Restaurant Development

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Built for Restaurants, From Day One

Opening or relaunching a restaurant means building a beverage program alongside a dozen other moving pieces — and it needs to be ready by opening night, not figured out after. Restaurant Development is a dedicated engagement for independent restaurants and restaurant groups building a program from the ground up.

This is the restaurant-specific counterpart to Hotel Specialist work — the same depth of program-building, scoped to a single-concept or multi-unit restaurant instead of a full-service hotel property.

Restaurant beverage program development for a new Los Angeles restaurant opening

What a Restaurant Engagement Covers

Engagements typically start well before opening day, covering concept alignment, initial list build, staff hiring input, and pre-opening training, then continue into post-launch refinement once real service data comes in.

Services include pre-opening beverage program strategy, initial wine and cocktail list build, concept and price-point alignment, pre-opening staff training, multi-unit and restaurant group consistency standards, and post-launch program refinement.

From Concept to Opening Night

See Wine List Development

Restaurant engagements typically include full Wine List Development and Staff Training as core components, not add-ons.

Having worked distributor and retail sales as well as consulting, I understand both what a new restaurant needs to open strong and what a mature program needs to keep improving.