Restaurant Business Specialist with Comprehensive Understanding of Operations and Business Success from Experiential and Academic Perspectives. "Management From Measurement"

Email slipinski72@gmail.com to schedule a no-fee conversation to discuss your business challenges.

Key Consulting Services

• Design "Actionable" Financial Statements for Restaurants

• Revenue Management for Restaurants

• Restaurant Turnaround Strategy

• Tailored Management Training Seminars

• Expert Witness Services, Operational Practices and Liability Issues

Expertise

Nearly three decades of restaurant ownership and operations tempered by a decade of teaching experience at The School of Hotel Administration at Cornell prepares me to view your operation from numerous areas of strength and experience. Beginning with the business plan, I guide you carefully through operational landmines to profitable ground. Ideas not often understood by operators and old school consultants, on which I provide grounded expertise, include revenue management for restaurants; concept development; defining a value equation; margin analysis; pricing theory and practice; and menu design and engineering to make your menu a sales tool to sell high margined items and not a colorful listing of what we sell. Dogs. Puzzles. RevPash. Irrational Exuberance.                    If you don't know that to which I refer, please call.

Background

Undergraduate degree from The School of Hotel Administration at Cornell University. Owned and operated both Upscale Casual (before the term was coined) and limited-service restaurants. Taught on the college level courses in Applications of Food Chemistry in a Commercial Kitchen; Introduction to Food and Beverage Operations; Senior Level Restaurant Management; Marketing and Advertising; Basic Accounting Principles.

Provided Consulting and Management Services in multiple venues including foundation-up hotel and restaurant openings; fast food and amusement park marketing and cost controls; and the "rebooting" of facilities that have lost their way.

I own and direct Stephen Lipinski Associates, LLC, a commercial real estate and consulting practice with specific expertise in hospitality properties.

Professional & Other

- Chairman of the Board of Directors, Cerebral Palsy Associations of NY State
- Emeritus Director, Past President, The Franziska Racker Centers, Ithaca, NY
- Board of Directors, Challenge Workforce Solutions, Ithaca, NY
- Board of Directors, American Red Cross, Ithaca, NY
- Visiting Lecturer, School of Hotel Administration, Cornell University
- Retired Faculty, School of Hotel Administration, Cornell University
- Lecturer, Tompkins Cortland Community College
- Cornell Hotel Society, Member and Past Officer                                                                     - Chairman of the Board of Directors, Neighborhood Depot Development