Restaurant consulting in Scottsdale and Phoenix
Operator-led restaurant consulting for Scottsdale and Phoenix multi-unit groups across the Valley, from Old Town Scottsdale to Tempe and Chandler.
The models most Valley groups run on were built somewhere summer pays: the staffing plan, the prep system, the cash plan, even the debt schedule. Summer here is the off-season, and it is a hard one.
When the heat settles in for the long stretch, patios close, the seasonal residents are gone, and dining rooms that ran waits in March go quiet for months.
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.
Why RANGE
Staffed for the inverted calendar
The labor model, the seasonal staffing and the pricing get built with your managers in the spring and judged on what each unit keeps through August.
Tell us what’s breaking.
Thirty minutes with Jon. The fastest way to find out whether RANGE can help.
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Your P&L flatters you in February and tells the truth in July
Month by month, one location holds a survivable summer floor while another gives back most of its winter by Labor Day. Consolidated quarters average the difference away.
We read each unit against its own calendar, find where the trough is eating the year, and rebuild the labor model and cost structure month by month.
Every new unit gets underwritten in the wrong season
February’s waits make the second and third lease look safe. But a new unit’s first summer is the underwriting test, and a group that expands on winter numbers alone finds two restaurants losing money through the hot months instead of one.
We run the expansion case through August and build, with your managers, the labor systems that flex through the trough, so each new site is proven against its worst quarter before the group depends on it.
You’re the reason the standard holds through the season
You are on site in March for the waits and in August for the empty dining room.
The managers who stay through July learn to run the summer schedule and the fall rebuild themselves, so October starts on the standard without you carrying it.
For investors
What does the summer do to the annual margin?
Underwrite a Valley group on its March and the summer arrives after closing.
The read we give investors starts with each unit’s July, before anyone writes the check.
How the engagement runs in the Valley
Most of the engagement runs on a weekly cadence, wherever you are: the numbers, the scorecard, the standing call with your managers. Time on site is scoped to what the work needs and built into the fee, never metered on top.
What earns a trip here is July: the trough has to be seen once at full heat, not modeled from the winter numbers. RANGE is based in Dallas–Fort Worth, a direct flight away.
Every district runs the same inverted year differently
The heat sets the calendar for the whole metro, but each submarket rides it on its own terms: Scottsdale swings with the seasonal residents, Tempe with the ASU academic year, Arcadia moves least. Knowing a location’s own summer floor is the start of every plan here.
Old Town Scottsdale
Resort, nightlife, and tourism: high check tolerance and heavy seasonal-resident volume, which gives it a wider winter-to-summer swing than the rest of Scottsdale.
North Scottsdale (Kierland & Scottsdale Quarter)
Affluent, resort-adjacent, and retail-anchored, with seasonal residents and a high-check guest. Occupancy costs that demand winter volume, and a summer plan for when that volume leaves.
Downtown Phoenix & Roosevelt Row
The urban core: sports, convention, and a growing young-professional and arts crowd along Roosevelt Row. Event-driven swings layered under the seasonal one, so the schedule has to answer two calendars at once.
Tempe & Mill Avenue
A college town on the ASU calendar: young, value-minded, and volume-driven, with an academic year that empties in the same months the heat does. A deeper combined trough than the resort districts.
Arcadia & the Biltmore
Established Phoenix money: affluent neighborhoods with a year-round local guest. A steadier summer floor than Scottsdale’s.
Chandler & Gilbert
Fast-growing, master-planned family suburbs whose residents stay through the summer. A shallower trough than Scottsdale’s, at a lower check. The trade-off between the two is the Valley expansion decision in miniature.
If this is the problem, bring it.
Thirty minutes with Jon. The first call is free.
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A month with no guest still has a rent
What does this operation cost to run in a month when the guest largely isn’t here? Rent, debt service and the salaried bench stay when the seasonal residents leave, and that number, not the March peak, sizes the plan.
Built to the summer floor
What the year needs:
- Stepping labor down through the summer trough without gutting the team the season needs back.
- Tightening prep, purchasing, and menu structure so thin summer covers don’t compound into waste.
- Cash-planning the year so winter funds the trough deliberately, instead of the trough surprising the group every June.
- Bringing up managers who hold the standard through the months the director of operations can’t carry alone.
How we help
- Restaurant management consulting Senior operating judgment beside your team, accountable for what changes.
- Fractional COO A senior operator in the role until your own leader can hold it.
- Restaurant turnaround When comps slide, the fix is almost always operational. We build it with your managers.
- Restaurant growth strategy Where to grow next, sequenced to what your managers can already run.
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