FrameworkHospitality · 6 min read
Building a Restaurant Group from One Concept
How founders scale from a single location to a multi-unit group — and the unit economics that decide who survives.
The leap from one restaurant to three is the hardest in the industry. Founders who make it share a discipline around prime cost (COGS plus labor under 60%), a repeatable training system, and a real estate strategy that doesn't bet the company on a single lease.
We sit down with a multi-unit founder and walk through the P&L line items where careers — and companies — are actually made.