Restaurant consulting · Irving, TX
Irving's best days are weekdays. We help you make the weekend work too.
The Irving market
Offices, hotels and travelers
Las Colinas is home to many corporate headquarters and regional offices, along with the Urban Center around Lake Carolyn and the Mandalay Canal. The Irving Convention Center and the Toyota Music Factory bring conventions, concerts and events. A large number of hotels serve business travelers coming through DFW Airport.
That means strong weekday lunch, after-work and group dining, plenty of catering and corporate orders, and guests on expense accounts who care about speed and reliability. It also means Friday afternoon through Sunday can drop off unless there is an event or you have a strong neighborhood following.
Neighborhood Irving
Beyond Las Colinas, Irving has large, diverse residential neighborhoods and many family-owned restaurants serving cuisines from around the world. Those restaurants depend on regulars and weekend family traffic, the opposite pattern from the office core.
DART's Orange Line runs through Irving to the airport, and Irving sits between Dallas and Fort Worth. Owners who run more than one location often end up with one in each pattern.
What we see in Irving
Where Irving operators lose margin.
Weekday-heavy demand
Labor and inventory sized for Tuesday can sink a Saturday. Schedules and ordering have to follow the real week.
Catering without a system
Office and hotel group orders can be strong margin, but only if they're priced for the labor and packaging and come in through a system the kitchen can trust.
Competing for workers with the airport and hotels
Airport, hotel and corporate food service jobs pull from the same labor pool. Retention takes steady schedules and good management.
How we help
How we work with Irving restaurants.
Build catering and ordering into Toast
We set up online and catering ordering, menus and reporting in Toast so group orders flow to the kitchen correctly and you can see what they really earn.
Toast POS Optimization · Project pricing — quoted after a free consultMatch cost to your real week
We set labor and prep by day and daypart, so weekday rushes are covered and the weekend doesn't carry weekday staffing.
Prime Cost Control · Project pricing — quoted after a free consultRun two or more locations as one system
For operators with an office-district location and a neighborhood one, our multi-unit retainer ($7,500/mo, for 2+ locations) brings shared standards, reporting and purchasing.
Multi-Unit Fractional COO · $7,500/monthWe do a lot of corporate catering. Is that something you work on?
Yes. We look at how catering orders come in, how they're priced and prepped, and whether they actually make money after labor and packaging.
Do you come out to Irving?
Yes. Irving is in the middle of our DFW service area, and on-site visits within DFW are included in our retainers.
Running a restaurant in Irving?
Thirty minutes, no pitch deck. Tell us about your restaurant and we'll tell you honestly whether we can help and which offer fits.
We respond within one business day. Serving Dallas–Fort Worth.