Your Restaurant Does Not Need to Be Failing to Need Reinvention.
Your restaurant may be operating, generating revenue, and serving loyal guests.
But thin margins, founder dependence, inconsistent experiences, outdated systems, or an aging brand can prevent it from becoming the business it should be today.
KRG Restaurants helps established operators escape average, protect what they have built, and confidently build profits of 15-20% or more.
Reinvention Begins With Understanding the Entire Restaurant.
Diagnose. Reinvent. Advance.
A restaurant can remain busy while profitability declines. It can remain popular while losing relevance. It can grow while becoming more dependent on the founder.
These problems are rarely solved through one new menu, marketing campaign, manager, technology platform, or renovation.
They require an objective assessment and one connected strategy.
Complete Your Scorecard
Discover where your restaurant is exposed, underperforming, or ready to advance through a focused scorecard delivering immediate clarity and direction.
KRG Performance Intensive
Transform assessment insights into a focused twelve-month strategy, then strengthen execution, accountability, profitability, leadership, and founder independence through coaching.
Industry Insights
Access insights on restaurant industry shifts, consumer behavior, operating pressures, and emerging opportunities to enhance your decision making.
About KRG Restaurants
Our Team
KRG Restaurants combines the 15-plus-year experience and methodology of principal consultant Doug Radkey and senior consultant David Klemt with KRG’s brand recognition and connected specialist network to strengthen restaurant businesses and to reinvent measurable, sustainable outcomes with confidence.
Our Mindset
We believe that average performance is not failure. But left unchallenged, it can become the greatest threat to everything an operator has built. We believe meaningful reinvention begins before crisis, while owners still have the time, resources, and choices to shape their future.
Our Approach
We assess the complete business, identify what is restricting performance, build a sequenced 12-month strategy, and coach leadership through implementation. We’re for established operators who know their restaurant is capable of more and are ready to make the decisions required to reach it.
The Transformation
Targeted performance metrics that our clients reach.
6 – 12% Uplift in EBITDA Percentage Points
We help strengthen pricing, revenue mix, labor productivity, cost control, and operating discipline to convert existing sales into significantly stronger restaurant profitability.
8% to 15% Increase in Average Guest Spend
We help improve menu architecture, value perception, service behaviors, and experience design to increase per-guest revenue without depending entirely on additional traffic.
Reduction of 10-20 Hours in Founder-Dependent Time
We help develop capable leaders, clear decision rights, documented systems, and meaningful accountability so the restaurant performs without requiring the founders involvement.
Min. 4x to 6x Return on Consulting Investment
The monthly KRG Restaurants Intensive is designed to generate annualized profit improvement, protected costs, or business value for every dollar invested.
Key Benefits
KRG Restaurants transforms operational uncertainty into a clear path forward. Through assessment, strategy, and coaching, we help you strengthen profitability, modernize the guest experience, develop accountable leaders, reduce founder dependence, and build a restaurant positioned for sustainable performance and growth.
- We help you uncover performance gaps before they worsen.
- We help protect margins through smarter operating decisions.
- We help modernize experiences without losing brand identity.
- We help you build leaders who own measurable outcomes.
- We help you create owner freedom and scalable operations.
Frequently Asked Questions
KRG Restaurants is a division of KRG Collective. We work with established full-service restaurants, fast-casual concepts, QSRs, cafés, coffee shops, and emerging restaurant groups. Our clients are not necessarily failing. They are operators ready to escape average, strengthen profitability, modernize their experience, reduce founder dependence, or prepare for repositioning, renovations, and responsible growth.
The KRG Performance Intensive begins with a complete business assessment, followed by a focused 12-month strategy and 1-on-1 coaching. Delivered through a monthly subscription, the system provides structured priorities, performance reviews, leadership accountability, and strategic support. It helps ownership and management turn recommendations into measurable, sustainable improvements throughout the restaurant.
KRG Restaurants supports operators across Canada, the United States, Mexico, and select international markets. Most assessment, strategy, and coaching work can be delivered remotely through virtual sessions, data reviews, and leadership meetings. On-site assessments, intensives, team sessions, and operational reviews are also available when the restaurant’s needs require direct observation and collaboration.