Evaluation · 02
Restaurant & Wine Program Audit
The dinner and the wine service, judged the way a sommelier at the next table would judge them.
A full dinner evaluated in sequence, plus a sommelier’s read of the wine program: the list, the pricing, the cellar logic, the ritual at the table, and the pairing nobody offered.
- For
- Fine dining, wine-forward rooms, and hotel beverage programs.
- Starting at
- Restaurants from $3,500. Hotel beverage programs from $15,000.
What we evaluate
- Reservation, host stand, and bar
- Table service, pacing, and food execution
- Wine list quality, pricing, and vintage accuracy
- Glassware, temperature, decanting, and ritual
- Sommelier interaction and pairing guidance
- By-the-glass strategy and missed revenue
What you receive
- Full service and food evaluation
- Wine & beverage program diagnostic
- Quantified revenue-leakage estimate
- Beverage staff coaching notes
- Thirty-day action plan
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The Independence Protocol: when we work for an owner, we never also take fees from the operator we are reviewing. Advisory and training are offered only where they cannot compromise an evaluation we have done or will do. It costs us work. It is the only way the findings are worth anything.
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