The restaurant workshop — 3 Days to create your standards — Dec. 1-3, 2026 — Las Vegas, NV
Build the Restaurant That Needs You Less
A hands-on 3-day workshop for independent restaurant owners who are done being the only one who can get the work done right.
A working session. Not a listening session.
The Restaurant Workshop is a three-day, hands-on working session where independent restaurant owners find where their restaurant is leaking profit, time and standards — then install the systems and manager accountability to fix it.
Held in Las Vegas, you go home with your own numbers calculated, your first system chosen, an owner assigned to the result, and a 30-day installation plan you can run the Monday after you get home.
You'll calculate your own numbers, find your own leaks, and build your own plan.
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For owners who are done being the exception handler.
If every shift, every fire, and every decision still runs through you — you don't have a systems problem. You have a "nobody else owns this" problem.
Most restaurant owners don't need more motivation. They need to walk out of a room with their own numbers in hand, their first system chosen, and someone besides themselves responsible for making it stick.
That's what three days in Las Vegas is for.
This workshop is for independent restaurant owners and operators who:
Are tired of being a prisoner to their own restaurant
"Have systems" but still get pulled into every shift, fire and decision
Are done with inconsistent standards and constant follow-up
Want managers who own results instead of waiting for answers
Want food cost, labor cost and prime cost to be managed on purpose
Are ready to do the work, not just take notes
Five things every owner takes home.
The goal isn't more paperwork. It's behavior that repeats without you dragging it across the finish line every single day.
Your real numbers — food cost, labor cost, prime cost, and where the money is actually leaking
Your first system chosen — tied to the pressure it relieves and the number it protects
One owner per result — so the system doesn't depend on you chasing it
Manager operating discipline — the daily, shift and weekly routines that keep standards, numbers and follow-up alive
A 30-day installation plan — a practical path your managers can follow the Monday after you get home
The three-day arc:
Day 1
Find the Leaks — diagnose where money, time, consistency and leadership energy are bleeding out
Day 2
Build the Controls — connect your numbers to food cost, labor cost, prime cost, purchasing and waste systems
Day 3
Transfer the Work — assign ownership, build manager discipline, leave with a 30-day plan
Leave with one system, one owner, one cadence, one clear next move.
Three days in Las Vegas. One installed system can pay for the seat.
Tuesday, Dec. 1 – Thursday, Dec. 3, 2026
233 South 4th St, Las Vegas, NV 89101
The systems taught in this workshop are designed to help restaurant pros recover 2–3 points in food cost or margin opportunity when installed, followed and coached consistently. On a restaurant doing $1 million a year, that's $20,000–$30,000.
The seat doesn't pay for itself because you showed up. It pays for itself when you install what you build.
Choose Your Seat
"I was hitting a bunch of roadblocks — not having a game plan, budgeting, getting and retaining staff, having a clear vision of where I wanted the restaurant to go. The biggest takeaway? The details. A lot of people get so consumed with the big picture that they forget about the little things — the pixels, not just the picture. It's been amazing."
"Would I recommend people come to the next event? 100%. If you're thinking about it, my advice is: just do it. Even just dropping your food costs by 1 to 2% — you'll make that money back in one month, if not sooner."
"My advice for anyone thinking about coming to the next event: do it. Just sign up and come. Even if you think you have everything under control, there's always more to learn — and always more people worth meeting."
Led by someone who's lived every side of this business.
David Scott Peters has lived this business from every angle — growing up in his family's restaurant and catering business, to operations and COO roles for independent and multi-unit brands, to building and selling a restaurant software company, to teaching at the Scottsdale Culinary Institute.
He's been coaching independent restaurant owners since 2003, and the lens is always the same: independent restaurant pros need systems their managers can actually use when the restaurant gets real — not more binders that gather dust after the seminar high wears off.
You'll also get live "Find the Leak" hot seats, where David works through real restaurant numbers and pressure points on stage, and select sessions with guest experts Preston Lee and Matt Plapp going deeper on marketing, growth and implementation.
Clarity Under Pressure. Restaurant coaching for independent owners since 2003.
From David Scott Peters, creator of the Restaurant Prosperity Formula™ — helping independent restaurant owners stop working for their restaurant and start making it work for them.
