Restaurant Software - For RestTech companies, we help with go-to-market strategies, product, domain knowledge, networking and business development.

Restaurant Brands - For brands, we help restaurant leadership keep up, solve problems and benefit from integrated solutions. As your RestTech strategy consultant, we help you plan ahead, save you time and money.

Investors - For private and institutional investors, we advise on trends and opportunities, make introductions and assist with due diligence.

We work on an hourly, day rate or retained basis, to provide professional services in person or on demand for short term and extended time frames.

Problem: Accelerate access to the U.S. market. An established UK-based restaurant technology company needed to secure key clients quickly to establish credibility and substantiate a return on their investment.

Solution: After sustained product and strategy meetings and consulting sessions, we agreed to make key senior-level introductions that resulted in on-site presentations with a brand clients. We attended these meetings and provided feedback to the restaurant technology company, and shared our perspective with the brand. We also provided a unique perspective on the U.S. market and brand sensitivities.

Result: The restaurant technology client secured two new brand clients, worth over $1.2 million in annual revenue and leveraged these two "logos" to accelerate conversations with other brands in the U.S. marketplace.

Problem: Tech stack needed a refresh. A recently acquired and established restaurant brand with over 100 locations, had out-dated solutions for a modern era. They needed a strategy not just new technology software products.

Solution: After sustained strategy meetings and consulting sessions, we worked with internal teams in marketing, finance, operations and technology to develop a plan to refresh their entire technology stack over two years. This included a deep dive into who the customer is today and will be tomorrow and what mattered most to the brand.

Result: The restaurant chain client and RestTech agreed that the start place for their tech-stack refresh strategy was the central navigation brain for all data and analytics that touched every location and affected every manager daily. We vetted and recommended several solutions that would meet this need, engaging with both the restaurant technology vendor and the brand clients to a successful outcome and implementation.

Problem: Limited Domain Expertise. Many investors avoid the restaurant sector because they have limited domain expertise in this the sector, or have heard of the challenges and extended sales cycles. They were considering an investment in a restaurant technology company and needed advice for their investment committee.

Solution: We prepared and presented a broad and current view of the restaurant industry, its method for investing in technology, how the sales strategies work best, and who to target. We also engaged with the investment candidate to conduct diligence on their prospective investment, product, team and technology, and define a strategy.

Result: They invested in the startup and recommenced to their new portfolio client that they retain RestTech as a strategic advisor.

Problem: No System Implementation Expertise. Operators are investing millions in new, next generation, back office solutions like Fourth.com, Restaurant365.com among other market leaders. But, the IT and accounting staff are busy with their day jobs and, have little or no experience implementing complex systems. These implementations require a project management mindset, with skills and experience in finance, accounting, data migration, API integrations, and restaurant technologies, among other expertise. These system vendors need to have a trained (certified if that is available) professional on the client side to interface with to ensure a smooth, efficient implementation

Solution: These system vendors need a systems-trained (certified if that is available) professional on the client-side to interface with to ensure a smooth, efficient implementation process. This consultant will represent the best interests of the client (restaurant brand) but as the liaison with the vendor while on-site and remotely, also training the accounting and IT staff on best practices.

Result: Restaurant operators are investing millions of dollars to acquire, migrate and benefit from next generation back office solutions. How the system is implemented is mission critical, including speed in a managed implementation process.