Foodlab Chicago Presents: Menu Engineering & Financial Forecasting Workshop

Do you have a plan to increase your profitability this year? If not, come to this workshop and learn how to boost your restaurant's profitability with simple techniques. This free workshop will give restaurateurs the tools they need to thrive-even after a recession or in preparation for one. At the end of this 1 day workshop, you will have the following profitability tools: Use menu engineering and menu design to increase profitability Develop a regular case, a regular-plus and a regular-minus business scenario models for your restaurant Understand key components of restaurant's profitability Restaurateurs bring your accountants/bookkeepers to learn these restaurant-centric methods to increase profitability. Attendees should have their laptops and know basic excel or google spreadsheets. Southside owners/operators who have been operating for 18+ months are welcome. (breakfast and lunch provided.) The workshop will be facilitated by FoodLab Chicago's own Tamieka Hardy and team. With guest speaker Sean Willard the Menu Engineer Consultant. Drawing from two decades of industry experience, Sean Willard combines science, art, data, and industry expertise to Engineer Menus that enables restaurateurs to develop and design more effective menus that drive profitability and enhance the guest experience. For the last 3 years FoodLab Chicago has assisted 40 black-owned south side Chicago restaurateurs. Collectively they have acquired $4 million in grants and loans. Notable FoodLab Chicago alumni include Soulveg city, Surf's Up South Shore, Imani's Originals, Brown Sugar Bakery, The Foodies Spot, etc. for more information visit foodlabchicago.com Sponsored by: Wells Fargo Chicago Community Trust The Fund for Equitable Business Growth Greater Chatham Initiative Any questions please contact: [hidden] More Info below.