Entry
Menu Consultation
- Full menu profitability audit
- Item engineering and pricing
- Food cost optimization
- 1 revision cycle
- Supplier recommendations
Services
How Obsidian makes money at scale
Two architectures, five tiers each - restaurant consulting and product development. Clients buy standards, systems, and brand.
Architecture 01
Restaurant Consulting Tiers
Quote
Core
Concept Development
- Full restaurant concept brief
- Menu architecture
- Kitchen systems design
- Team training guide
- 2 site visits included
Premium
Full Launch Consulting
- End-to-end launch management
- Hiring strategy and vetting
- Full staff training
- Pre-opening setup
- Soft launch oversight
- 60-day monitoring
Retainer
Ongoing Advisory
- Monthly remote oversight
- Seasonal menu updates
- Team check-ins
- Priority 48-hour response
License
Systems Licensing
- Full operational blueprint
- Academy access for team
- Royalty on gross revenue
- Annual review included
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Architecture 02
Product Manufacturing & Recipe Development
Most culinary consultants stop at the restaurant door. Obsidian goes further - into the food product supply chain, the CPG aisle, and the commercial production facility.
Entry
Recipe Development
- 3 to 10 custom recipes
- Flavor profiling and testing
- Cost-of-goods analysis
- Batch scaling docs
Core
Menu R&D for Brands
- Full menu concept
- Recipe formulation
- Cost optimization
- Nutritional analysis
Premium
Concept to Shelf
- Product concept development
- Commercial recipe formulation
- Co-packer liaison
- Pilot production oversight
- Packaging guidance
- Retail channel strategy
Retainer
R&D Advisory
- Monthly recipe development
- Product innovation pipeline
- Quality control advisory
- Trend monitoring
License
Recipe IP Licensing
- OBSIDIAN recipe IP licensed
- Brand rights (limited)
- Royalty on product revenue
- Annual review included
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The menu consultation is the fastest way to see value.