Restaurant, cafe, & bar owners
Are your systems limiting your business from growing?
If you want help growing your profit, building systems that run the building without you & opening more locations, then this is for you.
It is a six month program where you install the TSE Operating System™, the one Alex Yanovsky used to run 735 restaurants, with your own numbers on the screen and reviewed live on every call.
For owners doing $1M a year or more · By application
What we focus on
Increase profitability
Prime costs, labour, waste, the menu, and the numbers nobody owns. Your Personalized Scaling Roadmap finds the margin that is leaking and says where to recover it, in what order.
Install management systems
The org chart, seats with outcomes, the 7-Step Management System, the daily Result, Analysis, Action report, and a meeting rhythm that teaches. The building stops depending on you.
Scale into new locations
Once the operation runs on reports, expansion is a repeatable process: the next site, the next market, the next hire, with the numbers that say the model is ready to copy.
What people are saying:
Results vary and are not typical. Outcomes depend on each owner's business, market, team and effort. We provide education and coaching, not guaranteed revenue, profit or growth.
TSE Operating System™
(here is how it works)
The CEO dashboard
This week's numbers
Week 8
| Metric | Actual | Target | Status | Owner |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The floor | ||||
| Covers | 412 | 450 | Yellow | Dana |
| Average check | $38.20 | $40.00 | Yellow | Dana |
| The kitchen | ||||
| Food cost | 31.4% | 29.0% | Red | Marco |
| Labour | 27.8% | 28.0% | Green | Marco |
| The month | ||||
| Contribution per cover | $11.40 | $12.00 | Yellow | Priya |
| Covers to breakeven | 9,140 | 9,000 | Green | Priya |
Worked example. Your rows are your own numbers.
Step 1: Systemize Numbers
The Problem:
You know what the month did after the month is over. You can say what you took, but not what a cover earns you, what it costs to open the doors, or how many covers you need before you make a dollar. So every decision is a guess with a good story attached.
The Fix:
We start with your unit economics: contribution per cover, the nut, breakeven in dollars and in covers, and the ceiling the model puts on you. Then the metric tree, so every number on the floor hangs off the one you are trying to move.
Then we answer two questions:
- “Is it the operation or the model?” (the verdict)
- “Which number moves first?” (the worst one, with a playbook)
The Goal:
You know your ceiling and what it costs to lift it. You can name the one number you are moving this quarter and say what it is worth in dollars.
The org chart
Two locations, one structure
Worked example
The rooms come first. The names go in afterwards, and every one of them is graded on something you can point at.
Step 2: Systemize People
The Problem:
You hired managers and it did not give you your week back. The building still runs through you, because nobody was ever told in writing what they are allowed to decide, and nobody is graded on anything you could point at.
The Fix:
We draw the structure the business needs before we talk about who sits in it. A company will be a hundred years old and still have a kitchen room, a floor room, a finance room. The people in them change a hundred times.
Then every seat gets a scorecard: what this person owns, what good looks like, what gets measured weekly. Then the replacement ladder, so every key seat has somebody being trained behind it, starting with yours.
The Goal:
Every critical job has a name on it and that name is not yours. When somebody leaves you have a bench instead of a crisis.
The process map
Opening shift: the kitchen
Worked example
And the rhythm that carries it
Daily
The RAA
15 min
Weekly
Manager review
60 min
Monthly
The numbers
Half day
Quarterly
The plan
Full day
Step 3: Systemize Daily Management
The Problem:
The systems exist on paper and die in practice. Reports get written for three weeks and stop. The weekly meeting gets cancelled the week it is busy, which is the week it mattered. Nothing holds without a rhythm under it.
The Fix:
We write the shift down the way it actually runs, decisions included, and then we put a cadence around it so it keeps running:
- The daily RAA (Result, Analysis, Action), so the same numbers reach the same named people every day and somebody acts on them
- The 7-Step Management System, so a manager runs a graded loop rather than a to-do list
- The process maps, written by the manager who grades the job
- The controller, last, because it verifies everything above it
The Goal:
The restaurant runs the week you are not in it. Problems reach you after somebody has already handled them, not during. You read the numbers, you make the decisions that are genuinely yours, and the building stops waiting on you to open a door.
Is this right for you?
This is you
You are the right fit if…
- You are doing at least $1M a year and the restaurant works
- You have tried a course, a consultant, a new POS, maybe all three, and none of it changed anything
- You are still the answer to every question in the building
- You want that to change this year, not eventually
This is not you
Skip this if…
- You have not opened yet, or you are under $1M a year
- You are looking for a quick fix
- You want somebody to hand you a playbook and then disappear
- You want the work done for you rather than installed with you
What You'll Get After Joining Us:
#1: The Systems
Opening shift
The org chart
You get the exact systems I use to run my 735 restaurants. The curriculum, the playbooks, the SOPs. You don't build from scratch. You copy what already works and drop it into your business.
#2: Weekly Strategy Calls
Every week you get on a live call with me and a room of other owners. I personally diagnose your business and give you a step by step roadmap for your next move.
