Your Recipe For Success
Want to open your dream restaurant? Chef G.S. Argenti can help. Specializing in Italian fast-casual to fine dining concepts having Chef Argenti on your side can save you tens of thousands of dollars and years of toil. Eliminate the learning curve and start your venture with a serious advantage.
Chef Argenti can aid with menu selection based on your concept, recipe development with proper costing and profit margins built in as well as, proper equipment purchases, and effective marketing to make your vision a success.
Menu Selection
The proper mix of appetizers, salads, entrees and desserts is key to ensuring your success in the restaurant business. You want to be sure your kitchen is not overwhelmed, dishes are prepared expertly so food tastes and looks great and you’re making the proper margins on the dishes so your concept can thrive.
Recipe Development and Costing
Food has to taste good, look good and still be profitable. It’s a daunting task especially when you are trying to get your concept off the ground. By letting a professional and specialist in a particular area help you, it frees up your time to get other areas of your business in order. Permits, licenses and the endless laundry list of things that have to get taken care of before you open the doors.
Chef Argenti can help you create easy to follow standardized recipes that are costed out along with plate presentations to make your menu not only delicious, consistent and appealing to clients but most importantly – profitable. Because if you cannot show a profit there is no sense in being in business.
Proper Equipment Acquisition
You don’t know what you don’t know. It’s that simple. Should you purchase one oven over another? If you are opening a pizza place should you get a wood oven over gas? Is there a difference in the final product? Why should you choose one over the other? What type of refrigeration do you need? How will you set up the kitchen in order to optimize space and efficiency? If you think a salesperson will tell you the truth, you’ve got another thing coming.
You need someone on your team who knows and understands all of these nuances. Having Chef Argenti as a consultant in just this area could potentially save you hundreds of thousands in actual costs let alone frustration. If anything having a second opinion to verify you’ve made the right choice could be the most sensible thing you can do.
Marketing
The menu is set, the staff is trained and you’ve turned on the sign. Where are the people? How do you get guests to spend more? How do you get them to come back? How do you reach out and harvest new customers? If the food is good, they will come, that’s true, but there are strategies you can put into place to ensure you get a never ending flow of repeat business and have these loyal customers introduce new customer to your business.
It’s a simple but not a simplistic process. When you put systems that work in place you ensure your longevity. But what systems? It all depends on your concept, location and client base. A restaurant on the strip in Las Vegas has to market differently than a local restaurant serving a community. Chef Argenti can help you craft a strategy that can be systematized and demonstrably profitable.
