Restaurant · Café · Bakery consulting

Your menu is quietly losing money. We find it — and fix it.

83 Hospitality turns guesswork into profit for restaurants, cafés and bakeries — using our own software, real floor experience, and systems we've literally written the book on.

20+ years in F&B Our own profit software We wrote the book Bakery & confectionery specialists
margin +13% 3 dishes losing money

The Menu — under review

Teardown
Chicken Biryani
₹ 280
★ STAR · push it
Veg Club Sandwich
₹ 180
⚠ DOG · −₹34/plate
Red Velvet Pastry
₹ 120
? PUZZLE · reprice
Menu margin 58% → 71%
The problem

Most kitchens run on gut feel. Gut feel leaks money.

Great food and busy tables can still hide a thin, shrinking margin. Here's where it usually goes.

01

Prices set by guesswork

Dishes priced off what the place down the road charges — not what they actually cost to make. Some sell like crazy and lose money on every plate.

02

SOPs living in one person's head

When the head chef or manager is off, quality and cost wobble. Nothing's written down, so nothing's repeatable.

03

No idea which dish actually pays

Owners can name their bestsellers. Almost none can name their most profitable dish — and that's the one worth promoting.

What we do

Four ways we put money back on your bottom line.

Fixed-scope engagements with clear outcomes — not open-ended "consulting."

/ 01

Menu Engineering

We cost every dish, sort your Stars from your Dogs, then reprice and redesign the menu so it quietly sells your most profitable food for you.

/ 02

SOPs & Systems

Recipes, prep, service, procurement and hygiene — out of people's heads and into systems that survive staff turnover and hold quality steady.

Our specialty
/ 03

Bakery & Confectionery

Our home turf. Recipe costing, shelf-life, display, wastage and pricing for bakeries, patisseries and dessert brands — where tiny margins decide everything.

/ 04

Profit Partner · retainer

Ongoing margin monitoring through our software, monthly reviews, and a partner who watches your numbers with you month after month.

Why 83 Hospitality

Anyone can call themselves a consultant. Few can back it like this.

We built our own software

Your numbers come from FixMenu, our own restaurant-profit platform — live dashboards and real analysis, not a spreadsheet and an opinion.

We wrote the book — literally

We're the author of The Restaurant Marketing Brain. Our playbook is in print, tested and refined — not improvised on the spot.

We've run the floor

20+ years in F&B. We've done procurement at 6am and covered a shift at 11pm — we advise as operators, not theorists.

How it works

No lock-in. No jargon. Three steps.

You'll know exactly what you're getting — and what it's worth — before you spend a rupee.

STEP 1

WhatsApp us your menu

A photo of your menu card is enough. Takes you two minutes — no forms, no meetings, no commitment.

STEP 2

Get your free teardown

Within 48 hours: three dishes hurting your margin, three you should push harder, on one plain-English page.

STEP 3

Decide with real numbers

Want the leaks fixed? We quote a fixed-scope engagement upfront. Not convinced? Keep the teardown — it's yours.

83 Hospitality

The Restaurant Marketing Brain

Available on Amazon
On the shelf

We wrote the book on restaurant marketing.

How restaurants actually win customers and keep them coming back — marketing built for real F&B operators, not textbook theory. The same thinking we bring to every client, in print.

Find it on Amazon
Free · No obligation

See where your menu is leaking — free.

Send us your menu. We'll show you three dishes hurting your margin and three you should be pushing harder. One page, plain English, no cost.

WhatsApp us your menu Or email it instead
Teardown delivered within 48 hours · Restaurants, cafés & bakeries welcome
Before you ask

The questions every owner asks us first.

What is this going to cost me?

The Menu Teardown is genuinely free — no card, no catch. If you want us to fix what we find, every engagement is quoted as a fixed scope with a fixed price before we start. You'll never get an open-ended bill.

Will you rip up my menu or tell me to fire my chef?

No. We work with the kitchen, team and dishes you already have. Most profit gains come from small, boring changes — repricing, portioning, placement — done precisely. Your identity stays yours.

How fast will I see results?

The teardown lands in 48 hours. A Menu Engineering engagement typically takes 2–4 weeks, and repricing changes show up in the very next month's numbers. SOPs and bakery work run on similar timelines, scoped upfront.

I run a small café / home bakery — is this for me?

Especially for you. Independents feel every rupee of leaked margin more than chains do — and bakery & confectionery is our specialty, not an afterthought. If you sell food, your menu has Stars and Dogs worth knowing about.

Who we are

An operator's consultancy, born in Chennai's kitchens.

83 Hospitality grew out of years spent inside restaurants, cafés and bakeries — costing recipes, fixing service, and learning the hard way what actually moves profit.

Today we pair that hands-on experience with our own software and published playbook, so the advice you get is tested, measurable, and built to stick after we leave.

— Gautam V Nichani & Kaleel Rahman, Co-Founders

Meet the founders
20+years operating in food & beverage
1published book — The Restaurant Marketing Brain
1profit platform we built ourselves — FixMenu
margin we'd rather you kept