The Restaurant Consultant

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I spent 36 years in restaurants, from dishwasher to owner, and ran Mouton's Bistro & Bar for 14 years before selling it in March 2026. The Restaurant Consultant is the tool I wanted during those years: the systems a consultant would charge for, in an app I could open during service. It is built for independent restaurant owners and working GMs, not chains with a corporate support team. It covers 12 operational domains: leadership, service, training, staffing, HR and documentation, kitchen, costs, reviews, SOPs, crisis, facilities and social media. Day to day, owners use it to build the weekly schedule and let staff see their shifts in an employee portal, track prime cost weekly against a target, cost recipes, run menu engineering on item margins, and keep temperature and HACCP logs. It generates six role-specific training manuals (server, kitchen, bartender, host, busser, manager) for your restaurant in about 30 seconds, drafts HR documentation and SOPs, and drafts replies to guest reviews. Sales and vendor reports exported from your POS or distributor can be imported as CSV or PDF. There is also an operations consultant you can ask anything, loaded with your restaurant's name, concept and targets, so the answer uses your numbers. Three domains are free forever with no credit card. Basic and Pro start with a 7-day free trial. It runs in a browser and as native iPhone, iPad and Android apps.

PourWatch

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I built PourWatch for the contractor who is the boss, the tech, the bookkeeper and the dispatcher in one truck. Every morning it pulls newly issued building permits from public city and county records inside your driving radius, scores them against your trade, and puts the hot ones at the top. You see the address, what is being built, how big the job is and how many days ago the permit was issued. One tap to call, one to navigate, and you mark each lead called, saved or not a fit. Pick your trade and the list re-ranks. Off-trade permits stay hidden, and the app tells you how many it filtered out. Coverage runs to more than 300 cities and counties, and the full list is public at pourwatch.com/coverage. When a city stops publishing, PourWatch says so instead of showing you a short list. Once you win the job, the rest of the work lives in the same place: today's route in service order, visit logs with photos and voice notes, customer history and gate codes, estimates with sales tax, invoices from draft to paid, and route profit that shows which accounts pay for the drive. Expenses map to Schedule C lines, with bank statement import, linked bank accounts, one-tap mileage and a year-end export. $49 a month with a 30-day free trial. The trial is long on purpose: a permit takes weeks to turn into a booked job.