Accompanying the Establishment
Often, owners of small, cozy cafes, restaurants, or other dining establishments start a business without professional skills or minimal expertise in various aspects of restaurant management. Without an efficient and effective management system for both the restaurant and its team, the establishment may operate below its potential and eventually even close down.
Modern Chef offers the “Restaurant Consulting in Ukraine” service, a comprehensive business support solution that includes training, consultations, and outsourcing. This approach allows us to optimize restaurant management and build a solid foundation for its growth. With our professional support, you can focus on more strategic issues, while our specialists handle the optimization of essential processes, such as concept development and restaurant management organization.
Support and Consultation Areas
The Modern Chef team assists in the following areas:
- Operational Efficiency: Standardizing and optimizing daily operations in your restaurant to ensure smooth and efficient functioning, including the implementation of recipe cards and inventory management.
- Hiring and Outsourcing: Selecting qualified staff who align with your restaurant’s concept and possess the necessary professional skills, as well as providing staff outsourcing and ongoing training to enhance team efficiency and ensure consistent service quality.
- Effective Marketing Strategy: Attracting more guests and increasing brand awareness through tailored marketing strategies, social media promotion, advertising campaigns, review management, and content creation.
- Comprehensive Financial Management: Controlling and minimizing expenses through financial audits for cafes and restaurants. Based on these audits, we help you establish a budget for supplies, salaries, marketing, and other essential costs, and develop a pricing policy that accounts for cost, desired margin, and consumer habits.
Types of Consultations We Offer
Modern Chef’s comprehensive restaurant business support includes consultations on:
- Any Aspect of Restaurant Operations: We provide effective solutions for various challenges.
- Menu Development or Upgrades: Creating or revamping all menu types from scratch (main, seasonal, promotional, and supplementary).
Efficient Staff - Management: Ensuring high service levels and smooth operations.
- Process Automation: Implementing systems for inventory control, cost optimization, and order management to improve communication between kitchen staff and waitstaff.
- Quality Control and Sanitary Standards: Maintaining a high reputation and guest satisfaction.
- Food Safety Standards: Ensuring compliance with current regulations.
- Multi-location Management: Effectively managing a chain of cafes as a unified system, upholding preparation and service standards across all locations.
Problems that the Service Solves:
- Lack of Skilled Staff: We bring in experienced professionals to manage key processes (restaurant outsourcing) to reduce your workload while maintaining quality.
- Limited Time for Issue Resolution: We provide quick answers and solutions, enabling rapid response to business needs.
- Lack of Specialized Knowledge and Skills: We offer expert support to help you establish processes that meet standards.
- Stagnant Profits: We help optimize processes to ensure consistent income growth.
- Low Energy to Run the Establishment: We take on part of the responsibilities, allowing you to focus on strategic goals and regain motivation for business growth.
Escort Options
Oral Consultations
Expert opinion; you ask questions and get answers from experienced restaurateurs.
Menu Upgrade
- Development of the main menu
- Seasonal menu development
- Development of new products
Control
Marketing:
- Analytics
- Marketing strategy
- Product creation
- Customer acquisition
- Promotion
- PR
Financial Accounting
- P&L
- Balance
- Cash flow
HR
- Search
- Personnel reserve
- Education
Operating Activities
- Team management
- Technology implementation
- Quality control
Who is this Service for?
- Business Owners
- Entrepreneurs
- Investors
Why Should You Order from Us?
- We use knowledge that has been applied in reality and turned into experience.
- Bank of relations in the restaurant industry - managers, chefs, bar managers, sommeliers, suppliers, contractors, and other specialists.
- We use working models.
- Professional reputation.
- We introduce the basics of regular management in the institution.
Help with the existing establishment
AUDIT
“To understand a system, one must go beyond it.”
You may have heard the term “blurred look”. Sometimes, due to the fact that a manager is deeply immersed in the processes of their institution, their vision becomes “blurred,” and they fail to recognize errors. Therefore, an external expert can help identify bottlenecks and point out any necessary changes. Since the expert is outside of the institution’s system, it is easier for them to notice weaknesses. We also provide additional tools for problem-solving and a methodology for developing the institution.
Updating the restaurant menu
The development of a kitchen and bar menu requires the attention of high-level professionals because the success of the institution directly depends on it. It is “expensive” to invest money and time in equipment and repairs, and receive negative feedback on the quality of food, drinks, and service. “Cheap” to attract highly paid professionals and get positive reviews and stable cash flow.
STANDARDIZATION OF ESTABLISHMENTS
A standard is a set of rules and criteria that a product, service, or event must meet to achieve an effective result. By applying standards in a public catering enterprise (such as a cafe, restaurant, coffee shop, bakery, canteen, etc.), we can achieve consistent quality of products or services, resulting in satisfied customers, positive feedback, and a stable cash flow.
REBRANDING
Rebranding refers to the process of restarting an establishment with a new concept, renovation, and new staff, among other changes. The purpose of rebranding may include repair and update, concept change, and restarting the control system.
One of the primary reasons for rebranding is to increase profit. If an establishment is not making a profit, it is essential to identify the problem and decide whether to fix it within the existing institution or rebrand.
