Menu Profit Plan

The full picture, and the plan to act on it.

The Snapshot shows you where the money's hiding. The Plan goes and gets it. Every item on your menu, analyzed against your own sales and your costs. Then a clear plan: what to keep, what to reprice, what to fix, what to cut.

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Decisions

What you'll know when this is done

The Plan exists so you can make decisions with confidence instead of instinct. When it's finished, you'll know:

What to raise, and by how much
What to leave alone
What to feature harder
What to move on the menu
What to rework
What to remove
Which popular items are quietly underperforming
Where unnecessary kitchen complexity is coming from

What Gets Delivered

Everything your menu is doing, on the table

State of the menu. Where your sales concentrate, where your margin concentrates, and where those two disagree. That gap is usually where the money is.

A full analysis of every item. Margin, kitchen complexity, and concept fit.

The four-group sort. Every item lands in one of four buckets: category stars, undiscovered favorites, improvement candidates, deletion candidates.

The strategic read. Where your sales concentrate, whether your menu moves guests toward higher-value orders, and how much menu you're carrying that isn't earning its place.

Pricing structure. How your price points line up, where the gaps are, and where there's room to move.

Pricing recommendations. Specific numbers with the reasoning behind each one. Not "raise prices," but which items, to what, and why.

Competitive pricing review. Your prices against the competitors you actually worry about, the ones you name.

Station load analysis. Where the menu is overloading one station and starving another.

Menu layout review. What your current design accidentally sells, and what it should be pushing instead.

The Standard

The Restaurant Nerd Four-Gate Test

Before any recommendation reaches you, it has to pass all four. This is how you know the work makes you money without costing you the guest.

Good for the guest

The guest still gets an experience worth the price.

True to the concept

It fits who you are, not some generic playbook.

Executable by the kitchen

Your team can actually run it on a busy night.

Better for the bottom line

It has to move the number, or it doesn't make the list.

If a recommendation fails any one of them, it doesn't make the deck.

What We Need From You

The analysis is only as good as the inputs

Your product mix report from the POS, 90 days minimum

Your menu, the way your guests actually see it

The two or three competitors you actually worry about

Google Business Profile access, so we can check your reviews for anything worth flagging

A short intake: station assignments, kitchen complexity, last price change, and what your concept hangs its hat on

Your recipes, documented and costed. If they're not, see below.

Scope covers in-restaurant and to-go. Third-party delivery is excluded unless your delivery menus are marked up to cover the fees. Food only, no beverage.

The Readiness Question

Are your recipes documented and costed?

If yes

We go straight to analysis.

If not

We build them first. You complete a structured recipe form and send one to three months of invoices. Every item gets a costed recipe card, and anything we assume or can't match goes to you for confirmation before any number is final. The cards are yours to keep. This runs $50 per item, $85 per batch or sub-recipe item, $500 minimum.

Either way, nobody guesses.

Before We Start

The data check

Before any analysis, we confirm your product mix is clean and accurate. Bad data makes for a worthless analysis, so this comes first.

If your data needs reconciling before it can be trusted, standard cleanup runs a flat $500. If your POS was never set up right and needs a full rebuild, we'll quote that separately before any work begins.

How It Works

A clear read, a live conversation, a plan you'll run

You get the deck and a recorded summary 48 hours before we talk, so you and your chef and your partner can read it on your own time. Then a 30-minute call to walk the decisions and lock what you're going to act on.

No 90-page report that dies in a drawer. Analysis delivered in seven to ten business days once we have your data.

A restaurant menu analysis reviewed on a laptop with a printed report

Step 1

Send your data

Step 2

Analysis

Step 3

Your deck and recorded summary arrive

Step 4

30-minute decision call

Step 5

90 days later, we measure

Analysis, action, measurement. Not a report that gets delivered and forgotten.

What You Keep

Yours to keep and act on

The recommendations. The full plan, yours to act on at your pace.
Costed recipe cards, if we build them. Every item documented and costed, with a confirmed exceptions list.

SAMPLE

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Menu Profit Plan · Item Scorecard

Sample Tavern · Entrees

Item	Sells	Margin	Group	Recommended move
Ribeye	High	High	Category Star	Feature it harder
House Burger	High	Low	Improvement	Reprice +$1.50
Duck Confit	Low	High	Undiscovered Favorite	Reposition on the menu
Garden Plate	Low	Low	Deletion Candidate	Cut or rework

One slide from the review deck. Fictional restaurant, illustrative.

After the Changes

90 days later, we measure what happened.

This isn't a report that gets delivered and forgotten. Ninety days after your changes go in, we pull the numbers again and put the before and after side by side. Did the repriced items hold. Did preference move where the menu now points. What did it mean in dollars. Included in every engagement.

Investment

Priced to the menu in front of us

Every menu is different, so every Plan is quoted after we see your menu and your mix.

Most fall between $4,000 and $10,000

Set by the size of your menu and the shape of the work.