The number, before you ask for it.
A private engagement for a restaurant group starts at $5,000 plus travel. A month of weekly sessions with a small standing group is $1,750. A single hour on your specific problem is $500.
The exact figure for a private date comes after a short call, because it genuinely depends on how many locations and how many people. You get it in writing before anything is booked, and it does not move afterwards.
Nobody else in this corner of the market publishes any of this. A quote form is a way of finding out what you will pay before telling you what it costs.
Everything, in order of size
Free — eight questions about how your operation actually runs, and a straight answer about where the week goes. Take the check. No email required.
$75 — a recording of a past workshop, plus the slides and worksheets. Sent immediately.
$195 — one seat at a live four-hour public workshop. The right buy if you have one or two people to train.
$500 — an hour, one to one, on whatever is costing you the most time. Bring the actual problem rather than a brief. No obligation afterwards.
$1,750 — a month of weekly sessions with a small standing group of operators. Same people each week, so nobody re-explains their business.
From $5,000 — a private day with your own team, on site or remote, plus travel. This page.
Published prices, because a quote form is a way of finding out what you will pay.
What actually moves the number
How many locations. One address is a day. Eleven stores that each need to end up doing the same thing is a different piece of work, and pretending otherwise would mean charging the single-site group for the complexity of the group.
How many people. A room of six and a room of thirty are not the same session. Past a certain size it stops being a conversation, and the conversation is the product, so a large group is usually two smaller days rather than one big one.
On site or remote. Remote costs less because it costs me less. For most groups it also works better - your GMs join from their own stores instead of closing shifts to drive somewhere.
Whether anything gets built. Plenty of groups leave the day with what they need and never call again, which is a good outcome. Building is separate work at a separate price, quoted when you know you want it rather than bundled in on the assumption that you will.
What it costs to do nothing
Worth putting beside it, because the alternative is never zero. If one manager rebuilds a report by hand every Monday morning, that is roughly two hours a week. Across eleven stores at a loaded twenty-five dollars an hour, that is about $28,600 a year in the one task, before anybody has argued about food cost.
That figure is arithmetic on numbers you can check against your own payroll, not a case study. Put your own hourly rate and your own store count in and see what you get.
More on working with a group
- Private AI training for restaurant groups
A day with your own team, on your own numbers.
- Rolling out across multiple locations
When every GM has invented their own version.
- Bring someone in, or use the person you have?
Including when the answer is your own spreadsheet guy.
- Implementation and building
When the answer is that somebody has to build it.
- Public workshops
The cheaper way in, if you have one or two to train.
Questions people actually ask
- Why is it 'from' $5,000 rather than a fixed price?
- Because a day for six managers at one address and a rollout across fourteen stores in three states are not the same job, and pricing them the same would mean overcharging the first one. $5,000 is the floor for a private day. You get the actual number after a call, in writing, before anything is booked.
- What moves the number?
- Four things: how many locations, how many people in the room, whether it is on site or remote, and whether you want anything built afterwards. Travel is billed separately at cost rather than marked up.
- Is there a cheaper way in?
- Yes, and often it is the right one. A seat at a public workshop is $195. An hour on the phone about your specific problem is $500. A recording of a past session is $75. If one of those solves it, I will tell you.
- What is the monthly option?
- $1,750 for a month of weekly sessions with a small standing group of operators. It suits a problem that is habit rather than knowledge - where people know what to do and it keeps not happening.
- Do you take a percentage of what you save us?
- No. Performance pricing sounds fair and turns into an argument about attribution six months later, when nobody can agree whether the saving was the tool or the new supplier. A fixed number that you can approve up front is cleaner for both of us.
- What if it does not work?
- Tell me and we will sort it out. There is a full refund up to 48 hours before any booked date, and after that I handle it case by case rather than pointing at a policy.
- Are there ongoing fees?
- None by default. There is no platform, no licence and nothing to log into. If you want me on a standing call while something beds in, that is a separate arrangement you opt into rather than a subscription that starts automatically.
Still deciding?
Take the free check first. Eight questions, no email, and you get the two things I’d fix in your building before I ask you for anything.