How Kezner Consulting Supports New Restaurants
Our knowledgeable restaurant consultants will leverage their deep experience in the restaurant industry to provide the personalized solutions and insights you need to build a successful, profitable, and thriving restaurant business from the ground up. We are committed to helping you find operational efficiency, culinary distinction, and financial success.

Vision and Status Assessment
Our team starts with a clear understanding of your restaurant’s concept. We’ll conduct a comprehensive review of your business plan, help you see how it fits into the current culinary dining scene, and assist with selecting the right location for your own restaurant. Whether you’re starting with a blank slate or taking over an existing locale, we can help you design the space to ensure restaurant operations are smooth, create a kitchen layout that ensures operations efficiency, and walk you through the construction process.

Customized Consulting Solutions
Every restaurant and concept is unique, and Kezner’s restaurant consultants know this. Our team will create a tailored package of services and tools that are just as unique and will lay the foundation for a successful business that lasts beyond opening day. Our team will:
Review your financial plans and projections
Help you develop or engineer the menu
Offer insights as to which POS or other operational software to buy
Develop training programs
Provide branding and marketing support
Whether you’re starting a restaurant in Chicago, New York, or San Francisco, we’ll craft a custom but solid business plan that helps you achieve long-term success.

Continual Support
Kezner Consulting provides the ongoing support and resources you need well after opening day. Your consultant is there with coaching, tools, and services tailored to your concept that lay a strong foundation for continued success and help new restaurants and restaurant management navigate operational challenges as they happen, solidifying your presence in the market and ensuring sustainable, lasting growth.
Restaurant Opening Tools

Interactive Opening Checklist
Our Interactive Opening checklist is your go-to resource for the big day. It covers every aspect of opening your own restaurant — from initial ideas to sourcing designers and builders, training staff, and finally, opening day. This tool helps you assign tasks, request updates, and communicate with stakeholders. Visualize tasks as a spreadsheet, Gantt chart, or cards, and add files, photos, and comments, giving you total control over your restaurant startup journey.
Contact us today to learn more about our digital tools and how they can transform your business..