Operator-grade discipline for hotels, restaurants, and food-service operators who want fewer meetings, better outcomes, and a written plan they can execute themselves.
Begin the Conversation → Run the free P&L checkWe're taking on a small number of founding clients this month. Two ways to begin:
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We move operators to where the numbers, the team, and the guest need them to be — not where a template says.
You work with the principal, not a junior handed your P&L. Independent and operator-first, always.
Priced transparently, because that is how operators wished consultants worked when we sat in your chair.
By the expertise we bring, or by the room we are walking into. Most engagements live at the intersection of both.
The DC Group
"Hospitality is the art and discipline of making someone feel seen — profitably. The room either runs, or it doesn't. The number either lands, or it doesn't."
Denis Chernenko · Founder
Fifteen-plus years of food-and-beverage leadership across six continents, on both sides of the table. When you engage The DC Group, you work with Denis — not a junior handed your P&L. Fewer meetings, sharper answers, a written plan you can run yourself.
Read the full story →Concept-to-launch advisory for a 120-seat independent. Opened on budget · 38% prime cost by month three.
One-week diagnostic across three outlets: labor rebuild, menu re-engineering, vendor renegotiation. 7.4 margin points reclaimed in 90 days.
Outlet mix, capacity modeling, capital budget, operator shortlist. Underwriting model accepted by lender.
Food, beverage, labor, prime, occupancy — read monthly, with 2026 benchmarks.
The two-point gap is won in the schedule, not in pay cuts.
Fix it in order — price, menu, then kitchen.
Vendor-neutral: where it pays, where it doesn't, how to sequence it.
Enter five numbers and get a 60-second read on where margin is leaking — the same first-pass diagnostic we run in week one of every engagement.
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