Your restaurant, curated.
Experienced consultants in North Florida helping restaurants scale with operational excellence.
Restaurant Consultants to elevate your operations
Our tailored consulting services aim to elevate your restaurant’s performance by identifying and capitalizing on growth opportunities, streamlining operations, enhancing brand image, and boosting your financial performance.
Established Restaurants
Staffing, high operating and food costs, and attracting and retaining customers are the top three challenges that restaurants face. Although each restaurant is unique, owners share common frustrations, including a lack of time and energy to find suitable solutions while handling day-to-day operations. Epicurean Consulting provides you with a detailed plan of action to create long-term success and profitability.
New Concepts
It typically takes an estimated three to five years for a restaurant to turn a profit due to labor, food costs, and unforeseen details that impact their bottom line. Epicurean Consulting aims to optimize your performance from the beginning, getting ahead of challenges and shrinking the gap to profitability. As restaurant industry experts, we’re a leading resource for creating and managing a successful restaurant, taking you from concept to opening and providing the support you need to flourish.
Our Services
Our consulting services provide an actionable solution to restaurant industry challenges.
Operational Evaluation
We perform a detailed analysis of your restaurant operation, including menu planning, kitchen layout, inventory management, staff training, and customer service. Our report identifies areas for improvement by pinpointing inefficiencies, bottlenecks, and potential cost savings. With carefully curated recommendations, we provide you with the insight to streamline your operations, enhance productivity, and ultimately improve your bottom line.
Staff Coaching
Staff turnover is one of the most common setbacks for restaurants. Our consultants help restaurant owners and management build trust with their teams through culture-building strategies. Our system optimizes team performance by addressing underlying challenges, weaknesses, and strengths for staff retention.
Food & Beverage Development
We analyze and refine menu offerings to maximize profitability and customer satisfaction. Our team of experts will guide you through portion and pricing strategies to balance profitability and perceived value. We’ll help you implement systems for tracking food costs, minimizing waste, and negotiating favorable vendor contracts.
Cost Analysis
Our team performs a detailed financial analysis of your business, identifying areas for improvement and growth opportunities. Our strategies include developing forecasts, budgets, and financial models to track performance and evaluate potential investments. We guide pricing strategies, cost management, cash flow optimization, and profit margin analysis to minimize your risk and maximize your profits.
Marketing & Branding Strategies
Epicurean Consulting maintains high-quality relationships with professionals who specialize in restaurant industry marketing. Upon agreement of our services, and at no charge to you, we’ll discuss marketing plans that work for your restaurant and connect you with industry experts to help you reach your audience and grow your business.
Design Consultation
Our consultants look beyond the principles of design to curate recommendations, delivering a unique dining concept for your customers and ease of service for your staff. We help you create an inviting space that turns your restaurant into the visual of your brand with a balance of functionality, a key element to a restaurant’s success.
Our Approach
Step One
We meet with you to discuss your goals and needs.
Step Two
We conduct an in-depth analysis and assessment of your restaurant's current operations and market standing. This includes mystery dining to gain the everyday experience of your customers and meeting with staff and management to gather a full picture of operations from every angle.
Step Three
We develop a detailed report and walk you through our recommendations and services that fit your needs.
Step Four
We implement tailored solutions, incorporating industry best practices. You’ll also receive short- or long-term support with ongoing monitoring.
Our Team
With over 27 years of combined industry experience, Epicurean Consulting helps restaurants thrive through tailored solutions that drive measurable results. We lead with experience in various areas of the industry, delivering a wealth of knowledge and industry insights to every client engagement. From concept development and menu design to operations management and marketing strategies, we have the experience to tackle the challenges that restaurants face.
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Let’s discuss the challenges you face and how our consultants can create tailored solutions