Stephen Lipinski Consulting
The "Business" of Restaurants
Engage a range of services designed to help your restaurant thrive in a competitive market. From developing actionable business plans to optimizing your menu design and managing costs, my solutions are tailored to your specific needs. Let me guide you through strategies that enhance profitability, streamline operations, and foster long-term success.
Explore the services below to see how I can support your restaurant’s growth.
With decades of experience in both managing and teaching the business of restaurants, I bring an unequaled combination of hands-on expertise, strategic thinking, and academic insight to every project I undertake. My journey from restaurant owner to educator, coach, and profitability expert has shaped my proven approach to enhancing profitability and achieving operational success.
Learn more about my background and how I can help your restaurant reach new heights.
Business Plan Development
Let's design a plan to build a strong financial and operational foundation for your business. In reality, the best business plan is one that forces the operator to fully understand every component of business success. It is valuable and hard work.
Menu Engineering
Optimize your menu as the single best marketing tool to boost profitability by leading customers to buy those items with the highest profit margins while keeping it appealing and interesting to customers.
Margin Analysis
We can examine cost behavior as it relates to menu pricing, creating an understanding of the basic principles and forms of pricing, pricing psychology and margin analysis. We'll review the calculations necessary to conduct pricing and margin analysis and the decision process that emerges.