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Restaurant operations consulting that delivers leadership and operational discipline when you need consistency, structure, and reliable accountability. We strengthen manager effectiveness, tighten operations, and help owners maintain control without getting pulled into daily operations.

Independent restaurants often struggle with fluctuating sales, rising costs, weak training, and managers who rely on habits rather than structure. You see the symptoms. You feel the pressure. The business needs restaurant management consulting that provides operating discipline and guided leadership.

Why restaurants stall

  • Owners get pulled into operations instead of leading the business.
  • Managers rely on habits from past roles instead of a structured playbook.
  • Staff performance drifts without clear expectations.
  • Financial decisions lack timely data.
  • Systems exist but no one reinforces them.
  • Minor issues compound into bigger costs.
  • Unclear leadership structure slows progress.

Why our clients win

  • Aligned goals. We succeed when you succeed.
  • Lower cost than hiring a senior operator while gaining a full team of specialists.
  • Root cause focus that prevents wasted effort.
  • Structured systems that give your managers clarity and accountability.
  • Long-term stability that strengthens your position in the market.

Every Support Engagement Begins With an Operational Diagnostic

Before we build systems, training, or leadership structures, we need to understand how the business is operating today. The Operational Diagnostic is a short engagement where we review your structure, systems, and materials so the solution we design fits your organization.

  • Full P&L review and financial performance analysis.
  • Labor model and deployment review.
  • Leadership interviews and capability evaluation.
  • Systems, routines, and checklist review.
  • Facility inspection.
  • Recipe, menu, and product quality review.
  • Culture, accountability, and communication diagnostics.

You receive a written report with prioritized actions and a recommended path forward. Custom operational support packages can be created once the diagnostic is complete. Investment range: ৳4,50,000 to ৳7,50,000 depending on size and operational complexity.

Quick Package Summaries

Support That Matches Your Restaurant’s Stage and Goals.
PackageBest ForFocus AreasDurationInvestment
Leader DevelopmentManagers who need structureLeadership, routines, P&L skills6 months৳2,00,000–৳3,00,000/mo
Leader Development ExtendedManagers needing deeper growthLeadership modules, planning1 yearadds ৳1,50,000-৳2,20,000/mo last 6 mo.
New Restaurant SupportRestaurants opened by us or new restaurants post-diagnosticSystems, quality, early discipline6 months৳4,00,000–৳6,50,000/mo
Operations Oversight Support
PackageBest ForFocus AreasDurationInvestment
Oversight Level 1Stable restaurants needing directionWeekly mentorship, financial reviewOngoing৳1,60,000–৳2,50,000/mo
Oversight Level 2Growing operations needing supportStaffing, training, planningOngoing৳2,00,000–৳4,50,000/mo
Oversight Level 3Restaurants needing deeper evolutionFacilities, menu, leadershipOngoing৳4,50,000–৳6,50,000/mo
Full Management AgreementOwners needing full operating partnerComprehensive operational control24 month commitment5% of sales /mo or ৳12,00,000 min

You Can’t Do It All.
And You Shouldn’t Have To.

Restaurants steer through the rearview mirror, meaning they need accurate data from what has already happened to change direction or adapt to negative trends. If this data is late or overly complex or non-existent, the restaurant flies by the seat of its pants and nothing is ever good enough for the owner…at least not without profit. Managers get stressed and staff begins to turn over.

Soon stability becomes elusive as cost-cutting measures are introduced to save the sinking ship. Menus are changed to lower COGS and labor. Managers are not replaced and teams are forced to work longer hours. Customers can smell the desperation, and regulars visit less often or simply vanish. Morale declines with guest count. Word gets out, and the business circles the drain until it eventually closes. The owner blames their teams or the economy or themselves for the failure…but it’s none of the above.

“Managers, like their employees, need guidance”.

What’s wrong is the independent restaurant lacks operating discipline, and the owner and managers don’t know how to get it. Managers, like their employees, need guidance. Even though they may be near the peak of your organizational pyramid, they, too, need to operate with a foundation that includes guiding principles, cultural aspirations, a solid operating structure, and accountability procedures. Without this bedrock, managers only mimic what they learned in previous jobs. Using a sports analogy, they’re running another coach’s playbook without that coach present to analyze, engage with, and adapt it to the new team. It doesn’t take long for that management team to unravel and for chaos to ensue.