#3: The Network
You get access to a private room of operators doing millions per year, all opening their next locations. You share what's working and grow alongside people already where you want to be.
Common questions
My partner or spouse has to agree to this. How does that work?
Bring them to the call. A partner, a spouse, a parent or an accountant having a say is the most common thing owners tell us, and it is fair, because this is six months of work and real money for the business.
We would rather talk to you together than have you repeat it all later. Partners usually ask about the money and about who covers the floor while this gets built, and those questions are easier to answer live. If they cannot make the time you picked, choose a time they can.
Is now the right time, or should I wait?
Tell us what you are waiting for and we will give you a straight answer on the call. If it is a new location, a lease or a build out, that usually argues for starting sooner, because the next location inherits whatever management you have today.
If you are waiting on your numbers, a new system or a busy season to pass, starting a little later can make sense, and we will say so.
I need time to think. Can I see everything in writing first?
Yes, and nobody is asked to commit off a single conversation. After the call we send a written breakdown of the six months and what you get, a recording of a real group coaching session, the long interview with Alex, and client interviews.
You can read the agreement before you decide, and your partner, accountant or lawyer can read it too.
What does it cost?
The Restaurant Accelerator is $12,000 paid in full, or $2,500 a month for six months, which comes to $15,000. Paying in full saves $3,000.
The strategy call is free. You will know the price before you decide anything.
That is a lot of money right now. Can the business carry it?
Here is one way to size it, as an example only. Take a restaurant doing $1M a year: one point of food or labor cost is $10,000 a year, so $12,000 is a little more than one point of prime cost. Your own numbers will be different, and we cannot promise any result, so run the sum on your business before you decide.
If money is tight, say so on the call. If the business cannot carry it yet, we will tell you, and Management OS at $97 is the place to start.
Can I try this on my own first?
Yes. Management OS is $97 with a 30-day money-back guarantee, and you buy it on the page with no call. It gets a daily management routine running with the team you already have, and it comes with a free one-on-one implementation call to plan your first week.
The Accelerator goes further. It also covers profit, getting more customers and opening more locations, and every week your work gets looked at on a live call.
Do you guarantee results?
No. We provide education and coaching, and we never promise revenue, profit or growth. What happens depends on your market, your team and how much of the work gets done, and every business is different.
What we can commit to is what you get: the systems Alex used to build Sushi Master to 735 locations, a live call every week, and people who look at your actual numbers and documents.
Is my restaurant big enough for this?
The Restaurant Accelerator is for owners doing more than $1M a year. That is usually one or two locations, where the business still stops when the owner does.
Under $1M, start with Management OS at $97. Above $10M there is normally a leadership team in place already, and the F&B Founders Board is the better fit.
Will this work for my kind of restaurant?
We work with restaurant and food and beverage owners: full service, fast casual, QSR, fine dining, cafes, bars, bakeries, catering, ghost kitchens and food trucks. The system is about how the business is managed, so it does not change with the cuisine.
If you are not sure yours fits, ask on the call. We do not work with other industries.
I have tried courses and consultants. How is this different?
You install the system in your own business over six months, one piece at a time, with your own managers. Each week you bring what you built to a live call and it gets reviewed there, so the work keeps moving after the lesson ends.
You also get Wayer, our software for finance, inventory, scheduling and tasks, so the reports and routines have somewhere to live.
What happens on the free call?
It is 30 minutes on Google Meet with someone on Alex's team. They look at where the restaurant is now, where you want it to be and what is in the way, then tell you whether one of our programs fits.
If one does, they explain it and what it costs. Our programs are paid, and it is fine to say no.
What do I actually get?
Weekly strategy calls with Alex, all recorded. Your Personalized Scaling Roadmap, built from where your restaurant is today. Five courses and 39 lessons, in order: Management OS, Maximize Profit, Know Your Numbers, Get More Customers and Open More Locations. Your own client portal.
You also get the Playbook Library of 15 playbooks, workbooks, tools and 27 SOPs, the Wayer software for finance, inventory, scheduling and tasks, and AskWayer, your AI coach between calls.
Will I work with Alex directly?
Yes, on the weekly calls. They are live, Alex runs them with a group of other owners, and you bring your numbers and your documents to be looked at. The recordings stay available if you miss one.
A private one-to-one with Alex is part of the F&B Founders Board.
I am already stretched. How much time does it take each week?
One live call, plus the lessons and the work between calls. Most of that work is done with your managers, inside the business you are already running, and it is meant to take jobs off your plate as each piece goes in.
Should my managers be on the calls?
Yes, once the management system goes in. The org chart, the scoring system, the daily reports and the 7-Step Management System are installed with the people who will run them, so it helps when they hear it first hand.
Does everything run in English?
Yes, the calls and the program run in English, and they are online, so you can join from anywhere. If a partner or manager is more comfortable in another language, tell us before the call and we will tell you honestly what we can do.
What happens after the six months?
You decide whether to keep going with us. If you stop, access to the program and to Wayer ends, and your Wayer data is kept. The systems you built stay yours either way.
Owners who reach $10M a year are the ones we invite to the F&B Founders Board.