For multi-unit restaurant operators
Standardize your units. Scale without depending on one person.
As you add locations, every store starts developing its own way of doing things. Managers solve problems differently, standards drift, and sooner or later every important decision lands back on your desk. Daloy turns the way your best location operates into the standard across every store, so your next opening adds momentum, not chaos.
For owners, presidents, COOs, and ops leaders running 3+ units. Request an Operations Review, or book a short intro call to see if it's a fit.
Who this is for
Built for multi-unit operators running 3+ stores.
If you run a multi-unit operation and growth has started to outpace the way each store works, this page is for you.
Primary market
Multi-unit restaurant groups
Fast casual, full service, and QSR franchisees running several units on one concept.
Secondary market
Multi-unit food & beverage
Cafe, bakery, ghost-kitchen, and catering groups scaling past their first few locations.
You're a strong fit if:
- 10 to 100 employees across the group
- 3 or more units (we will talk at 2)
- Led by an owner, president, COO, or director of operations
- Feeling unit inconsistency, owner bottleneck, or workflow drift across stores
- Integrating newly acquired or franchised units onto one standard
- Committed to improving operations within the next 90 days.
Sound familiar?
Every unit doing it their own way.
The food is good and demand is there. But the way each store operates drifted apart as you grew, and you feel it when:
- One location preps six pans before lunch. Another preps four. One GM follows the recipe, another eyeballs it. Customers notice, even when your managers don't
- More and more of the business routes back through you instead of staying with your managers
- What worked at two or three units quietly stops working at five or more
- Guest reviews and quality vary by store, which is a process problem, not a people problem
- Seasonal and daypart swings compound across units, so a busy week exposes every gap at once
- The playbook depends on which GM you ask, so nothing is truly standard
You don't have a people problem. You have a systems problem, and a systems problem is fixable across every unit.
WHERE DOES YOUR BUSINESS STAND?
Take the Flow Check
A free 5-minute self-check that scores how much of your business runs on you, and shows you the one thing to fix first. No call required.
Start the Flow CheckWhat it costs you
What unit drift quietly takes off the table.
Owner time lost to fixing store issues
Hours every week spent answering questions and unsticking shifts your managers should be handling. That is time off growth, and it is the cost that compounds first.
Revenue leaking from inconsistent execution
When every unit preps, staffs, and serves differently, margin slips through the gaps. The weakest store quietly sets the ceiling for the rest.
Manager churn and burnout
Good GMs leave when the job is constant firefighting with no clear playbook. Each departure resets the standard at that store and pulls you back in.
A hard growth ceiling
You can feel that the next unit will make the chaos worse, not better. Until the way you operate is standardized, every new store adds risk instead of leverage.
The math
What is inconsistency across units costing you?
When prep, labor, and the guest experience run differently at every unit, your weakest store quietly sets the ceiling for the rest. Estimate what that gap costs across your locations each year.
The offer
The Location Standardization Sprint.
A focused 6 to 8 week engagement that takes how your best unit runs and makes it the standard across every location, without depending on you to enforce it.
What the Sprint covers:
- Map how each unit actually runs today, side by side
- Identify exactly where prep, labor, and service diverge
- Find where everything still depends on you
- Standardize the best of it into one documented operating playbook
- Automate 1 to 2 high-leverage workflows with practical AI
- Embed with your unit managers so the new way sticks
Multi-unit operators can leak six figures a year to inconsistency between stores. The Sprint costs a fraction of that. Take the Flow Check.
For owner-operators
2–4 sites
$25K
Lock in one standard before the next push, while the group is still small enough to change fast.
5–8 sites
$55K
The Sprint's sweet spot. This is the footprint where branch drift compounds fastest, because every added site multiplies the variance.
9+ sites
From $90K
Scoped to your footprint, site by site.
For PE-backed operators and value-creation teams
If you are integrating add-ons or standardizing a portfolio company in the first 100 days, the work is the same but the scope is wider. We price that track separately.
Single portfolio company
From $75K
Includes integrating recent add-ons onto one operating standard.
Multiple companies
Custom
Per-portco rate, with an optional governance retainer.
Sponsor-backed scope adds one step: integrate recent add-ons onto a single operating standard.
Request a Portfolio Operations ReviewNot ready for a full Sprint? AI Groundwork puts practical AI in the hands of one team of up to 15 people from up to two departments, focused on one workflow area, for $5,000 flat. It is the fastest way to see how Daloy works before you standardize the whole group.
Explore AI GroundworkBe straight with yourself
This is not for everyone.
The Sprint works because it's scoped for a specific operator. It is probably not the right fit if:
- You run a single location, or it's the only one you plan to run
- The business has fewer than 10 employees
- You're shopping for POS or kitchen-display software. We standardize operational workflows, not systems you buy
- You're not ready to delegate, and want to stay the one who decides everything
- You want a strategy deck rather than a fixed-scope project your team runs after we leave
Next step
See where your units diverge. No free consulting, no pressure.
The Operations Review is a focused working session on where the business is leaking time and margin, and the first thing to fix. Prefer to talk it through first? Book a short intro call to see if the Sprint is a fit.