The operating system for opening restaurants right
Your space bleeds carrying costs while you guess what it can hold. We certify restaurant-readiness before the lease is signed. Lease faster. Price the TI right. Never eat a $200K surprise.
What we certify
Electrical service 400A
Gas supply BTU
Ventilation Type I
Grease Interceptor
Four systems, one verdict
Four systems the lease never mentions. Four a tenant's contractor will find after the LOI — from the other side of the table.
The math of a dark space
A 200-amp panel. No interceptor. An undersized gas line. Any one zeroes out the deal. None of them appear on the lease.
Restaurants are the most expensive commercial buildout there is — up to 10× general retail.
Hit an MEP surprise — the cost item underwriters miss most often.
The gap a tenant's contractor finds after the LOI — from the other side of the table.
Concept to opening — and the space bleeds carrying costs for every one of them.
“Specialists at every node. Nobody at the interfaces. The interfaces are where projects die — so that's where we stand.”
People invest millions in restaurants blindly — who wouldn't put ten thousand in the market without an advisor. The industry calls it passion. We call it a scandal.
The seat nobody was sitting in
The broker can't price a Type I hood. Neither can the chef. So the truth shows up last — from the tenant's contractor, after the deal is already built on a guess.
Every great room runs on one person holding all of it — the timing, the money, the mood. That's the maître d'. We made it a document, and we stand where the projects die: at the interfaces. Every great room has a Maître.
Maître Restaurant-Ready™ · Assessment & Certification
One document. Three verdicts: ready, ready with upgrades, not viable as-is. Each with the number attached. Shaped like diligence you already trust — a Phase I environmental, not "consulting."
You'd never close without a Phase I. Stop leasing kitchens without this.
Subject property
4120 Corridor Crossing · Selma, TX
| Identified gap | Estimated range |
|---|---|
| Electrical service upgrade — 400A | $38,000 – $55,000 |
| Type I hood & make-up air path | $42,000 – $70,000 |
| Exterior grease interceptor [F1] | $28,000 – $46,000 |
| Recommended TI allowance | $108,000 – $171,000 |
Full engineering appendix behind tab · Prepared for the developer, readable by the lender.
Illustrative rendering. Real content, one plausible property.
The sequence
No discovery phase. No deck. A site visit and a number you can put in a lease.
Address, prior use, square footage. Photos if you have them. Five minutes. No account.
A site visit. An engineering review of the four systems that decide the deal. Then the number.
List with the badge. Price the TI right. Walk into the negotiation holding engineering instead of hope.
Every assessment scores a space. Every opening teaches the next one.
Who we serve
Same engineering. Different question. All three can hand it to a lender.
Assess a space“The six-figure mistakes happen before the lease is signed.”
Lease a vacant restaurant space to a tenant who survives — without over-building infrastructure you can't recoup. The six-figure mistakes happen before the lease is signed. So does Maître.
“You mastered the food. We'll hand you the rest.”
Found the space you love? Get an honest verdict you can read in one sitting — and show to your lender — before you commit your life savings.
“Unit eleven should be cheaper than unit ten. We make sure of it.”
Score your pipeline before any LOI, on an auditable basis instead of a broker's guess. Commit capital to the sites that open fastest and cheapest.
The proof
A founder who runs rooms. A field record behind every number.
A founder who runs rooms, not decks.
And the field evidence behind the score
One document. A verdict you can hand to a lender, with the number attached.
See a sample assessment
An operator discovered post-lease that code required a $40,000+ exterior grease trap nobody had budgeted — and the landlord didn't know either.
An undersized hood or an insufficient gas line quietly erases the savings a second-generation space was supposed to hand you.
Grounded in the 2026 State of the Restaurant Industry (NRA), tenant-improvement cost trackers, and HBR's profit-pool framework. Figures are planning benchmarks that vary by market and scope.
The offer
Assessment, certification, and a listing-ready one-pager. $10K–$25K per property. Priced against the mistake, not the hours.
One business day. San Antonio–Austin corridor, and expanding.
Before the ink dries
Electrical, gas, ventilation, grease — certified, scored, and priced. One document you can hand to a lender.
Open right.
