Your restaurant isleaking money.I find where.
Operations consulting for independent Denver restaurants and bars. I audit the contracts, the labor, the menu, and the line, then I fix what the numbers point at, on site, with your team.
$120,000+ documented impact at one Denver bar and grill. $83,000 of it was one skipped line in a POS contract.
Problems I solve.
Each block is the leak, the approach, and one number it earned. The figures are documented, not guessed.
Fees and skipped charges hide inside processing contracts for years, and nobody finds them because nobody has a free hour to read the fine print. I do. I go through yours line by line.
Most schedules were built once and never rebuilt as the business changed. I track labor against sales every single day, reshape the schedule with you, and cross-train your team so cutting hours never means killing service.
When tickets pile up at the pass, the kitchen drowns, the bar backs up, and guests start checking their watches. I rebuild how orders move from station to station so the line flows again.
Most menus were priced once, years ago, and never touched again while food costs kept moving. I cost every plate honestly and rebuild the pricing so each dish earns its place on the menu.
It is not carelessness. You are running a restaurant, the invoices land in a pile. I review your suppliers and buy direct where it saves real money.
Coolers and dish machines always die on a Friday, that is a law somewhere. I fix what I can safely fix myself, and when it is genuinely a vendor job, I will tell you that straight.
What I actually do.
This is the full toolbox. The diagnostic is how most owners start, but every service below is also bookable on its own.
Every service in full, with the proof for each.
One Denver bar and grill. One year. $120,000+.
I walked into a pricing error that had already been running for a full year. The menu prices had never included a 3.89% fee buried in the POS contract, so the house lost that cut on every single ticket. I found it, confirmed it with the POS company, and fixed it. That was $83,000 a year, back.
Labor was heading for 24.28%. I started tracking it daily, a simple snapshot of sales against labor, and scheduled to the business we were actually doing instead of the business we hoped for. It landed at 20.99% on $775,881 in sales: $32,166 saved. Ticket times went from 19 minutes to 9. A $6,000 payroll tax error got caught and corrected. Suppliers got reviewed. Every recipe got standardized into station bibles in under two weeks, and when equipment broke, I fixed it instead of paying emergency call-out rates.
Total documented impact in the first year: $120,000+.
Nobody in that building was lazy, and the owner was not the problem. The systems around good people were broken. That is fixable, and it is most of what I do.
$120,000+
References available on request.
The full record: every engagement written up, every number itemized.
How the work goes.
Four steps. You always know which one you are in, and what comes out of it.
The Diagnostic.
Scroll the steps. The numeral marks where you are.
The Diagnostic.
I spend three weeks in your numbers and in your building: your contracts, your labor, your menu costs, how orders move, your equipment, your team. What you get is a written report that names every leak and tells you what each one costs you per year.
The Tightening.
For one week after that, I come back and check on everything, and fix anything from the first pass that is not holding. No new systems in this week, just making sure the work sticks.
The Overhaul.
If you want the leaks fixed and not just named, I stay and fix them alongside your team, on the floor, during real services. The scope and price come from what the diagnostic found.
The Handoff.
Everything I install gets written down in a form your managers can actually run: station bibles, the daily sales and labor snapshot, clear procedures. The fix has to survive after I leave. That is the whole point.
Three ways in.
Start with one fix a la carte, begin with a full diagnostic of the operation, or overhaul the systems on site with your team.
A la carte
Audits and quick help stand on their own. So does everything else in the list above. One problem, one fix, scoped on the call and priced to the fix, not the hour. No engagement required. This is where a lot of owners start, with the one thing keeping them up.
The Operations Diagnostic
Three weeks plus the included tightening week. A written findings report with every leak priced per year. Payment terms are simple, and in writing before we start. This is the entry point for every engagement.
The report is yours either way. If the math says this work will not pay for itself in your building, I will tell you that on the call, before you spend a dollar.
Not sure yet? Book the call anyway. The call is free. The diagnostic is the paid part.
The Operations Overhaul
Implementation of the diagnostic findings, on site, with your team. Scoped and quoted after the diagnostic, because the diagnostic is what tells us both what the work actually is. The diagnostic gives the estimate. The proposal gives the price.
Operator first.
Operator first, consultant second. Fifteen years running high-volume rooms up to $8M a year, from the line to the P&L, including 5,000 to 7,000 person concerts run end to end. As comfortable rebuilding a cooler motor as rebuilding a labor model. ServSafe and TIPS certified. The work is always the same: find the money the operation is losing, fix the system that is losing it, and train the team so it stays fixed.
Questions owners ask.
Yes. I work in your building, on your floor, during your services. I do not consult from behind a desk.
No. I fix systems and train your people to run them. Your team stays your team. They just get better tools.
Your report lands inside three weeks, and every leak in it is priced per year, so you can decide with real numbers in front of you.
Independent restaurants and bars busy enough that a few points of labor, or one bad contract, is real money. If your place is too small for the math to work, I will say that too.
Yes. Start with the one thing that is keeping you up. That is how most of my work begins.
Start with the contract. It is free.
The POS Audit Checklist is the same first pass used in a paid contract audit: the fees, skipped charges, and pricing traps that hide in processing and platform contracts, in a one-page checklist you can run on your own building this week. If it finds something ugly, that is what the diagnostic is for.
Find out what your restaurant is leaking.
One call. We talk through your numbers like two people who have both survived a Friday night, and I tell you straight whether a diagnostic pays for itself in your building.