Why Choose Kezner Consulting for Your Nashville Restaurant?
Kezner Consulting is more than a restaurant consulting company. We’re your collaborative partners, working with you to understand your short- and long-term goals and helping your restaurant rise above others in Nashville’s competitive dining scene. Our team leverages their extensive knowledge of local and national market trends to create personalized marketing and business plans that streamline operations, increase profitability, and position you for future success.
How Kezner Consulting Adds Value to the Nashville Restaurant and Bar Industry
No matter your challenges or goals, our restaurant consulting services will help your restaurant succeed. Kezner Consulting’s customized solutions help restaurant management streamline operations and keep costs in check without sacrificing quality.
Feasibility Studies
We’ll conduct a feasibility study to assess how your restaurant fits in Nashville’s dining scene and a market analysis to benchmark your performance against local competition, market demand, and operational costs.
Restaurant Evaluation
Our team will review your space and suggest ways to maximize its use without overcrowding the dining room or sacrificing efficiency in the kitchen.
Menu Development
Menu development ensures your restaurant adapts to change and outperforms competitors with innovative offerings that fuse local ingredients and favorites with global trends.
Service Training
Staff are at the heart of a successful restaurant operation. We can design a training program that ensures staff delivers exceptional service and helps management retain and reward excellent staff.
Menu Engineering
We’ll find ways to strategically price and source your menu to help you balance premium ingredients with pricing expectations so you can optimize your menu and enhance your profitability.
Turnaround Consulting
Sagging sales and decreased foot traffic can hurt the bottom line. Kezner’s turnaround strategies can revitalize operations, helping your restaurant achieve sustainable growth.
Bar Consulting
The Country Music Capital of the World comes alive at night with a bar and music scene that’s as competitive as the dining scene. Kezner’s restaurant consulting solutions help you create a beverage program that helps your bar stand out in a crowded market.
Restaurant Opening Consulting
We’re your strategic partner in navigating the complexities of establishing a new restaurant business. From evaluating your business plan and keeping costs in check to sourcing local food suppliers and marketing to new customers, Kezner Consulting collaborates with you every step of the way to ensure a strong opening day that leads to ongoing success.
Operations Consulting
Our operations consulting strategies address local market challenges. We’ll find ways to streamline operations, overcome bottlenecks, and keep costs down without impacting quality or revenue.
Labor Cost Consulting
Inflation and pay are ongoing challenges for restaurants. We’ll look for solutions that help you balance fair wages with profitability, retain staff, and provide a delightful experience for guests.
Cost of Goods Improvement
Our strategic restaurant consulting solutions help businesses adapt to supply chain disruptions and fluctuating food costs to keep the menu affordable without sacrificing the bottom line.
Culinary Traditions in Nashville
The culinary scene defies categorization, making it a unique dining destination that ensures diners can only find these dishes in Nashville.
Hot Chicken: Supposedly, this chicken dish was invented to teach a cheating lover a lesson. Whether it worked or didn’t, Hot Chicken quickly became a Nashville staple. Chicken is marinated in a buttermilk and hot sauce brine, fried, and then covered in a spicy red-hot paste.
Meat n Three: Meat n Three ensures no diner is hungry. It’s a choice of meat — fried chicken, pulled pork, catfish, ribs, or roast beef — served with side dishes. The sides are usually vegetables, but mac and cheese and hushpuppies make the cut.
Goo Goo Clusters: Though this confectionary delight is available outside of Nashville, Goo Goo Clusters are uniquely Nashville. It’s a cluster of caramel, marshmallow nougat, and peanuts coated in milk chocolate.
Moon Pie: Another Nashville original, the classic version is a sandwich of round graham crackers with a marshmallow filling which is dipped in chocolate. Modern twists incorporate mint, banana, and pumpkin spice flavors.
Bushwacker: A bushwacker is strictly for adults! Nashville’s version of a boozy milkshake includes Bailey’s or Kahlua, cream, vodka, and dark rum..
Fried Catfish Sandwich: Nashville and catfish go hand-in-hand, and the fried catfish sandwich is a must-have favorite. It’s served on a buttered bun with coleslaw.
