Labor
Scheduling accuracy, deployment, breaks, clock-ins, and handoffs.
Outside restaurant operating support • Fractional cost
Get market-level leadership without adding another executive salary.
Practical, operator-led support for independent restaurants that need to fix operational gaps, strengthen managers, and verify follow-through across profit, people, and execution.
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Why Josh
Restaurant leadership built in real operations.
McBride Restaurant Consulting brings an operator's perspective to every engagement: practical priorities, clear ownership, and improvements that can hold during a real shift.
Read why I built this firmLocal Eastside support
Restaurant consulting where you operate.
Josh is based in Kirkland and serves independent restaurants across the Eastside with onsite and remote support.
Where profit slips away
Small operational misses become expensive habits.
The audit turns day-to-day observations into a short, ranked action plan—so you know what to address first and what the improvement could be worth.
Food cost
Portion tools, prep discipline, waste patterns, and consistency.
Throughput
Bottlenecks affecting ticket time, capacity, and guest experience.
Execution
Cross-training, standards, order accuracy, and shift ownership.
The McBride Operating Method
A repeatable path from operating evidence to follow-through.
The method keeps every engagement and toolkit focused on the same management rhythm: define the problem, verify the facts, choose one priority, assign the work, and recheck the result.
- 01DefineName the problem, baseline, scope, and result that matters.
- 02VerifyUse reliable records and direct observation—not assumptions.
- 03PrioritizeChoose the highest-impact controllable cause.
- 04ImplementAssign the action, owner, deadline, tool, and guardrails.
- 05MeasureRecheck a comparable shift and keep, revise, or stop the control.
Ongoing support
Choose the level of accountability your operation needs.
Fractional operating leadership
Weekly operator support
$1,320 per 28-day period + $660 onboardingFour two-hour working sessions every 28 days for operators who need active follow-through, management accountability, and faster course correction.
- Every included hour is billed at exactly $165
- Every plan includes the $699.99 digital library and implementation guidance free
- Fixed terms end automatically
Structured progress review
Once-per-period operator support
$330 per 28-day period + $660 onboardingOne two-hour working session every 28 days for restaurants that need a senior operating checkpoint without weekly involvement.
- Every included hour is billed at exactly $165
- Every plan includes the $699.99 digital library and implementation guidance free
- Fixed terms end automatically
Manager development
Manager workshop
$165 per facilitated hourA live working session around one agreed management priority, such as accountability, communication, labor ownership, shift leadership, or difficult conversations.
- In person preferred; Microsoft Teams available
- Topic and outcomes confirmed before the workshop
- Relevant internal-use materials included when useful
- Optional bundle, labor, or food-cost toolkit add-on at booking
Hands-on execution
Restaurant implementation day
$1,320 one time · eight hours at $165Up to eight focused hours helping the restaurant put agreed operational improvements into practice instead of stopping at recommendations.
- Up to eight hours of implementation support
- Pre-agreed operating priorities and boundaries
- On-site delivery preferred
- Action recap and next-step priorities
- $699.99 digital library and implementation guidance included free
One period is exactly 28 consecutive calendar days. Recurring plans have a fixed number of charges and end automatically. One-period weekly support, workshops, implementation days, coaching, and digital products are one-time purchases. Travel from 11829 NE 131st Pl, Kirkland can be arranged anywhere: the first 60 minutes each way are included, then each additional travel minute is $2.75 ($165/hour). Pre-approved airfare, lodging, parking, tolls, rental vehicles, and similar direct costs are additional. Final scope, travel assumptions, billing, and deliverables are documented in a signed Statement of Work before paid work or travel begins.
Prepared. Evidence-first. Accountable.
Meet Josh McBride.
My operating experience includes responsibility for annual sales volumes ranging from $3 million to $5 million and teams of 10-45 people. With nearly a decade in restaurant leadership, I have developed and promoted 15 team members into higher-level roles while working to grow sales, reduce avoidable costs, and improve restaurant results.
My career began in franchise management at 18, including overseeing two Subway locations. After college, I returned to restaurant leadership as a Panera general manager and later helped lead the grand opening of Secret Burger Kitchen's third restaurant in Kirkland, Washington. That experience shaped my direct, people-aware approach: respect the team, verify the facts, establish clear ownership, and protect the business through consistent execution.
Hands-on leadership means noticing the details, taking ownership, and protecting the guest experience.
Why the method is different
Focused controls that another manager can understand and verify.
The five steps stay consistent. These operating principles keep the work credible, usable on a real shift, and clear enough for someone besides Josh to recheck.
- 01Evidence before opinionNumbers, source records, and direct observation are separated from assumptions.
- 02One controllable priorityThe team works the highest-value cause it can actually influence.
- 03Visible ownershipEvery action has an owner, deadline, tool, and escalation condition.
- 04Comparable verificationThe result is rechecked under conditions that make the comparison useful.
Written scope before work begins
Evidence separated from recommendations
Ranked action plan your managers can use
Measurement check after implementation
“I don’t sell guesses. I document what is happening, identify what matters most, and build a plan that can be measured on a real shift.”
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SelectedOnce-per-period operator support — 6 periods
$660 onboarding + $330 every 28 days for 6 periods · $2,640 total
At $50,000 in weekly sales, the full 6-period engagement equals about 0.22% of sales across its 24-week term. It would need to help protect or recover roughly $110 per week to offset its cost. Illustration only; actual results vary.Includes the complete $699.99 digital library and help implementing the relevant systems during the engagement.Travel from 11829 NE 131st Pl, Kirkland: the first 60 minutes each way are included. Additional driving, scheduled flight/rail time, and destination ground transportation are $2.75 per minute ($165/hour), plus pre-approved direct costs. A written estimate is approved before travel. See the full travel policy.Select a time Pacific Time
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Start times are offered every 30 minutes from 6:00 AM through 8:00 PM Pacific. The selected service must finish by midnight, so only very long engagements lose later start times. Every paid appointment blocks its full duration so another customer cannot overlap it.