Food cost and menu pricing
Every item costed from real invoices, food cost percentage by item, and prices set on purpose instead of by feel. You leave with a costing sheet that reprices your menu when an ingredient goes up.
Restaurant consulting
Restaurant consulting for independent operators.
Food cost, menu pricing, your P&L, and the systems that let your team run the place the way you would. For single-location restaurants, food trucks, and owners getting ready to open. Based in Salt Lake City, on-site across the Wasatch Front, remote anywhere.
Operator-ledFlat project quotesNo long contracts
What I help with
The money side first, then the systems that hold it.
Most restaurant consulting starts with concept, design, or marketing. This starts with whether each plate makes money, because nothing else holds up if it doesn't.
Know your numbers
Your first real P&L, owner pay as its own line, and a weekly tracking routine that takes minutes, not a Sunday. Built so you actually keep doing it.
Systems and training
Recipes out of your head and onto cards, prep and ordering routines, and training that gets your team running the place the way you would. Built to run, not to babysit.
Opening with the math done
Break-even, pricing, and books set up before you sign a lease or open the window. For food trucks, pop-ups moving into a space, and first storefronts.
Who it's for
Built for independents, not groups with a finance department.
A good fit
- ✓Single-location independents running on instinct and ready to run on numbers.
- ✓Newly opened operators replacing guesswork with systems before bad habits set.
- ✓Pre-launch owners: trucks, pop-ups moving into a space, first storefronts.
- ✓Owners ready to grow without losing what already works.
Not the right fit
- ×Multi-unit groups with an in-house finance or ops team.
- ×Concept, interior design, or branding projects.
- ×Anyone looking for someone to run the restaurant for them.
How it works
Start free. Pay for the work only once we both know it's worth doing.
- 30 minutes, freeStrategy session
We look at your real numbers together and find the biggest leak first.
- Within a few daysScope and a flat quote
What we'd fix, what you'd walk away with, and one price. No hourly meter running.
- Weeks, not monthsThe work
Remote by default. On-site across the Salt Lake City area for bigger engagements.
- Yours to keepThe handoff
Costing sheets, P&L templates, and routines your team can run without me.
Learn it free on YouTube
See how I think before you ever get on a call.
The same methods I use with clients, taught on YouTube with real numbers. If the videos make sense to you, we'll work well together.
Where I work
Local where it matters, remote everywhere else.
Utah
Salt Lake City and the Wasatch Front
On-site and remote restaurant consulting from Ogden to Provo.
Salt Lake City restaurant consulting →
Anywhere
Remote, by video
Food cost, pricing, and P&L work runs just as well on a shared screen.
Questions
Restaurant consulting, straight answers.
What does a restaurant consultant actually do?
It depends on the consultant. Some focus on concept and design, some on marketing. Forgr focuses on the money side and the systems behind it: food cost, menu pricing, your P&L, recipes and training. There's a longer answer in what does a restaurant consultant do.
How much does restaurant consulting cost?
Every engagement gets a flat quote after a free 30-minute session, so you know the full number before anything starts. There's no hourly meter and no long contract.
Do you work remotely?
Yes. Most of the work runs over video with a shared screen. On-site visits are available across the Salt Lake City area for larger engagements.
What do I need to have ready?
Your menu, your prices, and access to what you pay suppliers. Invoices or bank statements are fine. Messy is normal. If you've never costed a plate, that's exactly where we start.
Do you use AI tools?
Where they save you time, yes, with guardrails. Everything gets taught by hand first so you can check the numbers, then set up to run faster. The YouTube channel shows exactly how.
Do you work with multi-unit groups?
No. Forgr is built for single-location independents and owners about to open. Groups with a finance team are better served elsewhere.
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Find the biggest leak in 30 minutes. Free.
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