Growth Fork · Restaurant Consultancy

Become the CEO of your own restaurant.

Most owners think they have a staff problem. They actually have a leadership, systems and customer-experience problem. Growth Fork fixes the profit leaks, installs the systems and builds the leaders, so your restaurant runs without you holding it all together.

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Where are you today?

Three ways in. One connected system.

Whether you haven't signed a lease yet, you're open and stretched, or you want live control of your numbers, there's a clear place to start.

Not open yet

Restaurant Build Lab

For founders who haven't opened their doors.

A 4-week live programme to build the business behind your restaurant before you commit serious money.

  • Business plan and 3-year financials
  • Menu costing, staffing and systems
  • A free place drawn every cohort

From £597 with the prize draw

Take the readiness surveyExplore Restaurant Build Lab →
Open and trading

Growth Fork

For owners working in the business, not on it.

Hands-on programmes inside your restaurant that fix profit leaks, install systems and turn your manager into a commercial GM.

  • P.I.L.O.T. 4-week or 12-week implementation
  • F.O.R.K. Leadership for your GM
  • P.U.L.S.E. monthly standards audits

Start with a free scorecard

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Run it on software

B.R.O.S.S.

For owners who want live control of their numbers.

The restaurant operations platform we built in-house. Your systems, live in your restaurant every day.

  • C.O.R.E.: food cost, GP per dish, menu engineering
  • R.O.S.T.E.R.: rotas and labour cost
  • N.E.S.T.: staff onboarding and training

Nine connected apps, one login

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Buying or selling?

Buy an established restaurant, or sell yours, with someone who knows what's behind the numbers.

I want to buy a business I want to sell my business

Sound familiar?

The business runs when you're there. Standards drop when you leave.

Standards drop the moment I'm not there.

Your systems live in your head. When you leave, they leave with you. We put them on paper, in software and in your managers.

I can feel the food cost is wrong, but I can't see where.

Without live numbers you're managing by instinct, and instinct is expensive. We show you exactly where the money goes.

My manager works hard but doesn't think commercially.

Hard work without structure is just effort. We turn your manager into a GM who moves numbers, not just shifts.

I'm paying a manager's salary and still running the place myself.

Your manager is your biggest untapped profit lever. P.I.L.O.T. installs the system that changes that.

It isn't a staff problem. It's leadership, systems and customer experience, and all three can be fixed.

The method

We don't just tell restaurants what to change. We F.O.R.K. IT.

F.O.R.K. IT is our 30-step restaurant transformation framework. Six stages, five steps each, implemented in your restaurant with a timeline and a tick list, because a system that isn't implemented is just a document, and a system that isn't tracked is just a guess.

Murat Yilmaz, Restaurant System Architect, with the six F.O.R.K. IT stages: Find & Filter, Organise & Operate, Rebuild & Restructure, Keep Control, Implement, Track
FFind & FilterFind the truth before you fix the business.
  • F1 Financial Benchmark sales, GP%, food cost, labour and waste.
  • F2 Food Audit recipe costing, portion control and supplier pricing.
  • F3 Floor Observe live service, kitchen workflow and handovers.
  • F4 Frontline Assess leadership, supervisor routines and gaps.
  • F5 Filter Separate symptoms from root causes. Stop guessing.
OOrganise & OperateTurn information into a structured operating system.with B.R.O.S.S.
  • O1 Objectives Define target KPIs and financial baselines.
  • O2 Operations Establish standard operating procedures.
  • O3 Ownership Clarify exact staff roles and responsibilities.
  • O4 Organisation Position people, workflows and systems.
  • O5 Order Connect the B.R.O.S.S. modules into one central system.
RRebuild & RestructureRebuild the floor operation around the solution.Build Lab · P.I.L.O.T.
  • R1 Roles Every team member owns specific deliverables.
  • R2 Routines Opening, prep, shift and closing checklists.
  • R3 Rules Non-negotiable floor and safety standards.
  • R4 Resources B.R.O.S.S. tools, POS and rota access for the team.
  • R5 Results Daily shift execution aligned to gross profit.
KKeep ControlBuild the system, then protect it.P.U.L.S.E.
  • K1 Know Develop commercial GMs who master margins and costs.
  • K2 Keep standards Prevent quality drift during peak service.
  • K3 Keep accountability Who does it? When? Who checks?
  • K4 Keep visibility Live dashboard oversight for the owner.
  • K5 Keep improving Refine workflows through weekly P.U.L.S.E. reviews.
IImplementA system on paper is not a system in the business.
  • I1 Install Digital systems and apps placed into live service.
  • I2 Instruct Role-based training on POS and checklists.
  • I3 Integrate Front of house, kitchen and management working as one.
  • I4 Inspect Live shift audits to verify routines are followed.
  • I5 Improve Fix bottlenecks and service friction live.
TTrackIf you don't measure it, you don't control it.
  • T1 Turnover Live hourly sales, mix and revenue trends.
  • T2 Team Actual versus scheduled labour % and clocking.
  • T3 Till POS voids, discounts, comps and reconciliations.
  • T4 Targets Weekly prime cost performance against budget.
  • T5 Trends Margin trajectory, owner dependency and growth.
Better profitsHappier teamsStronger operationsOwner freedomScalable systemsLasting success

How we work with you

Install it. Lead it. Protect it.

P.I.L.O.T.

Install the system.

A hands-on implementation live inside your working restaurant, not a course or a workshop. Your B.R.O.S.S. apps go live, checklists and routines are installed, and you get daily accountability and weekly coaching.

4-week or 12-week option

F.O.R.K. Leadership

Build the leader.

Turns your manager into a commercial General Manager: someone who reads the P&L, protects margin and runs a team that doesn't need you on every shift.

Length scoped on your call

P.U.L.S.E.

Protect the standard.

Monthly accountability after P.I.L.O.T.: KPI reviews, standards audits, manager coaching and mystery dining, so what was built doesn't slip.

Monthly · cancel any time

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Free tools · start here

Before you spend a penny, use these.

Practical tools built from our own systems. Free and genuinely useful.

Free · 5 minutes

Restaurant Profit Protection Scorecard

Score your restaurant on the 7 skills that protect profit and find your biggest profit leak, with your full report by email.

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Free tool

Menu Engineering Tool

Find your Stars, Plowhorses, Puzzles and Dogs. See which dishes make money and which cost you, with an action for each.

Free tool

Restaurant Profit Calculator

Weekly GP%, labour %, prime cost and sales per labour hour from your real numbers. Keep a weekly log and save the calculator to your computer.

Who you'll work with

Built on the floor, not from a textbook.

Growth Fork was founded by Murat Yilmaz after 35+ years leading restaurants across the UK, Turkey and South Africa. Every framework, programme and app we use came from running real kitchens, real floors and real P&Ls.

"If we make you grow, we grow. That's not a service. That's a partnership."

Murat Yilmaz, Founder

Open and trading?Find your biggest profit leak Not open yet?Restaurant Build Lab readiness survey Want the software?Explore B.R.O.S.S.

Free live sessions with Murat

Upcoming events

Two hours, live and online, on the questions restaurant owners and founders ask most. Free to join, with time for your own questions.

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Talk to us

Book a free 30-minute discovery call.

Tell us about your restaurant and what's keeping you up at night. You'll talk to Murat directly.

Free 30-minute discovery callTalk through your restaurant · no obligation Quick 15-minute questionFree · for one specific question 1-hour strategy session · £120Deep dive on your numbers, menu or team WhatsApp Murat07399 339449 07399 339449Call murat@growthfork.co.ukEmail

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