Pro Forma

Pro Forma: Latin for ‘as a matter of form’. In the restaurant business it can mean a document that captures and measures financial success (or failure). When I meet with consulting clients, and they are in desperate need of figuring out why they can’t make ends meet, the first thing I ask them for is to…

Every Place is Different

Cost structures. Not exactly the sexiest of topics. But understanding what they mean, especially to you the chef/owner, is important. Every establishment is different. I don’t mean that this place serves Italian food, this place serves Mexican food, this place serves Thai food, etc., of course those places are different. That is more like what we talk about…

Restaurant 101

Restaurants are really no different than any other kind of business. You need to drive sales, and control costs. That’s it. Oh, I guess I should say more than that… How How to go about that really is the test, isn’t it? Let’s have a quick lesson in that thing called a restaurant. The prime…