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Here's the location to purchase service packages, forms, templates and other great tools from O'Dell Restaurant Consulting.
Forms & Templates
Bonus Plan Example
format - .pdf
Take all the confusion out of setting up a bonus plan for your restaurant, food service or retail business. This example bonus plan shows you the most effective method possible for motivating employees, bonusing based on profit.
No other number in your restaurant matters. "Profit" is the end goal to opening a business, and whether you only want one store or you'd like to open a whole chain, bonusing based on profit gives your entire staff one common goal, which builds teamwork between departments and drives your bottom line.
Price: $5.00
Recipe Costing Spreadsheets
format - Excel Spreadsheets
It's incredibly important to have up-to-date recipe costs for every item you sell. If you don't know what an item costs you to sell, you can't know how to properly price the item. If you don't do anything else to control your food costs, at least calculate your recipe costs and keep them up-to-date.
This spreadsheet helps you not only track costs, but also document the procedures to help staff cook the item, which assists in training and creates accountability. 
Use this spreadsheet to find the cost of a plate or the cost of a batch recipe. It will also help you automatically calculate the portion cost or serving size cost from your batch recipes.
This recipe costing spreadsheet can be linked to our Food and Alcholic Beverage Inventory Spreadsheets and our Ideal Food, Alcohol and Tobacco Cost Tracking Spreadsheets to create a control system that automatically updates all your recipe costs and lets you use those up-to-date costs to accurately track your ideal food costs. These tools replace expensive inventory and recipe software, and even give you information and control that expensive software can't. An example recipe and sub-recipe are included in the download.
You can contact Brandon O'Dell with O'Dell Restaurant Consulting to help you set your Recipe Costing Spreadsheets up by calling 1-888-571-9068.
Price: $10.00
Food and Beverage Inventory and Product Cost Spreadsheets
format - Excel Spreadsheets
Calculating your cost of goods sold can be a daunting project. These spreadsheets help you stay organized and on top of your product costs. This download includes a food inventory spreadsheet segregated into separate inventories for all your food purchases, such as meat, seafood, dairy, produce, soft beverages and more. Segregating your food inventory into separate inventories helps you pinpoint a cost problem when you find one. Also included is a separate spreadsheet for alcoholic beverages. Like the food inventory spreadsheet, the alcoholic beverage inventory is segregated into separate inventories for bottled beer, tap beer, liquor of each type, cordials and wine.
All of our inventory spreadsheets have some special features you won't find in other inventory spreadsheets:
Special columns for breaking everything you buy into automatically calculated recipe units and costs. Simply update the inventory value from an invoice, and the spreadsheet will tell you what the recipe unit cost is. Link our Recipe Costing Spreadsheets to these costs to have automatically updated recipe costs every time you update your inventory.
Input par ordering levels for all your inventory items. The spreadsheet will use the information you record from your physical counts to tell you how much of each product you need to order.
Calculate your cost of good sold right in the spreadsheet. These spreadsheets take your inventory counts, and calculate your inventory values in each segregated category, then allow you to input purchase amounts to have your cost of goods sold automatically calculated for the inventory period.
When you use our Food and Beverage Inventory and Actual Cost Spreadsheets together with our Recipe Costing Spreadsheets and our Ideal Food, Alcohol and Tobacco Cost Tracking Spreadsheets, you create a powerful cost control system that can help you save tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars in your operation.
You can contact Brandon O'Dell with O'Dell Restaurant Consulting to help you set your Food and Beverage Inventory Spreadsheets up by calling 1-888-571-9068.
Price: $50.00
Ideal Food, Alcohol and Tobacco Cost Tracking Spreadsheets
format - Excel Spreadsheets
This incredible tool helps you track your sales by item and your ideal costs for food, liquor, beer and tobacco! It is one of the most powerful management tools you can use. If you are only tracking your actual costs by taking inventory, you're only getting half the information you need to control your costs. Only by comparing your actual food and alcoholic beverage costs to ideal costs can you know if you have a problem with theft or waste.
