Elevate Your Front-of-House Experience

Better Service. Stronger Sales. Memorable Hospitality. Exceptional Leadership.

Your Guests Aren't Just Buying Food.

They're buying an experience. Every interaction matters: the welcome at the door, the confidence of the server, the quality of the recommendation, the timing of the meal, the manager's presence on the floor, the way a problem is handled, and the final goodbye. Each moment shapes how a guest feels about your restaurant.

Exceptional restaurants don't simply train employees to complete tasks. They develop people who know how to create experiences.

Three Ways to Elevate Your Front of House

1-Day Service, Sales & Hospitality Intensive

Develop the Server: A highly interactive one-day program focused on exceptional service, menu communication, guest engagement, and personalized hospitality. Establish consistent standards while encouraging each server's unique strengths. Investment: $2,995

3-Day Front-of-House Performance Intensive

Develop the Operation: This three-day engagement examines your people, leadership, standards, and guest experience. Diagnose, develop, and implement lasting improvements with a focused FOH Performance Action Plan. Investment: $8,500

5-Day Guest Experience & Profitability Transformation

Develop People, Leadership & Systems: A deep-dive five-day transformation combining operational assessment, leadership growth, team training, optimized performance, and sustainability to build lasting capability. Investment: $14,500

Not Sure Which Program Is Right for You?

You don't need to decide before we talk. Every restaurant is different. Let's spend 20 minutes discussing your operation, strengths, opportunities, and goals. If one of my programs is right, I’ll let you know—if not, I’ll tell you that too.

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Transform Your Service Philosophy

Service & Hospitality Are Different

Service is what you do; hospitality is how the guest feels. True hospitality comes from awareness, empathy, and personalization—not just fulfilling tasks.

Selling Shouldn't Feel Like Selling

Servers become guides for the guest experience. Confident menu knowledge and thoughtful recommendations make selling a natural service extension.

Standardize & Personalize

Set clear service standards while celebrating each staff member’s strengths. The standard belongs to the restaurant, personality to the server.

Great Guest Experiences Begin With Great Leadership

You can't talk about employee performance without talking about leadership. Managers need to develop people, not just manage shifts. That means coaching, mentoring, recognizing, and leading by example. The employee experience ultimately influences the guest experience.

The Three Questions Behind My Approach

Why should a guest choose you again? (For the Restaurant)
Why would a talented employee want to be led by you? (For the Manager)
Why would a guest request you? (For the Server)

When leadership, employees, and hospitality are aligned, you achieve stronger leadership, more engaged employees, better service, more memorable hospitality, greater loyalty, and stronger business performance.

Don't Just Manage Employees. Develop Them.

People need more than a paycheck to feel invested in where they work. Strong restaurant cultures support belonging, recognition, growth, opportunity, and purpose—transforming development into a daily practice, not an occasional event.

About Michael Laurie

Michael Laurie is a restaurant consultant helping owners, managers, and service professionals strengthen the people behind the guest experience. His programs unite service, sales, leadership, and operational performance into practical systems that inspire teams and create lasting results.

The mission: Develop better leaders. Empower service professionals. Create memorable guest experiences.

Choose Your Level of Development

1 DAY | $2,995

Develop the Server. Service • Sales • Hospitality • Server USP.

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3 DAYS | $8,500

Develop the FOH Operation. Diagnose • Develop • Implement.

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5 DAYS | $14,500

Transform the Organization. Diagnose • Develop • Implement • Optimize • Sustain.

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Ready to Start a Conversation?

You don't have to decide now. Book a complimentary 20-minute discovery call to discuss your team’s strengths, challenges, and goals—and see if one of these programs is the right fit. Elevate the experience. Develop the people behind it. Spots are limited—book your call today!

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Engagement Terms

A signed agreement and 50% deposit secure your engagement dates, with the remaining balance due prior to the on-site engagement.

Travel and pre-approved expenses are separate when applicable. Rescheduling, cancellation, late-payment, confidentiality, and other engagement terms are outlined in the consulting agreement.