Flagship briefing
Kitchen demand briefing
A ten-day commission that turns till extracts, delivery notes, and local diaries into a week-ahead covers and dish-mix briefing hung beside the pass.
Who it is for
Independent restaurants, hotel kitchens, and small pub groups that already keep a till extract and a paper diary but still over-prep on wet Tuesdays and run out of the roast on bank-holiday Sundays.
What you receive
The head chef receives a printed kitchen calendar and a passworded page showing expected covers by sitting, likely 86-risk dishes, and the prep weights that follow from those numbers.
Scope
One trading site, or a pair of sites that share a kitchen. Groups with more than two sites are quoted separately after a short scoping call.
Included
- Intake of 13 weeks of till lines, delivery notes, weather, and the local events the GM already tracks
- Seven-day and 28-day covers forecast by sitting, not by abstract day-part labels
- Dish-mix notes for the current menu, including likely 86-risks and high-waste garnish lines
- Beverage pull by the lines that actually move with food, not a generic wet-sales chart
- A wall calendar for the kitchen office and a simple passworded page for the GM
- A 90-minute walkthrough with the head chef and GM, on site where travel allows
Not included
- Replacing the till, stock system, or rota software
- Live connection into the point of sale as an ongoing product
- Staff scheduling, payroll, or supplier contract negotiation
How the work runs
Briefings are written by System Pathpoint from the Cross office, with site visits across the South West and remote walkthroughs for the rest of the United Kingdom.
- You send extracts and the current menu; we confirm what is missing within two working days.
- We sit with the diary, weather, and local fixtures (market day, match day, carnival) and draft the first week.
- You receive the wall calendar and the passworded page, then we walk the pass and the cellar together.
- A single revision is included if a menu change lands during the briefing window.
Time: Ten working days from a complete extract pack. The walkthrough is booked in the second week.
Place: Intake is remote. Walkthroughs are in the kitchen office when the site is within a day's travel of Cross, Somerset; otherwise by video with the same documents on the table.
Please prepare: Export till lines as CSV, photograph the current menu and specials board, list known events, and name one person who can answer 86-notes from the previous month.
Limits: We do not forecast from fewer than six complete trading weeks. New openings wait until a short run of actual covers exists.
Fees: From £2,400 for a single-site briefing. Additional sites, banquet diaries, and cellar-only packs are quoted after intake.
Send a note from the contact page with the site type and the week you want the first calendar on the wall.