Pete Sittnick has spent the last 25 years in the Bay Area restaurant industry. In 2014, Pete partnered with Pat Kuleto to develop the extremely popular Waterbar and Epic Roasthouse restaurants — Waterbar features spectacular views and the freshest sustainable seafood, while Epic Roasthouse offers contemporary cooking techniques on traditional steakhouse ingredients. The two restaurants opened in January 2008 and immediately saw success, but then the recession hit at the end of the year and they saw a nearly 20% drop in business, forcing them to be a lot more conscientious of prime costs, specifically labor. Enter Avero!
Pete believes that “if you are going to manage your P&L, you cannot wait for the end of the period and then review, because it just perpetuates inefficiencies. You would already be halfway through the next period before you made a change.” By leveraging Avero’s labor solutions, Pete sees about 50 basis points in labor savings across both restaurants, which is about $100,000 labor dollars a year. This is not just a savings he has seen once, though; his team has continued to see the benefits in labor savings for over five years.
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