Restaurant Consulting · Austin Metro
Ben Mouton — 35 years in restaurants, 14 of them owning his own.
I ran the P&L for fourteen years. Opened one converted diner in Leander in 2012, added Cedar Park in 2018, consolidated to a single unit in 2024, and sold it in 2026 — prime cost held at 62% the whole way.
What I Work On
Price, portion, and plate-cost work aimed at food-cost points — while keeping the dishes your regulars actually order.
Prime-cost discipline from someone who held 62% in his own building — schedules, ordering, waste, and the numbers behind them.
Pre-opening systems, permits and inspections, and triage when an existing room is bleeding.
25 years on the technology side too — POS implementation, reporting you'll actually read, and picking software that earns its fee.
Review distributor pricing, terms, and delivery windows against your actual volume — and push for the match.
TABC and health-inspection readiness built into daily operations, not crammed before a visit.
Custom Software
Heard about operators building their own software and don't know where to start? That's the other thing I do. I run an AI-driven development system that built the restaurant and field-service apps shown on this site — if your restaurant needs something custom, the same system can build it. Scoped per project; bring the idea to the free intro call.
Pricing — Published, Not Quoted
I also build the $9.99-a-month app that covers a good chunk of this. Consulting is the human layer the app doesn't replace — a live operator in your numbers with you, one-on-one, at rates printed here instead of hidden behind a discovery call.
Intro Call
Free · 30 minutes
Working Sessions
$150 / hour
Monthly Advisory
$1,500 / month
Let's Talk
Independent restaurants and small groups in the Austin metro — Cedar Park, Leander, Round Rock, and Austin proper. If I'm not the right fit, I'll say so on the free call.