Restaurant Start-Up Services: Food & Beverage (F&B) Consulting

The art of opening a successful restaurant requires an enormous amount of knowledge and expertise that even the most experienced operators might find daunting. Our restaurant and hospitality consulting team has extensive experience in service, operations, hotel F&B, bar operations, and industry expertise to guide you every step of the way.

Equipped with comprehensive start-up checklists that cover every area of the restaurant business—from F&B concept development and opening to logistics and operations, to front of house and back office—we will devise a winning plan to bring your vision of opening a restaurant or hotel F&B to reality. Take the first step and get in touch.

Restaurant Concept Development & Creation

It All Starts With a Great Idea.

Just as no two restaurants are the same, we believe that no two restaurant concept creation and development plans can be created using the same playbook. We offer uniquely specialized, targeted foundations for all your concept development needs to grow your restaurant or hospitality business.

Our award-winning team, vast resources, and scope of expertise allow us to successfully collaborate with clients to develop an original playbook every time. We bring your concept to life while clearly defining your brand identity. From targeted market research and key brand principles to menu development and proven operating and financial systems to recruiting, talent development, and innovative restaurant concept services, we do it all.

Restaurant Brand Filtering & Identity Design

The vision of how your concept will develop may only exist in your mind’s eye, or you may have a binder full of ideas and inspiration. Perhaps your storefront or retail space has been secured, or the design and architecture are underway. Either way, you might still be asking yourself: What ties it all together?

To tie all the elements of a burgeoning restaurant concept together, there must be a real brand with a compelling story or strong message that can be conveyed, packaged, and sold. This is your brand filter. We use the brand filter to help clients define their brand and message, leading them into identity development and design. Our goal is to build the foundation that binds concept, menu, and decor, shaping the guest experience.

Restaurant Business Plans

Our expertise in creating restaurant business plans comes from our experience as real restaurant operators. We write plans that are created 100% from scratch and customized to your concept and business.

With our team, you avoid receiving the same old, repurposed restaurant business plan format. Instead, we provide methodologies and fact-based plans within a proven collaborative process that focus on concept creation and development, foundational financial standards, and reality-based budgeting. We take a concept from the business plan phase to the built environment, complete with procedural guidelines and a roadmap for daily operations.

Recipe & Menu Development & Menu Engineering

Our collective knowledge and passion for food and the food service industry come together in menu development and engineering. Our culinary consulting team is ready to create custom, deliciously innovative, and award-winning menu items, signature dishes, and seasonal offerings for your guests.

We conduct a detailed and exclusive menu engineering analysis to provide specialized menus that enhance our clients’ culinary businesses. Our team of seasoned operators, executive chefs, and systems experts work with clients to develop menu concept strategies for success in areas such as:

• Menu research and development
• Menu engineering and optimization
• Stacking of day parts and menu options for staff flexibility, quality guest service, and labor scheduling optimization

Restaurant Investor Presentations & Pitching Strategy

You’ve created your restaurant business plan and have your concept and brand filtering and identity design to show investors, but how do you make a real impression?

Our team will create the ideal investor presentation tailored to the specific investors you want to speak to. We help you attract like-minded investors who not only believe in your vision but also trust in your business plan and acumen enough to provide sound financial backing.

Bar Management, Operations & Consulting

Operating a bar properly and efficiently takes time, talent, and resources. From POS transactions to training the right talent behind the bar, we develop bar business plans and create customized bar concepts for top performance.

We believe the craft of bartending is in the details. Our success in guiding clients worldwide to put forth their best bar and beverage concepts includes confident talent, true brand ambassadors, an enticing menu, and the tools and resources to stand out.

New Restaurant Openings

New restaurant openings require proven resources and a detail-oriented focus that can challenge any owner and operator. We create strategic operating structures to help you from site selection to driving guests in the door.

Our training templates, side-by-side support, and performance evaluations ensure a smooth opening. Our insight on vendor selection and negotiation skills helps keep our clients’ bottom line on target and ready to achieve optimum profit benchmarks by day 59.

Front of House Services & Systems

Fact: Restaurant guests interact most often with front desk hosts, servers, and bartenders. Offering a positive guest experience from the start is vital to your business’s success.

We will train you and your team to set the tone for a welcoming guest experience every time. We specialize in restaurant staff training, hospitality training, and hotel management training. We focus on aligning front of house and guest services and systems to optimize first impressions, ultimately enhancing and improving the guest experience from start to finish.

Restaurant Operations & Management Support

We Know How to Run a Winning Playbook.

As operators, restaurant managers, and owners, we achieve results every day for our clients worldwide. We incorporate proven systems and streamlined operations throughout restaurant and food service outlets with measurable financial results. We understand how to achieve top results every step of the way.

Interior Architecture / Design

While good food and customer service are crucial, the ambiance of a restaurant is also important for return business. The design should be comfortable and inviting, with factors like seating capacity, ventilation, dining room circulation, bar area, and outdoor theme all considered.

At SK-Touch Interior Design studio, we design any type of cuisine, from fine dining to a gelato store, without missing any necessary details. Our team coordinates closely with our branding team to ensure the restaurant identity is correctly represented and all colors match. We handle designing and executing your project within any budget, from small to large.