Restaurants have more financial data than ever. Most still have no one responsible for it.
That's the belief this company is built on. Independent restaurants now generate POS, invoice, labor, accounting, and channel data every day. Very few have a dedicated person whose job is to turn that information into ongoing profit improvement. Large groups have that person. We are that person for everyone else.
Why Expo
On a busy night the expediter stands at the pass, reads every ticket, catches what's wrong before it goes out, and keeps the line moving. Nobody questions whether that job matters.
Almost no independent restaurant has the same person on the numbers. Invoices, schedules, comps, and payouts go out every day with nobody at the pass. Expo is that job, for the P&L. RPM is what we do: Restaurant Profit Management.
What we combine
The service is practical because it sits at the intersection of things that usually live in different people.
Restaurant operations
We know what a Tuesday close looks like, why the comp happened, and why the schedule template has two closers. The findings have to survive contact with a real kitchen.
Commercial finance
Prime cost, contribution margin, channel economics, vendor terms, merchant pricing. The money side of the business, read the way a CFO would read it.
Financial analysis
Baselines, variance, annualization, verification. Putting a defensible dollar figure on a change so management can decide whether it's worth chasing.
Data analysis
Getting Toast, xtraCHEF, QuickBooks, 7shifts, and the marketplace payouts to agree with each other, and finding the one line in ten thousand that moved.
Management accountability
A finding without an owner and a date is a report. We track who is doing what, follow up, and say plainly whether it worked.
How we work
Say what it's worth.
Every finding carries an annualized dollar value. If we can't quantify it, we say so.
Three things, not thirty.
Management gets the short list. The long list stays with us.
Keep the software you have.
We configure and use your systems. We recommend a new one only when the current one can't do the job.
Separate found from saved.
Identified, approved, implemented, verified. Four numbers, never blended.
Write for operators.
Short sentences. Specific figures. No slides.
Who you'll work with
[Founder name] spent [X] years [running / managing / financing] restaurants before starting this practice, including [placeholder: role at a multi-unit group, a finance role, or an operator background]. The idea for the service came from watching owners pay for excellent systems and never have time to read them.
[Optional second sentence on specific background: e.g. FP&A at a hospitality group, operations at a $X group, cost-control implementations at Y restaurants.]
Engagements are led directly by [Founder name]. Analysis support comes from a small team; the calls with management do not get delegated.
Someone should be watching the profit.
If that sounds like the job you've never had time to fill, let's talk.