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Time is the product. Perception is the proof. Food and beverage are the tool.
TIME & Perception=UPSIDE
Delivered by Apex instructors, building food, cocktail, and floor systems your team can run.
Time and perception are the product. Food and beverage are the device.
The Idiot Savants is a Maverick Theory company, built as a collection of position-based specialists and instructors across hospitality. That means our team is not one type of consultant trying to cover everything. We are chefs, beverage leaders, hosts, maître d’, managers, regional operators, owners, and founders, all operating at the highest level in our respective lanes. There is no gap in coverage. Every critical position that decides whether a venue wins or loses on a busy night is represented in one group.
Hospitality is also an industry full of people posed as experts. The issue is not confidence. The issue is credibility. Real expertise comes with receipts: the wins, the losses, and the mistakes you survived. Everyone is an expert until a busy Friday night reminds them that we all still have work to do. We call ourselves The Idiot Savants because mastery is a long record of mistakes you survived, the mentors you listened to, and the standards you refused to compromise.
Restaurants do not fail because the idea is bad. They fail because the operation is dependent on a few heroes. When those heroes are tired, absent, or gone, everything breaks. We build a system that makes performance repeatable. Your people do not carry the restaurant. The restaurant carries the people. You are not investing in advice. You are building a system in your venue.
Ideology and Approach
Margins matter, but they do not create cash flow in real time. What pays the bills is capturing demand when you actually have it. We focus on peak-window performance: time, pace, attachment, and repeat frequency. The goal is simple: use the same room, the same staff, and the same demand to sell more inventory with less chaos.
Operators are taught to chase clean metrics and raise prices, but pricing is only one lever. The real advantage comes from using what you already have when demand is highest. We focus on the variables that control real-time revenue: speed, pacing, attachment, and repeat visits.
When time is managed, pace becomes intentional, service feels calmer, quality becomes consistent, and your business captures more of its peak demand without burning out the team.
We do not give advice from a distance. We install standards and systems that make time visible, measurable, and manageable, then we train management to reinforce them so performance holds through turnover and pressure, not just on slow nights.
Standards, Enforcement, and Training
Our work is built around one operating truth: performance has to be teachable, enforceable, and repeatable. We install time standards across every facet of the venue, then we train the team to execute them and train management to enforce them. That is how results hold through turnover. It is not about heroic talent. It is about a system that the employee adapts to, not the other way around.
The Three Engines That Drive ROI
Kitchen Engine
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Rebuild or refine the menu around market demand, kitchen layout constraints, and the skill ceiling of the current team so it can be executed consistently under volume.
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Install ticket time standards by category and align prep, station responsibilities, and pickup flow to those standards.
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Simplify complexity where it exceeds execution reality, reduce drag items, and rebalance station load to remove bottlenecks.
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Reset station flow, prep protocols, and execution SOPs to reduce variance, re-fires, waste, and overtime.
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Improve peak window throughput while protecting food quality and consistency.
Bar Engine
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Install drink time standards by category and align service bar workflow to hit those standards without chaos.
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Build a batching program with pars, labeling, shelf life discipline, and repeatable prep cadence so speed and quality rise together.
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Standardize spec discipline, build methods, and quality control so the program is consistent across bartenders.
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Optimize rail, tools, glassware, ice, and service bar setup to reduce touches and increase throughput.
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Increase attachment and repeat frequency by strengthening value perception through consistent, high-quality execution at an accessible price posture.
When We Talk About “Buy-In”​
We do not mean the owner saying yes. We mean the managers and the staff believing the system makes their nights easier. Most incentive programs in restaurants push the wrong behavior. Chasing sales turns service into a scramble and guests into numbers. We do the opposite. We make time the scoreboard.
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When time is visible and measurable, the team stops guessing what “good” looks like. Training becomes clearer. Execution becomes calmer. People know how to win a shift without rushing guests. And once time standards are in place, the sales take care of themselves because throughput, pacing, and consistency improve naturally.
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That is when incentives finally become fair. We help you set up simple reward programs tied to time performance across kitchen, bar, and floor, whether it is a comped meal, a cash bonus, preferred shifts, or a team competition. The goal is friendly pressure, not punishment. A system the staff can beat together, every night, without heroics.
10 Pillars
Two engines, one operating system
We install a practical operating system that treats the kitchen and bar as separate engines. The kitchen improves turns by shaving minutes off ticket times and coursing. The bar improves weekly revenue through pricing accessibility, consistency, and repeatability designed to increase drinks per guest and guest visits per week.
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From elite execution to manageable systems
We convert high-level operator instincts into standards and routines that your team can execute without heroic labor.
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We do not advise, we install standards
We establish clear time and pacing standards across the kitchen, bar, and floor so performance is measurable, repeatable, and coachable.
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Kitchen performance by minutes, not miracles
We improve ticket times by a matter of minutes through menu engineering, prep sequencing, station flow, and line organization. Small reductions compound across a rush into meaningful capacity, fewer failures, and calmer execution.
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Menu development is part of the work
While improving speed and consistency, we still build and refine menus so the product gets better, not simpler. The goal is food that feels elevated, executes cleanly, and holds up under pressure.
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Cocktail list creation with disruptive pricing
We build a cocktail list designed to live around $8 to $9 using Super Fancy formulation, batching where it helps, and technique that keeps the experience premium while protecting margin, with the goal of increasing drinks per guest and increasing the number of guest visits per week.
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Bar execution that scales without adding headcount
We train bartenders on repeatable technique, batching execution, prep discipline, speed standards, and consistency checks so the bar moves faster, feels more premium, and does not rely on heroic labor to perform.
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Floor leadership training with a real operating narrative
We train managers to run the room with a clear pacing system rather than wandering and reacting. Host stand, servers, bussers, bar, and kitchen move with intent.
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Steps of service built for flow, not pressure
We tune service sequencing so guests move naturally through the experience without feeling rushed. That includes table touches, ordering guidance, coursing rhythm, pre-bussing, check timing, and recovery standards.
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Managers become conductors, not firefighters
The outcome is a leadership team that paces the building like the best high-volume operators do, keeping the experience calm, consistent, and profitable while quietly unlocking more revenue from the same footprint.
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