Sprint clients move here once they see what week one uncovered.

What we audit

Monthly cost-of-goods variance, menu performance, beverage program, labor model, vendor pricing, POS reporting.

What you get

Dedicated senior operator time every week, direct line access, monthly performance briefing, implementation oversight and a P&L that gets cleaner every quarter, not just once.

FormatMonthly Partnership

Data inputsPOS mix · pour tests · invoices

TimelineOngoing, weekly meetings

Best fit2-6 venues groups

Recover 2–5 blended points on a $5M group and you’re protecting $100,000–$250,000 a year.

Typical margin recovery

03. REBUILD IT RIGHT - WHEN THE SYSTEM IS THE PROBLEM

Turnaround: The Operational Overhaul

Sometimes the margin leak is downstream of something bigger: no documented standards, undertrained floor leadership, a concept that scaled faster than its systems. The Overhaul rebuilds the operational infrastructure from the ground up — service architecture, SOPs, training, and pre-opening systems, all grounded in Michelin-level standards adapted for independent operators. This is how you make excellence repeatable across every location and every new hire.

What we audit

Service model, standards consistency, floor leadership, documentation, pre-opening readiness

What you get

SOP library, staff leadership training manuals, role specific job descriptions, wine and beverage education program, leadership workshop, opening calendar tracker.

FormatFixed-scope project

Data inputsOn property · pour tests · invoices

Timeline4-10 weeks

Best fitHigh-volume & beverage-led venues

Michelin-level service architecture, without the Michelin overhead

Typical outcome

How an engagement runs

Four steps. No disruption to your floor.

Discovery Call

Thirty minutes with you and your numbers. We pull the headline figures, identify where the margin is most likely bleeding, and tell you which diagnostic fits your operation. No pitch deck. No frameworks. If we are not the right fit, you will know by the end of the call.

Data Collection

We need three things: your POS export, ninety days of vendor invoices, and your labor reports. That is the entire requirement. No site visit to begin. No disruption to service. No staff interviews that tip off the floor. The data tells the story before we ever walk in.

Forensics Diagnostic

Findings delivered as an executive brief with ranked action items, projected recovery range, and a clear recommendation on whether a retainer engagement makes economic sense. You see the math before you commit to anything.

Decision

You see the math before you commit to anything beyond the diagnostic. If the recoverable margin justifies an ongoing engagement — and in a multi-unit operation it almost always does — we define the scope together. If it does not, I tell you that too.

Hospitality Intelligence Platform

The same forensic analysis behind every engagement above, packaged into a platform that reads your POS, invoices, and labor data automatically and flags where margin is leaking. Coming soon.

What's to come

Engage now and your operation's history is already in the system when the platform goes live.

TERROIR & TACTICS DASHBOARD

Stop guessing where your margin went

No pitch deck, no pressure, just the first read on your numbers

Book a free 30-minute discovery call. We’ll pull your headline numbers, identify where you’re most likely bleeding, and tell you which engagement fits, before you spend a dollar.

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