These spreadsheets let you enter your daily sales by item and recipe costs, then calculate how much the food you sold should have cost you to sell. This is your ideal cost. The spreadsheet then allows you to enter your actual cost from your inventory to calculate a variance. This variance lets you know if you have a theft or waste problem. Use our Recipe Costing Spreadsheet in conjunction with this tool and the Food Inventory Workbook to create the ultimate food and alcoholic beverage cost control system.
You can contact Brandon O'Dell with O'Dell Restaurant Consulting to help you set your Ideal Cost Tracking Spreadsheets up by calling 1-888-571-9068. The spreadsheets contain some examples to help you.
Price: $50.00
Employee Record & Attendence Spreadsheet
format - Excel Spreadsheet
Good record keeping is the cornerstone to a well run restaurants. Use this Excel spreadsheet to keep vital information about your employees, such as their emergency contact, and use the included calendar to track excused and unexcused absences, sick days, vacation days and personal days. This is a must have human resource tool for the well run business.
Price: $10.00
Restaurant Manager Appraisal - QSR
format - Microsoft Word document
Proper evaluations and appraisals are a key to keeping employees happy and motivated. This Restaurant Manager Appraisal form helps you identify your employee’s strengths and weaknesses, and creates a plan to capitalize on your employee’s strengths while improving their weaknesses. This very effective format creates a plan with your employees for their improvement. It strengthens your communication, establishes a system of measuring performance, and sets forth an action plan to make your employees better.
Price: $10.00
Dining Room Manager Appraisal
format - Microsoft Word document
Proper evaluations and appraisals are a key to keeping employees happy and motivated. This Dining Room Manager Appraisal form helps you identify your manager’s strengths and weaknesses, and creates a plan to capitalize on your employee’s strengths while improving their weaknesses. This very effective format creates a plan with your employees for their improvement. It strengthens your communication, establishes a system of measuring performance, and sets forth an action plan to make your employees better.
Price: $10.00
Banquet Manager Appraisal
format - Microsoft Word document
Proper evaluations and appraisals are a key to keeping employees happy and motivated. This Banquet Manager Appraisal form helps you identify your manager’s strengths and weaknesses, and creates a plan to capitalize on your employee’s strengths while improving their weaknesses. This very effective format creates a plan with your employees for their improvement. It strengthens your communication, establishes a system of measuring performance, and sets forth an action plan to make your employees better.
Price: $10.00
Dining Room/Banquet Server Appraisal
format - Microsoft Word document
Proper evaluations and appraisals are a key to keeping employees happy and motivated. This Server Appraisal form helps you identify your manager’s strengths and weaknesses, and creates a plan to capitalize on your employee’s strengths while improving their weaknesses. This very effective format creates a plan with your employees for their improvement. It strengthens your communication, establishes a system of measuring performance, and sets forth an action plan to make your employees better.
Price: $10.00
Problem Solving Tutorial using the scientific method
format - Microsoft Word document
Good problem solving skills are not a gift. They are taught and learned. With this outline to effective problem solving, you can use the scientific method to help teach your management staff and key personnel how to effectively deal with any problem that may arise in your business.
Price: $5.00
Steps of Service Checklist
format - Microsoft Word document
This very detailed tool lines out every step for service staff to give your guests incredible service. Just train your staff on all these key steps, and you’ll have service that is legendary!
Price: $5.00
Hands-on Training Activities Checklist
format - Microsoft Word document
This checklist is a training tool for service staff, to focus their training time spent on the floor and following trainers. It instructs the trainee to observe, practice and find-out many important service functions in your restaurant. By giving the trainee some structured control over their own training, this tool helps you have a more effective training program.
Price: $10.00
Customer Count Record Spreadsheet
format - Microsoft Excel
This spreadsheet will help you track customer counts for an entire year. Use it to make customer traffic comparisons by the shift, profit center, day of the week, or sales period.
The spreadsheet automatically averages customer counts for each day of the week and meal period. It also calculates year end averages, and has space to enter sales data to automatically calculate sales per customer. Information is power, and tools like this help put you in control of your business.
