The Rollout Field Guide · from the team behind 12,000+ restaurant openings
How chain restaurants actually get opened.
Plain answers on permits, landlord work letters, site surveys, kitchen equipment and opening schedules, for brands opening 10+ locations a year. Every number is sourced. Every guide comes from what we see on real projects.
Stop 1
Sites and existing conditions
What to verify about a site before the lease and before design, so the drawings match the building.
Stop 2
Permits, landlords and bids
Plan review, landlord work letters and GC bids: the paperwork that quietly decides your opening date.
Stop 3
Kitchen design and equipment
Foodservice layout, hoods, MEP coordination and equipment lead times for chain restaurant kitchens.
Stop 4
Opening on time
Where restaurant openings slip, week by week, and how multi-unit teams keep the date.
Stop 5
Running a multi-unit rollout
Prototypes, status reporting and the systems that let a development team open 10, 20 or 50 locations a year.
Free tools
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Free restaurant site check
Compare a site with your restaurant's requirements and get the questions to ask the landlord. Free, instant, no account.
FreeRestaurant Opening Construction Cheat Sheet
A printable list of the handoffs that most often cause delays, change orders and missed opening dates.
FreeRestaurant Opening Readiness Survey
Answer 12 practical questions and get a readiness score across site, design, construction and opening day.
Talk to the team behind 12,000+ openings
Bring your next 10 openings. We'll show you where each one will slip.
In 30 minutes we walk your schedule, flag the sites most likely to stall in permits, landlord work or equipment, and show how we would fix each one on paper first.
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