Restaurant Consulting

Our team has worked in and for restaurants of all sizes and styles - everything from fast food to fine dining.  We've opened restaurants in nearly every major metropolis in the U.S. and many, many smaller ones!  When we commit to working on your business, we bring a proven track record, years of broad-based restaurant experience, and a love of food and dining. 

Group Dining Programs

Our founder established the first nationally recognized group/private dining program at Morton's of Chicago nearly 20 years ago.

Since then, we have delivered comparable programs to many top fine and polished-casual restaurants across the country including Bonefish Grill, Fleming's Prime Steakhouse & Wine Bar, McCormick & Schmick'sRoy's Restaurant. We have also developed on and off-premise dining and catering programs for a host of brands from fast food to fine dining.

Our National Account programs are  partnerships between The Hinson Group and select restaurant brands.  We maintain relationships with many corporate, pharmaceutical and association clients.  These clients turn to us when they require restaurant event bookings and we, in return, coordinate all of the details of their events.  We coordinate/ negotiate the menus, confirm all the details and provide a completed banquet event order to the client and host restaurant. As an extension of our corporate client's staff, we provide a valuable service.  For our restaurant partners we're able to deliver consistent, reliable revenue.

Services

We provide a full complement of restaurant consulting services including :

  • Menu design
  • Recipe standardization and writing
  • Product development/refinement
  • Trend forecasting
  • Product sourcing
  • Pre-opening public relations support - press material development, media delivery, story development
  • Event development and management
  • Brand and identity development
  • All creative - logo, website, collateral
  • Pre-opening marketing and media support
  • Social media management

Group & Private Dining White Paper: Getting Started

Group & Private Dining White Paper: Booking Business Module