Consulting / Concept, Menu & Opening
Open it right the first time.
Concept development, menu design and opening support for restaurants, fine dining rooms, cocktail bars, event venues and food halls. Built by people who've opened and run all of them.
Concept development
Positioning, guest, price point and the story. What makes it worth the drive, and what it isn't.
Menu development
Menus that read chef-driven and execute with the team you can actually hire. Engineered for margin from day one.
Recipe cards and specs
Kitchen and bar specs your team can follow, costed and loaded into your inventory system.
Kitchen and equipment
Equipment schedules with real pricing, layouts that match the menu, and smallwares lists.
Buildout project management
Keeping contractors, permits, branding, menu, training and FF&E on one timeline with clear done-or-not-done milestones.
Pre-opening and training
Job descriptions, service standards, training plans and the operations manual.
Fine dining and cocktails
We run award winners, not just plans for them.
Our own fine dining room, The Black Pearl, has earned more than 40 awards and back-to-back Best All-Around Chef honors from Creative Loafing. Sonder Social Club opened as Dunedin's first craft cocktail bar and was named the best cocktail bar in Tampa Bay by both Creative Loafing and the Tampa Bay Times in 2020. We bring that standard to your concept.
