How is this different from hiring an operations manager?

It is cheaper than a senior hire, and you get a team that has seen many kitchens rather than one person who has seen a few. It does not replace a manager on the floor — it gives that manager a system.

What is the minimum commitment?

Six months. Below that the monthly rhythm never establishes itself and nobody can tell whether the work was worth it.

Do you take equity instead of fees?

Occasionally, for brands we believe in and where we are involved deeply enough to affect the outcome. It is the exception, not the offer.

Growth Partnership

A monthly rhythm for restaurants that are past the opening.

Typical timeline: 6-month minimum, monthly
Deliverables: 5 documented outputs

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Opening is a project. Running is a habit. The partnership exists because most of the value we create shows up in the twelfth month, not the first.

The monthly cycle

Numbers first: P&L, food cost, labour cost, covers, average ticket, delivery mix, rating. Against last month and against the same month last year, because seasonality lies to anyone comparing only to the previous month.

Then the review: what moved, why, and what we are changing before the next cycle. One page, three decisions. Not a forty-slide deck.

Quarterly

The menu gets re-engineered against the actual sales mix. Supplier rates get tested against the market. The training calendar gets refreshed for whoever has joined. SOPs get corrected where reality has drifted from the document.

Expansion

When you are ready for a second outlet, the partnership already has your numbers, your systems and your standards documented — which is exactly what a second site needs and exactly what most founders have to reconstruct from memory under time pressure.

We evaluate sites, model the investment, and run the opening against the same framework.

What it is not

It is not a monthly report emailed from a desk. Site visits are part of it, and the consultant who reviews your numbers is the one who has stood in your kitchen during service.

Where this sits in the framework

This is Grow, month after month — the stage everyone agrees matters and almost nobody schedules.

How we work

Where this sits in the CulinaPro Growth Framework™

Every engagement runs through the same five stages. This one sits inside that system.

Discover

We look at your numbers, your kitchen and your guests before we form an opinion.
Design

A plan built around your margins, your space and the market you actually sell to.
Develop

SOPs, recipes and costings written so a new hire can run your kitchen in week two.
Launch

Trials, staff training and a soft open before a single paying guest is disappointed.
Grow

Monthly numbers, menu changes and fixes — the part that separates a good year from a good month.