Blueprint Culinary / Multi-unit expansion
Multi-unit restaurant expansion · Tampa Bay & Florida
We have scaled a concept from 1 unit to 17. We build the systems, playbooks and management layer that make every new location as strong as your first, then stay to keep it that way.
What breaks
Each location becomes its own restaurant without written standards.
Food and labor margins slip from one unit to the next.
The chef's vision does not translate to the next hire.
Every decision still lands on the owner's desk.
Your best people carry the missing structure until they leave.
Each opening is an inconsistent version of the original.
The proof
Ryan Mitchell's career is a scaling story. He was Opening Chef for multiple P.F. Chang's China Bistro locations during the brand's peak, then Regional Partner at Fleming's Prime Steakhouse, responsible for brand leadership and standards. As Founding Partner and VP of Culinary at Fresh Kitchen, he led the brand's culinary expansion from 1 unit to 17.
Blueprint Culinary is that playbook, brought to your concept.
What we build
Recipes, specs, QC and line checks documented once, run everywhere.
Food cost, purchasing and vendor structure that scale.
BOH training, roles and a management layer that decides without you.
Opening timeline, staffing and systems for each new unit.
Kitchen design, equipment and construction oversight.
Six scored assessments a year keep every unit on standard.
How it holds
Most consultants stop at launch, and the systems quietly erode over the next two quarters. The Performance Partnership is how they hold: six Blueprint Performance Assessments a year, one every eight weeks, each a full operating day in your kitchen during real service.
Within 72 hours of each visit you get your Restaurant Health Score out of 100 across six domains, an executive scorecard, a prioritized action plan with named owners and due dates, and a 30-day roadmap. Same scorer, same standard, tracked visit over visit across every location.
See what everything costs on our pricing page, or start with food cost, usually the first number that slips at unit two.
Who you work with
You get the founder, not a junior auditor. Blueprint takes two clients at a time.
Ryan brings 25+ years of chef-led operating experience: classical fine dining, events and banquets at Hound Ears Club; opening multiple P.F. Chang's China Bistro locations during the brand's peak; Regional Partner at Fleming's Prime Steakhouse; then Founding Partner & VP of Culinary at Fresh Kitchen, leading its culinary expansion from 1 unit to 17.
Blueprint Culinary is based in St. Petersburg and works with independent restaurants and growing restaurant groups across Tampa Bay and Florida's west coast.
Operators, not auditors. We work the line with your team until the systems hold.
Questions growing groups ask
Because the first one worked partly because the owner was in the building. The moment you cannot be in two buildings at once, the thing that made it good is the thing you can no longer personally supply. Unless it is turned into systems, it does not travel.
At minimum: documented recipes and specs, a training system that does not depend on one chef, line checks and quality control, food cost and purchasing controls, an opening playbook, and a management layer that can make decisions without you.
Yes. Ryan led Fresh Kitchen's culinary expansion from 1 unit to 17 as Founding Partner and VP of Culinary, after opening multiple P.F. Chang's locations and serving as Regional Partner at Fleming's Prime Steakhouse.
We don't leave. The Performance Partnership, $18,000 per location per year, brings six scored onsite assessments a year, a tracked Restaurant Health Score, and a prioritized action plan after every visit.
Enterprise, starting at $50,000 and scoped to your build, is designed for multi-unit growth. Groups that want consistency first often start with Systems at $35,000 per location.
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Book a free 30-minute call. We will talk through your growth plan and what will break first.
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