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Your next unit opens on a plan installed ahead of the date, not on any one person.

The fee

From $8,500

Ten weeks at six points of labor over target on a $3M unit is about $35,000.

Discovery is $1,000, separate from the install’s price, and it scopes the install and sets that price. If it concludes an install isn’t the fix, you’ll hear it, and the $1,000 bought the read that saved you the rest.

Timed to your opening date.

Your strongest operator is about to spend a quarter in one unit.

What this install fixes

An opening worked from memory runs on eighteen-⁠hour days in the building, and it teaches a new team in its first month that the standard is whatever gets through the night.

The install runs training to a daily agenda: the team opens and closes the restaurant on its checklists each day, service is taught as the start, the middle and the finish, and the last day ends in a mock service with half the team seated as guests before the two halves swap.

What it looks like now

  • The opening date is set and nobody has dated the training ramp backward from it.
  • Past openings ran over labor target for weeks before they stabilized.

Tell us what’s next.

Bring the opening date and the plan your last opening ran on.

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What gets installed

What gets built

  • The weeks-⁠out checklist: every department from licensing and IT to training and marketing, each task with an owner and a status, reviewed on the standing weekly call.
  • The opening calendar: key handover, inspections, deliveries, orientation, kitchen training and mock services, then soft opens by meal period stepped up by covers.
  • The pre-⁠opening budget by line: trainer payroll and travel, training labor, opening inventory and manager salaries from each hire date, with spend read against it every week.
  • The staffing matrix: hiring numbers by position from shifts, stations and an allowance for trainees who leave, run for the full restaurant and again for opening.
  • Leadership hire dates: the GM and chef hired about five months out, the managers and sous chefs a month later, each running a workstream before opening day.
  • The opening order: every vendor from quote to approval, contract and delivery schedule, one order guide per vendor, and first orders confirmed to delivery day.
  • The readiness check before training: equipment commissioned at full run, the POS programmed and tested, the stations, coolers and smallwares zoned and labeled, all product on site, and every new hire confirmed for orientation.
  • The training agenda: orientation to certification day by day, kitchen training by station, and a written final before each person certifies at their position in front of a manager.

What holds it

  • The weekly breakeven: the sales the unit has to clear each week, set against a forecast from the nearest comparable units’ sales by day, check average and traffic, and read against the daily P&L from the first close.
  • The thirty-, sixty- and ninety-⁠day reads: sales against the weekly breakeven and labor against target, dated before the first guest arrives and run by your GM and director of operations, with us on the thirty-⁠day read by call.

What it asks of your team: an hour a week on the standing call from whoever owns the opening on your side until the GM starts, then from your GM and director of operations, and your opening managers’ time in the build sessions and on the training days.

How it runs: discovery on site, then the standing weekly call, with us in the building for the training days through the mock service and any further time on site scoped into the price.

Start to handoff

  1. Discovery Assess the open against the weeks-⁠out checklist, find what nobody owns yet, and price the install to your timeline.
  2. Build Date every milestone from opening day back, and set the budget and the staffing matrix against those dates.
  3. Run Train the opening GM and leadership on the weeks-⁠out checklist and the daily agenda, then run the team’s training days through the mock service.
  4. Handoff Walk the weeks-⁠out checklist with the opening GM and turn the open over to your team.

If this is what’s next, bring it.

Free, and before any discovery.

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What this isn’t

It does not include:

Common questions

What does the New-⁠Unit Opening Readiness Install cost?

From $8,500. Concept complexity and how much time sits between now and your opening date set the final number. Fixed once discovery has scoped both, all-⁠in. Discovery is $1,000, on top of it.

What keeps the unit from sliding once you’re gone?

The handoff comes when the doors open, and the plan keeps running after it. Your GM reads the daily P&L after every close, and the opening leadership holds each soft-⁠open step until the numbers clear it, so a problem gets caught while the ramp can still absorb it. That running plan is what makes on-⁠site support during the open optional.

Construction is on schedule. Aren’t we ready?

The building will be ready. The restaurant runs on a second schedule the construction plan never carries: licensing, the leadership hires, the training days and the first orders, each with its own owner and date.

Who runs it

RANGE was founded by Jon Peck, who spent twenty years running multi-unit restaurant groups: eight brands built and scaled, twelve openings across six concepts in three years, and more than $100 million of annual P&L owned.