Why Get a Restaurant Expert to Validate Your Plan

Why Get a Restaurant Expert to Validate Your Plan

by Aaron Allen
Restaurant Consultant, Speaker & Industry Analyst
Aaron Allen & Associates

The value of a restaurant expert, a professional second opinion, cannot be overstated. And no matter what, you will get a second opinion.

Would you rather get an opinion from an expert on how to ensure a key initiative is successful or wait for the critics to laugh if it fails (and when it’s too late to reverse course)?

Often, what’s needed is a fresh lens to ensure the strategies are resilient and forward-looking:

  • What are we missing?
  • Is the competition already thinking this way?
  • Is this the right way to stay ahead?
  • Are there potential drawbacks from this approach down the road that we haven’t anticipated?
  • Will consumers like it just as much as the management team does?

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Aaron Allen & Associates works alongside senior executives of the world’s leading foodservice and hospitality companies to help them solve their most complex challenges and achieve their most ambitious aims, specializing in brand strategy, turnarounds, commercial due diligence and value enhancement for leading hospitality companies and private equity firms.

Our clients span six continents and 100+ countries, collectively posting more than $300b in revenue. Across 2,000+ engagements, we’ve worked in nearly every geography, category, cuisine, segment, operating model, ownership type, and phase of the business life cycle.