The decisions you make before opening your restaurant shape what happens after it. Your concept, location, menu economics, financial model, systems, operations, leadership, and guest experience are all interconnected.
By the time these problems show up in cash flow, guest reviews, staff turnover, or owner burnout, they are far too expensive to fix.
Built in the Right Order
As we tell all of our clients, a successful restaurant is not built on food or service alone. It is built on sequence, people, processes, and profit. And this is where it begins.
The best part is; you remain in control throughout the entire journey. KRG steps in when needed and steps back when you are ready.
Start With Validation
Before you write a business plan, raise capital, sign a lease, or move deeper into development, the business model needs to be pressure tested.
The KRG Roadmap validates your business model, assesses the risk, and establishes the sequence for what comes next, including budget direction, founder readiness, operational readiness, and financial outlooks.
All of the information needed to help protect your investment.
Beyond Validation
Build Foundations with KRG Method™
Build the strategic and investment-ready infrastructure: feasibility study, conceptual playbook, prototype playbook, brand strategy playbook, tech stack playbook, marketing playbook, business plan, financial playbook, and investor decks.
Receive Advice with KRG Ignite™
The done-with-you option. Get coached through the entire pre-open process each week with structure, accountability, and experienced guidance. Avoid chaos, protect momentum, and execute the playbooks with precision.
Build Out Your Vision with KRG Legacy™
The done-for-you option. Bring KRG deeper into the project for end-to-end coordination and on-site pre-open execution. Move from strategy to open-ready with control, structure, and accountability.
Beyond Opening Day
Stabilize with KRG Icon™
Stabilize the restaurant after opening throughout the first year with leadership coaching, systems refinement, and financial discipline.
Scale with KRG Alumni™
Continue scaling years two through five with advanced coaching, masterminds, resources, and strategic COO / CRO support.
Beyond the Sequence
In addition to our recommended pre-open sequence, we offer customized packages and tailored solutions to match your unique needs and pace. This may also include 1:1 Impact Sessions, Operator Intensives (assess + strategy + coaching), transformational Mindset Coaching, and Fractional COO/CRO partnerships.
Whether you need clarity, execution, or leadership support — we meet you where you are.
Built on Restaurant Experience
KRG brings 15+ years of real-world restaurant experience, detailed strategy, and measurable outcomes to every engagement.
8–16 Weeks of Preventable Delays Avoided
Validation, structured planning, impactful decisions, and coordinated execution reduce redesign, stalled approvals, missed dependencies, and other pre-open setbacks.
5% – 10% of Project Capital Protected
Identify budget gaps, location constraints, kitchen design conflicts, equipment errors, and undercapitalization before expensive commitments become difficult to reverse.
Moving Beyond Industry Averages
KRG helps your restaurant outperform industry averages through stronger decisions, disciplined systems, leadership, and sustainable profitability.
10 – 20 Reclaimed Owner Hours Every Week
Replace owner-dependent firefighting with accountable leaders, clear decision rights, scorecards, systems, and operating rhythms that keep the restaurant moving.
6 – 12% Profit Margin Improvement
Strengthen menu economics, labor deployment, purchasing, revenue capture, and operating discipline while building a restaurant prepared to reach 15-20% plus profit margins.
“As a new restauranteur, I found exactly what I was looking for in Doug Radkey and KRG Hospitality. His expertise in the industry far exceeded my expectations and has provided me with the resources to succeed and thrive. I am beyond grateful”
– The Pinery
Let’s start with a conversation about your project, priorities, and next steps.
Bar & Restaurant Start-Up Cost Guide
Since 2019, this guide – updated annually – has been downloaded thousands of times by aspiring bar and restaurant owners, developers and contractors, hospitality consultants and coaches, and lenders and investors in the F&B industry. If you’re starting a coffee shop, QSR, bar, restaurant, or nightclub – this guide is for you!
Turn This Way Mindset Podcast
Mindset is everything in hospitality, and Jennifer Radkey is here to help you master it. On the Turn This Way Podcast, Jennifer dives deep into topics like mental resilience, leadership, and motivation. Discover actionable insights and empowering discussions that will help you cultivate a mindset geared toward growth and success.
Hacking The New Normal
The hospitality industry has changed forever, and Hacking the New Normal provides the insights you need to adapt and thrive in the post-pandemic era. This book explores how to hit the reset button on your business, covering new operating models, guest expectations, and ways to innovate. Get ready to reimagine hospitality and make the most of the new opportunities ahead.
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