Restaurant Menu Engineering

Resturant menu engineering turns popular menus into profitable ones.

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From multi-unit chains to independent operations, hotels, golf courses and bars, we have worked with over 1,250 clients since 2001

Few restaurants understand the importance of properly pricing and costing out their menus, and its impact to their bottom line.

We work with you to help make the most of your offerings and capitalize on incremental revenues, often working alongside our menu development consultant team to refine offerings and structure.

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  • Restaurant menu engineering starts with accurate recipe costing, strong restaurant accounting, and pricing discipline. We analyze contribution margins, menu mix, and pricing structure to improve profitability—often driving a 3–4% increase in overall sales performance.

  • A profitable menu doesn’t have to sacrifice appeal. We engineer menus around items that perform well financially and resonate with guests, creating confidence that every choice delivers quality, value, and consistency.

  • Fewer, better-performing items lead to smoother operations. We help restaurants refine menus to reduce complexity, improve kitchen efficiency, and simplify inventory management without limiting guest choice.

Is your menu built for profit?

Our restaurant menu engineering process ensures menu decisions support margins, execution, and operational efficiency—one of the core restaurant consulting services we provide to operators.

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    "Working with The Fifteen Group has allowed us to take our business to the next level in terms of profitability and efficiency. Their menu engineering expertise has been hugely beneficial to the Cafe’s operation by strengthening our offerings and profit model."

    — Gemma Martin

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    "We’ve used The Fifteen Group for two projects - menu costing and a rather custom accounting project, and both times we’ve been impressed with the results. The Fifteen Group gets restaurants, and I have no doubt they can help you streamline your operations to achieve maximal efficiency!"

    — Nathan Ladovsky

  • Logo of Elora Brewing Co featuring stylized landscape and architecture.

    "We needed to take our customer experience to the next level when our doors reopened. The Fifteen Group redesigned our kitchen to maximize output from a tiny kitchen to a large restaurant and built us a menu that was exciting for our customers and achievable for our team.”

    — Jonathan Laurencic