FoodiRestaurant Consulting in Houston, TX
Foodi is a Houston restaurant consulting practice built by an operator, not an accountant. We find the profit hiding in your food cost, labor, purchasing, and vendor contracts — and help your managers keep it.
A Houston Operator, Working With Houston Restaurants
Foodi is based here. Marco Coleman built Foodi from what worked running restaurant operations — from the line to Director of Operations, with 18+ years on the floor. For Houston restaurants, that means in-person kickoffs, on-site manager training, and someone who knows what a Houston summer does to your electric bill and your walk-in.
Houston is one of the most competitive and diverse restaurant markets in the country — BBQ, Tex-Mex, Viet-Cajun, fine dining, and everything in between. Competition keeps menu prices in check, so margin has to come from operations: tighter food cost, labor that tracks sales, and vendors held to their pricing.
What Foodi Does for Houston Restaurants
Weekly Profit Tracking
Every Monday you get the Foodi Tracker: sales, food, labor, prime cost, and projected profit against target, with problems flagged in dollars, not just percentages.
Learn more →Food & Beverage Cost
Recipe costing, waste, spoilage, over-production, and pour cost. We find where product leaves the building without turning into sales.
Learn more →Labor
Scheduling against forecast, overtime drift, and labor that doesn't match sales. Forecasts are built from your prior-year sales.
Learn more →Vendors, Contracts & Subscriptions
Vendor pricing, invoice creep, utility and service contracts, and the software subscriptions quietly eating your margin.
Learn more →Menu & Pricing
Item-level margins and price moves backed by your actual costs, not guesses.
Learn more →Manager Training
We train your restaurant-level managers to run the systems day to day. When a manager leaves, we train the next one, so your numbers don't reset.
Learn more →How We Work With Houston Restaurants
- In-person kickoff and on-site manager training anywhere in the Houston area
- Craftable setup on site if you're starting fresh
- Weekly Foodi Tracker every Monday, with a direct line to Marco
Cost Pressures We Watch in Houston
Electricity contracts
Most of the Houston area is in Texas's deregulated electricity market, so your business chooses its electric provider and plan. Contracts that roll onto worse rates are easy to miss — and expensive in a Houston summer.
Labor competition
Thousands of restaurants compete for the same cooks and servers. We make sure labor tracks sales week to week so wage increases don't quietly erase your margin.
Protein and produce swings
Brisket, Gulf seafood, and produce prices move fast. We track ingredient trends — not just this week's invoice — so you can adjust portions or price before the margin is gone.
The Oversight of a Director of Operations — Without the Overhead
$6,500–$7,500+ (salary, payroll tax, benefits)
From $2,000/month
Job search, interviews, and a gap in coverage
None
60–90 days to get up to speed
Starts with a $499 assessment of your current numbers
Their knowledge walks out the door
We train your next manager — the system stays
Often another hire
$1,500/month per additional location (same concept)
On a $2M restaurant, a 1-point improvement in prime cost is $20,000 a year.
Illustrative example. Not a guaranteed result.
Month to month. Cancel anytime.
See full pricingRestaurant Consulting in Houston: Common Questions
Yes. Foodi is based in Houston. Houston-area clients get an in-person kickoff, plus on-site manager training and Craftable setup when needed. Your weekly Foodi Tracker arrives every Monday.
Independent restaurants, bars, and small restaurant groups — full service, fast casual, BBQ, and bar programs — whether you have one location or several.
Foodi starts with a $499 Business Health Assessment. The ongoing program is $2,000/month for your first location and $1,500/month for each additional location in the same concept — compared with $6,500–$7,500+ a month for a full-time Director of Operations. Foodi is month to month, and you can cancel anytime.