Prime Cost
Learn how to calculate prime cost for independent restaurants in 2026. Get the formula, labor cost steps, and reduction strategies. Start improving.
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Sep
Blog
09
Sep
When Restaurant Performance Stalls
Restaurant consultants fix profitability, operations, and growth. Explore what they do, restaurant consulting fees, and how to pick the right expert.
20
Aug
The Fiber Economy
Several months ago, the TNI consulting team were working with a West Coast, multi-unit fast-casual concept, one of those brands that ha...
20
Aug
The Little Boy, the Giraffe, and the Power Pyramid
A few years ago, a family returned home from a long weekend at The Ritz-Carlton, Amelia Island and discovered, with the cold certainty ...
20
Aug
Loved is not the same as Chosen
If you don't respond within 5 minutes of a call, conversion drops 80%. By morning, they've already called someone else. The businesse...
20
Aug
You Are What You Peptide
A few months ago, I found myself in a conversation I didn't entirely expect. I was sitting with the head of food and beverage for a maj...
20
Aug
The 250-Year Mashup
Birria ramen, West African spice on Southern comfort food, and why “American cuisine” was always a fusion experiment. The most American...
20
Aug
When a Pendant Becomes a P&L Problem
Last week, Prada announced Palestinian singer Saint Levant, born Marwan Abdelhamid in Jerusalem and raised partly in Gaza, as a global ...
20
Aug
The Blue Shift
Water covers 71 percent of the planet. It supplies roughly 2 percent of humanity’s calories. That is not a law of physics. It is an acc...
20
Aug
The Restaurant Choice Journey 2026
The restaurant consumer has not disappeared; they have become more selective, more value-conscious, and considerably harder to convert....