When Great Restaurants Go Stale:

The Problems with Owner Oversight
Business owners create businesses to generate profit, not to be tied to a position. When an owner is pulled into managing daily operations, they now have a job, and the venture can turn sour. Entrepreneurs are owners, not managers, and inevitably this will show.
Entrepreneurs are idea people. They’re good at generating high-level ideas and designing money-making structures, but the ‘nuts and bolts’ (or ‘salt and pepper’) are best left to those who specialize in that. To put it another way, we operate with the precision and skill of a surgical team so you can focus on your overall good health.

Owners often place too much trust in their current staff, expecting them to self-police and deliver new, superior results. Instead, this invariably leads to a revolving door in search of the “right” manager.

Even in high-caliber store-level leaders, managers’ focus on delivering results is constrained by their ability to deploy processes developed by others. They unintentionally pass off their familiarity as their capability to identify and implement systems that suit the business (“Fantastic! You worked at Cheesecake Factory so you can make our place run like that!”) Since people don’t know what they don’t know, if(when) a manager doesn’t deliver, the owner views the manager as failing. Never quite able to achieve ownership’s goals, the manager becomes frustrated, the venue struggles, and good people and families get hurt. Soon the place is known as a manager grinder.
Restaurant owners often tell themselves that snagging that one seasoned Director of Operations is all it takes. Without the benefit of a team approach to oversight, hiring a rainmaker D of O often merely adds an unnecessarily high salary to your budget without solving the problem.
Poor performance stresses the owner and mires them so deeply in the daily grind that they can’t focus on what they’re good at, which is creating new businesses. Eventually, the shine comes off the penny and owners can’t wait to cash out.

Our Support Package Details

Leader Development

Clarity for Your Managers, Consistency for Your Business.

We develop your manager with structure, clarity, and the tools needed to lead effectively. You get steady progress and measurable improvement.

Duration: This is a 6-month program designed to build lasting leadership structure and discipline.

Included in the 6-month program:

  • Define roles and AORs.
  • Clarify expectations for the owner and manager.
  • Performance evaluation and Helm test.
  • Six-month development plan.
  • Manager routines and meeting structures.
  • Goal setting and action planning.
  • Hiring and training guidelines.
  • Financial analysis guidance.
  • Weekly one-on-one sessions via Zoom.
  • Monthly P&L review.
  • Subordinate evaluation guidance.

Extended 1-year program adds:

  • Leadership development modules with mentor discussions.
  • Sales-building plan development.
  • Budget development training.
  • Customized Management School built and delivered by the manager.

Extended Duration: The extended program is a 12-month engagement delivered in two phases.

Pricing: 6-month program: ৳2,00,000 to ৳3,00,000 per month. 1-year program: adds 6 months of mentorship for an additional ৳1,50,000 to ৳2,20,000 per month.

 

Oversight Support – 3 Level Options

Ongoing Growth, Measured Results: Your Next Level of Restaurant Support.

This program protects early momentum from the start. It applies automatically to restaurants supported by us. If the restaurant was opened by another team, an Operational Diagnostic ensures the foundation is solid before support begins.

Duration: All three oversight levels are ongoing, with no long-term contract.

Shared across all levels:

  • Weekly Zoom one-on-one with GM.
  • Monthly P&L review and cost control planning.
  • Quarterly onsite visit for 2 to 3 days with one or two consultants.
  • Travel billed at actual cost.

Level 1. Stabilize And Maintain:

  • Labor discipline.
  • COGS review.
  • Sales direction.
  • Manager development.
  • Conflict management.
  • Team building.

Engagement Length: Ongoing monthly support with quarterly onsite visits. Investment: ৳1,60,000 to ৳2,50,000 per month.

Level 2. Strengthen And Advance:

  • Monthly staffing assessment.
  • Hiring plan development.
  • Quarterly training program maintenance.
  • Annual sales planning.
  • Budgeting assistance.

Engagement Length: Ongoing monthly support with quarterly onsite visits and annual planning. Investment: ৳2,00,000 to ৳4,50,000 per month.

Level 3. Optimize and Expand:

  • Facilities inspections and planning.
  • Menu analysis and development.
  • Management team evaluation.
  • Leadership development plans.
  • Marketing and social media assessment.