Price: $12.00
Credit Card Fee Evaluation Spreadsheet
format - Microsoft Excel
Compare the fees of different credit card processors using this evaluation tool. Simply put in the stated fees charged by a particular processor, and this spreadsheet will help you determine the real cost of processing that credit card. This cost is the percentage of your sales that processing credit cards is actually costing you, including any dues, membership fees, swipe fees, batch fees, and the other extra "hidden" costs credit card processors tack on to your processing.
This tool includes sample information filled into the spreadsheet to demonstrate how it works.
Price: $5.00
On-site Service Packages
Business Analysis & Action Plan
(when you need help finding your problem)
Have Brandon O'Dell with O'Dell Restaurant Consulting make an on-site 5 day visit to your restaurant or food service to analyze your business. A business analysis includes an in-depth study and custom designed action plan for these key areas:
Brandon O'Dell will arrive on a Wednesday and meet with you personally to set an itinerary for the visit. Please have your schedule for this week as open as your business allows. The visit will last from Wednesday through Sunday, culminating with the review of a special action plan designed specifically for your business.
This service is available anywhere. Travelling expenses and accomodations are not included in package prices.
Action Plan Implementation
(when you need help fixing your problem)
Have Brandon O'Dell with O'Dell Restaurant Consulting make an on-site 5 day visit to your restaurant or food service to help you implement a plan for improving your business. This can be a followup to our Business Analysis, or we can guide you in making changes to improve a problem you've diagnosed yourself.
Brandon O'Dell will arrive on a Monday and meet with you personally to set an itinerary for the visit. Please have your schedule for this week as open as your business allows. The visit will last from Monday through Friday (or another 5 consecutive days), culminating with the review of the work completed and an outline to guide you in continuing the plan of action for your business.
This service is available anywhere. Travelling expenses and accomodations are not included in package prices.
Marketing Analysis & Plan Implementation
(when you don't have enough customers)
Have Brandon O'Dell with O'Dell Restaurant Consulting make an on-site 5 day visit to your restaurant or food service to analyze your marketing efforts, create a marketing action plan, and begin implementing a plan to get you more customers. This is a more specific service meant to focus on one key area in your business. A marketing analysis is also available via email and telephone, but on on-site visit helps get the most for your money.
Brandon O'Dell will arrive on a Monday and meet with you personally to set an itinerary for the visit. Please have your schedule for this week as open as your business allows. The visit will last from Monday through Friday (or another 5 consecutive days), culminating with the review of the work completed and an outline to guide you in continuing the plan of action for your business.
Food Cost Analysis & Plan Implementation
(when it's costing you too much to feed customers)
Have Brandon O'Dell with O'Dell Restaurant Consulting make an on-site 5 day visit to your restaurant or food service to analyze your food costs, create a action plan for improving them, and begin implementing the plan. This is a more specific service meant to focus on one key area in your business. A Food Cost Analysis includes a comprehensive study of every aspect of costs including:
Brandon O'Dell will arrive on a Monday and meet with you personally to set an itinerary for the visit. Please have your schedule for this week as open as your business allows. The visit will last from Monday through Friday (or another 5 consecutive days), culminating with the review of the work completed and an outline to guide you in continuing the plan of action for your business.
Food Production Analysis & Plan Implementation
(when your food takes too long to get out)
Have Brandon O'Dell with O'Dell Restaurant Consulting make an on-site 5 day visit to your restaurant or food service to analyze your food production speed, create a action plan for getting food out of your kitchen faster, and begin implementing the plan. This is a more specific service meant to focus on one key area in your business. A Food Production Analysis concentrates on decreasing ticket times and includes a comprehensive study of every aspect of production including:
Brandon O'Dell will arrive on a Wednesday and meet with you personally to set an itinerary for the visit. Please have your schedule for this week as open as your business allows. The visit will last from Wednesday through Sunday, culminating with the review of the work completed and an outline to guide you in continuing the plan of action for your business.
