Operations consulting & custom systems · HANDS-ON CONSULTING

Find the right problem. Build the right response.

Hands-on consulting for food-cost questions, labor planning, manager handoffs and tools that do not work well together. Find the bottleneck, then build a practical response around your people and operation.

Talk through a bottleneck

A scoped advisory engagement. We agree on the work before starting.

The job to improve

You know something is slowing the restaurant down, but the right fix may not be obvious. Buying another piece of software before mapping the work can leave the original problem untouched.

How we would approach it

Map the bottleneck, its frequency, who owns it and the time, errors or missed opportunities involved.
Compare sensible options: a process change, reporting habit, training, conventional software, AI or a combination.
Agree on the priority, scope, decision rights and how to assess the work. Build a custom workflow or provide advisory support where that is the better fit.

What you would receive

A practical diagnosis and action plan, with a separately scoped custom build or advisory engagement. That might connect sales forecasts to recipe-based purchasing and staffing, or solve one smaller handoff that keeps costing your managers time.

What your team approves

Your team checks the proposed workflow and prepared outputs. You retain decisions about staffing, spending, messages and operating changes.

How we would judge the work

Choose measures that match the job: manager time, errors, follow-up completion, daypart coverage or scheduled versus actual labor hours and cost. For a connected planning system, review food, beverage and labor variances against consistent targets before expanding the scope.

BEFORE WE START

Practical questions.

How do we choose between several bottlenecks?

Compare how often each job happens, who does it, what goes wrong and whether usable inputs exist. Start with a bounded problem whose result the team can assess before committing to a wider system.

Who maintains a system after handoff?

Ownership, hosting, third-party accounts and routine checks should be settled in the scope. The handoff explains how to run and review the agreed workflow. Ongoing support and later changes are separately scoped and priced.

A CLEAR FIRST ENGAGEMENT

Start with the diagnostic$750

Build around your needsCustom quote

The $750 diagnostic is credited toward your agreed implementation if you proceed.

A focused workflow and a connected operating system are different projects. Your quote reflects complexity, data readiness, integrations and support. Builds and advisory work are scoped and priced separately, with scope and price agreed before work begins.

Tell me where the work gets stuck.

Seamus will reply to discuss your operation and whether this is a useful starting point. No files or payment are needed with your inquiry.

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