Engagement Length: Ongoing monthly support with quarterly onsite visits and full annual planning cadence.

Investment: ৳4,50,000 to ৳6,50,000 per month.

New Restaurant Support

Ensuring the Right Start, Every Time.

This program protects early momentum from the start. It applies automatically to restaurants supported by us. If the restaurant was opened by another team, an Operational Diagnostic ensures the foundation is solid before support begins.

Duration: This is a 6-month post-opening program. When it ends, you decide whether to take full operational control or move into an oversight package.

Included in the 6-month program:

  • Weekly one-on-ones with the GM via Zoom.
  • Monthly P&L review with GM and owner.
  • Quality review of food, beverages, recipes, maintenance, and training.
  • Staffing assessments and department development plans.
  • Guidance for managers to master their AORs.
  • System adherence and corrective planning.

Pricing: 6-month program: ৳4,00,000 to ৳6,50,000 per month. Quarterly onsite visits included. Travel billed at actual cost.

Full Management Agreement

Beyond Oversight: Comprehensive Operational Leadership for Owners.

Full operational control for owners who want a comprehensive operating partner. This is a distinct engagement, not a continuation of Oversight.

  • Management labor budget at or above 9.5 percent.
  • Third-party accounting at or above ৳40,000 per month.
  • Proper leadership staffing.
  • Operational Diagnostic and correction of deficiencies before start.

Duration: This is a 24-month structured operating engagement, followed by ongoing support under an incentive-based structure.
Fee: 5 percent of sales or ৳12,00,000 per month minimum. 24-month term.

Frequently Asked Questions

FAQ

Independent restaurants without corporate infrastructure, whether single-unit or multi-unit.
Operational Diagnostics apply to existing restaurants and new restaurants not opened by Blue Orbit.
We strengthen, support, and deepen their impact so they stay longer and deliver more.
Leader Development and New Restaurant Support have end dates. Oversight and Management Agreements are long-term partnerships.
Usually 15 to 30 days depending on consultant availability.

Yes. We support multi-unit independents that need structure and alignment.

Most managers respond well once expectations are clear and support is consistent.
Yes. We create custom plans after completing the Operations Assessment.


Ready to Strengthen How Your Restaurant Operates?

You get clear direction, consistent oversight, and the support your team needs to run at a higher level without adding work to your plate.

TESTIMONIALS

What Our Client’s Say

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"HEC transformed our vision into a well-structured hospitality business. Their expertise in concept development, operational planning, and strategic execution helped us create a café that delivers an exceptional guest experience while maintaining efficient day-to-day operations."

Khairul Anik Sarker Founder Ratio cafe N Bistro

Khairul Anik Sarker

Founder, Ratio Café N Bistro

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"Working with HEC was a seamless experience from concept to execution. Their attention to operational efficiency, hospitality planning, and business strategy enabled us to establish a distinctive restaurant brand with confidence."

Abul Kalam Sarker Founder Kuro

Abul Kalam Sarker

Founder, Kuro

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4.9/5.0

"HEC brought professionalism, creativity, and practical hospitality expertise to our project. Their strategic guidance, operational insights, and commitment to excellence played a significant role in building a strong foundation for our business."

Ariful Islam Hamza Founder NOSH

Ariful Islam Hamza

Founder, NOSH

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"HEC understood our vision and translated it into a functional, guest-focused hospitality environment. Their layout consultancy and operational planning ensured our café delivers both an outstanding customer experience and efficient daily operations."

Mr. Anwar Hossain Founder Karai Cafe

Mr. Anwar Hossain

Founder, Karai Cafe

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4.9/5.0

"The team's hospitality expertise and structured approach exceeded our expectations. From business planning to operational strategy, HEC provided valuable insights that helped us strengthen our brand and prepare for sustainable growth."

Mr. Maksudur Rahman Founder Bengali Express

Mr. Maksudur Rahman

Founder, Bengali Express

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"HEC successfully combined innovative hospitality concepts with operational excellence. Their strategic consultancy, interior planning, and execution support helped create a truly immersive dining destination that stands out in a competitive market."

Mr. Jamal Ivan Director Dune Dhaka

Mr. Jamal Ivan

Director, Dune Dhaka

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