Service Analysis & Plan Implementation
(when you need to improve your service)
Have Brandon O'Dell with O'Dell Restaurant Consulting make an on-site 5 day visit to your restaurant or food service to analyze your service, create a action plan for improving it, and begin implementing the plan. This is a more specific service meant to focus on one key area in your business. A Service Analysis concentrates on increasing the quality AND the speed of your service. A major focus of this visit is the creation of a comprehensive training manual.
Brandon O'Dell will arrive on a Wednesday and meet with you personally to set an itinerary for the visit. Please have your schedule for this week as open as your business allows. The visit will last from Wednesday through Sunday, culminating with the review of the work completed and an outline to guide you in continuing the plan of action for your business.
Loss Liability Analysis & Plan Implementation
(to limit the chances of getting sued and paying insurance settlements)
Have Brandon O'Dell with O'Dell Restaurant Consulting make an on-site 5 day visit to your restaurant or food service to analyze your loss liability, create a action plan for improving it, and begin implementing the plan. This is a more specific service meant to focus on one key area in your business. A Loss Liability Analysis concentrates on reducing the odds of an on-the-job accident in addition to laying out contingency plans for emergencies and natural disasters. A major focus of this visit is the creation of a Safety Manual.
Brandon O'Dell will arrive on a Monday and meet with you personally to set an itinerary for the visit. Please have your schedule for this week as open as your business allows. The visit will last from Monday through Friday (or another 5 consecutive days), culminating with the review of the work completed and an outline to guide you in continuing the plan of action for your business.
Site Selection Assistance
(for help choosing the right location)
Have Brandon O'Dell with O'Dell Restaurant Consulting make an on-site 5 day visit to help you analyze potential restaurant sites. This includes an analysis of your concept to identify your target market, a local market report to find your target market, and a custom designed site selection tool to make sure you start your business off right.
Picking a location is an incredibly important first move to opening a successful restaurant. Don't set yourself up for failure before you even open by choosing the wrong spot.
Email & Telephone Service Packages
Marketing Mentoring
Sometimes you just need an experienced ear to bounce ideas off of. Our Marketing Mentoring package lets you take advantage of Brandon O'Dell's personal knowledge and relationships with dozens of successful restaurateurs, consultants, sales professionals and countless other associates. We have the support structure, relationships and info that you're too busy running your business to get, so take advantage of it.
Brandon O'Dell will schedule you a reoccuring weekly 30 minute telephone consultation for 14 weeks to discuss issues in your business. This time can be used to ask questions, email tool templates, review decisions or discuss anything you desire. Conversations can be extended if you need more time during any session.
Package includes (14) 30 minute sessions
Food Cost Mentoring
Many problems can be solved without on-site visits. Over the phone and via email, we can help you identify and resolve food cost issues in your business. If you have no systems in place to monitor and manage food costs, we can help you set them up.
Brandon O'Dell will schedule you a reoccuring weekly 30 minute telephone consultation for 14 weeks to discuss issues in your business. This time can be used to ask questions, email tool templates, review decisions or discuss anything you desire. Conversations can be extended if you need more time during any session.
Package includes (14) 30 minute sessions
Food Production Mentoring
There are many things that can slow down your kitchen. Long ticket times means you're not making as much money as you should during your peak hours. We'll help you identify the issues that are slowing down your kitchen and fix them.
Brandon O'Dell will schedule you a reoccuring weekly 30 minute telephone consultation for 14 weeks to discuss issues in your business. This time can be used to ask questions, email tool templates, review decisions or discuss anything you desire. Conversations can be extended if you need more time during any session.
Package includes (14) 30 minute sessions
Service Mentoring
By taking on some of the work yourself, we can guide you to having fantastic service over the phone and by email for a very affordable price. We'll help you identify and resolve service issues, teach you how to motivate your staff, and show you how to create a comprehensive training manual.
Brandon O'Dell will schedule you a reoccuring weekly 30 minute telephone consultation for 14 weeks to discuss issues in your business. This time can be used to ask questions, email tool templates, review decisions or discuss anything you desire. Conversations can be extended if you need more time during any session.
Package includes (14) 30 minute sessions
