John Nessel,
Financial Management, Cost Controls & Business Plan Development
John Nessel became the Principal of
Restaurant Solutions Boston office in 2003. Aside from managing the
firms overall business development, his focus has been in the area
of developing new restaurant business and financial plans, and in
implementing all of our client's Financial Controls systems from
back of house Accounting to POS systems integration, Food and
Beverage cost controls and the control of Labor expenses through
effective and proactive scheduling techniques.
John is also the President
of the Restaurant Resource Group.
A 30 year veteran of the industry,
John began his career in the kitchens of some rather unmemorable
restaurants in the late 60's. Things started to look up as he charged
his way through the ranks, first as an egg and pancake slinging short
order cook at Flapjacks in Aspen, CO and then on to bigger, and more
importantly, higher paying industry gigs in the New England region (with a few kitchen
"jockey" positions
thrown in to round out his rather limited culinary chops).
Thank goodness he discovered that his
skills lied in more entrepreneurial endeavors within the industry.
He has since
created, designed, brought to life and operated a variety of restaurant
concepts ranging from City Market, a New York Style Gourmet Deli and
Cafe; City Side, an upscale and eclectic fine dining restaurant, Jazz Bar
and casual cafe and Aesops Bagels, a Boston based chain of retail bagel
cafes with a manufacturing plant selling frozen bagels to all main-line
New England food distributors.
In 1999 John hung
up his apron, and created the Restaurant Resource Group.
Initially the company provided financial management and support services
to Boston area restaurants. John now
provides these services to a national clientele. In 2002 he wrote and
published the
Restaurant Operators Compete Guide to QuickBooks which
has become the definitive industry specific guide to the accounting
software program used by most independent restaurants today. The book,
along with John's
custom Excel spreadsheet applications and many other restaurant
operations and management products, are available at John's
website
John also writes articles relating to restaurant finance and operations
that are posted to a variety of industry websites including
Restaurant Owner.com and Restaurant Report. He is also a
regular
contributor to Restaurant Startup and Growth Magazine, and offers
full day seminars
on a variety of financial and operations topics to groups of independent
owners and operators.
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