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RestaurantWorx is the leading restaurant and hospitality industry Coaching firm, utilizing both a Coaching and Consultative approach to helping our clients achieve their business success.

We are the experts you call when you need to:

  • Open a New Business
  • Design a New Concept For Success
  • Negotiate a Lease or Conduct a Site Selection Process or Review
  • Create a New Menu or Re-engineer an Existing Menu
  • Innovate Your Production Model
  • Turnaround a Failing Business
  • Establish Effective Cost Controls & Systems
  • Create a Business Plan
  • Engineer a Better Service Model
  • Effectively Brand Your Business
  • Develop Additional Sales or Revenue Programs
  • Develop or Become a More Effective Leader in Your Business
  • Hire, Train, Coach and Retain Managers & Staff More Effectively

Our Experience

We are recognized experts in the hospitality profession with over 400 years of combined success at planning, developing and executing strategies for delivering dramatic results in a wide variety of franchise, independent and corporate hospitality industry challenges in the both the  United States and internationally

These include new store openings, turnarounds and new market development for a variety of venues including; casual-fine dining restaurants, on and off-site catering facilities, banquets, clubs as well as casual full-service, quick casual and fast food concepts.

RestaurantWorx has over the course of nearly four (4) decades seen the good, the bad and the ugly in literally hundreds of businesses worldwide. We have learned from the inside, through direct experience from working with some of the biggest, smallest & best run chains in the world, as well as our own ownership experience and work with independents and franchisees, what works, what doesn't and how to map out a strategy for achieving the goals you set for your own success.

Our Credibility

Our expert articles and opinion pieces have been featured in several industry websites, magazines, blogs and forums including:

  • RestaurantEdge.com
  • FoodService.com
  • Smart Money Magazine
  • Ezinearticles.com
  • Alltop.com
  • Industry Newsletters for Such Companies as Sysco & U.S. Foodservice
  • RestaurantReport.com
  • Restaurant Startup & Growth Magazine
  • American Express' Briefing Newsletter
  • State and Local Restaurant Association Magazines & Newsletters
  • Nation's Restaurant News, and tons more!

Our Associations

We are members of the following groups and industry associations:

  • The Texas Restaurant Association
  • The California Restaurant Association
  • The Illinois Restaurant Association
  • The National Restaurant Association
  • The Society of Hospitality Management
  • The Professional Business Coaches Alliance
  • The International Council on Hotel, Restaurant and Institutional Education

Our Approach

Our philosophy is that fixing problems or resolving issues isn't enough. That real improvement requires innovating both your business and your business paradigms by bridging the gap between your actual performance and your vision for success.

Our Coaching and Consulting Programs will enhance your leadership and management abilities as well as your understanding of the restaurant business in such a dramatic way that you will capture new guests, retain regular guests, grow your business, build your brand, kick-start your top line and realize more from your bottom line! Guaranteed!

We believe you have to know where you are today in order to map out a route to where you want to be tomorrow or next month or next year. We've helped literally hundreds of owners reach the destinations they set out for their businesses by mapping the routes through which they can arrive faster and more successfully. We make it part of our business to be current on roadblocks, detours, shortcuts, trends, systems, etc. And as in all of our relationships with clients, our interest is NEVER about the short term!

Just as a Coach adds value by helping athletes stay fit and refine their technique and strategy, we add value by helping Restaurant Owners, Operators and Managers determine where improvement dollars are optimally invested. We help you discover how your performance measures up to, and how it might be made to exceed, that of the best. Andwe help you plan for the future by choosing the most suitable path for growth that fits into your specific long range plans for success!

These are extremely powerful and intense programs!

Our Philosophy

Your Restaurant Business is not a static enterprise. It is changing and evolving constantly. Top ownership articulates vision and strategy. But who can gauge whether a business is ready for the future?

Who can gauge the cost of a wrong decision, a wrong investment, of waiting too long to change?

The RestaurantWorx approach is centered on our "Growth Enablement" model which means growing sales and implementing better cost structures in order to create greater value for both owners and guests. Real-world experience and knowledge is essential for successful value development. We know by reviewing and analyzing the past, taking stock of the present, and projecting as best we can the future in terms of both opportunities to be seized and risks to be minimized or avoided. And because our industry is in constant change we believe our client's businesses need to continuously evaluate their ownership and return, organization and leadership, market and flexibility, products and services, productivity and profitability.

Our Coaching & Consultative Style

We Coach and consult by example, working hand-in-hand with owners, managers, operators and even staff, to institutionalize change and build a culture of high-performance and success into your business. We accomplish this by Coaching you and your staff in problem solving frameworks and techniques throughout our time together. We also Coach business owners and staff through formal and informal coaching sessions conducted in our office, on the phone, in our workshops or in your restaurant.

Call us to schedule a free consultation, call us at 877-535-2324.

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My name is Jeffrey Summers and I am a 27 year veteran of creating, operating, Coaching and consulting with successful food service concepts that inclu... (more)

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