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Chef Batuhan Özkök
Investment Consulting
We provide professional guidance to establish your gastronomy investments on solid foundations. Whether opening a new venue or developing growth strategies for your existing business, we support you with an approach that minimizes risks and targets profitability. With our industry expertise, we protect the value of your investment and turn your vision into reality.
Built around positioning, margin control, and service standardsStructured for TR / EN stakeholder communicationAvailable for projects in Turkey and internationally
Currently accepting 2 new advisory engagements for Q3·Limited availability — priority placement
MICHELIN STAR
GAULT & MILLAU
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JW MARRIOTT
Direct answer
What does this engagement solve in practice?
Investment consulting pressure-tests feasibility, capital use, the operator brief, and launch assumptions early enough to move expensive mistakes before opening.
Typical deliverables
- A feasibility checklist and risk note
- CAPEX, OPEX, and working-capital logic
- An investment frame supporting go, revise, or pause
What the work covers
- Review of concept, location, and target-audience fit
- Stress-testing revenue and cost assumptions
- Clarifying the operator brief and launch priorities
Expected outcomes
- A cleaner capital decision
- A more realistic opening and working-capital plan
- Stronger alignment between investor intent and operator execution
Not the right fit when
- Investors seeking validation without discussing the numbers
- Projects that still lack a basic location or audience decision
Our Approach
What does this engagement change?
We provide professional guidance to establish your gastronomy investments on solid foundations. Whether opening a new venue or developing growth strategies for your existing business, we support you with an approach that minimizes risks and targets profitability. With our industry expertise, we protect the value of your investment and turn your vision into reality.
This engagement sharpens your offer around Feasibility & ROI Analysis, Kitchen Investment Planning, Concept Valuation, aligns team decisions, and turns guest experience into a more consistent commercial model.
What do we actually deliver?
The scope is not just a list of recommendations. It creates a decision framework, operating system, and execution logic.
Feasibility & ROI Analysis
Kitchen Investment Planning
Concept Valuation
Location & Market Strategy
Operational Risk Management
Who Is This For?
Is This Service Right for You?
If one of the profiles below sounds like you, this service usually creates the strongest return.
- Restaurant investors preparing for an opening, repositioning, or growth phase
- Operators who need menu, team, and operational standards to improve together
- Boutique hotel and F&B leadership teams
- Businesses trying to protect quality while under margin pressure
Built around positioning, margin control, and service standards
Structured for TR / EN stakeholder communication
Available for projects in Turkey and internationally
How the work is structured
Every engagement starts by clarifying the real operating picture. Only then do we sequence the right actions.
01
Discovery and audit
We map the concept, current operation, guest profile, menu, and margin pressure points quickly and clearly.
02
Blueprint
Priorities, deliverables, and commercial logic are translated into a focused roadmap.
03
Implementation support
Testing, training, rollout, and refinement keep the team aligned to the intended standard.
What outcomes is this built for?
The goal is not a prettier concept deck. It is a clearer offer, a cleaner operation, and a stronger selling model.
2-8 weeks
Typical advisory window
Scaled to brief depth and on-site complexity
15-30%
Potential margin recovery zone
Driven by menu, sourcing, and operational discipline
1 clear roadmap
Decision and priority set
Shared by team, investor, and operator alike
“The work with Chef Batuhan did more than improve the menu. It clarified how we make decisions. Operations became cleaner, the guest experience more consistent, and the team far more confident.”
— Restaurant Group Founder, Istanbul
Frequently Asked Questions
Blog
Recommended Reading
Restaurant Feasibility Study Checklist
A decision-led checklist showing which questions a restaurant or F&B feasibility study must answer before capital is committed.
Read More →CAPEX, OPEX, and Working Capital for Restaurant Investments
A practical decision guide for reading CAPEX, OPEX, and working capital together in restaurant and hotel F&B investments.
Read More →Commercial Kitchen Glossary: CAPEX, OPEX, SOP & Key Terms Explained
What does CAPEX mean? OPEX, SOP, food cost, ticket time, soft opening — a plain-language glossary of the most common commercial kitchen and restaurant investment terms.
Read More →Risk Reversal
Every barrier to starting is removed
Discovery call is free
Zero commitment to start — we map the opportunity together first.
NDA-first engagement
Confidentiality agreement signed before any briefing — institutional trust by default.
Phased scope: cancel at any milestone
Each phase is a standalone deliverable — evaluate ROI milestone by milestone.
Strategy Call
Let’s define the real bottlenecks first
The first conversation is used to assess your current model, target guest profile, and the pressure points around growth, profitability, or execution.
The only thing you need to bring is an honest picture of the current situation.