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The Italian Trattoria Guide
The Italian Trattoria Guide
Inside this guide
Guide + Tools, $189. Not just a download: the full operating plan, the tools, and a chef on your numbers.
- The full guide (PDF): 28 costed recipes in grams, menu pricing, kitchen layout, staff workflow, 12-month P&L.
- Recipe Costing Sheet (Excel): 28 dish rows, type your supplier prices, get food cost % and the price you need to charge.
- Opening Budget & Break-Even (Excel): every opening cost line including the bond and rent before opening; shows the customers per day you need.
- The 22-app toolkit listed below.
- Ask the Chef: 3 questions about your venue, answered by email within 7 days.
- Numbers Review (once): send your filled-in budget or costing sheet and get back what is missing, what is too optimistic, and what to change before you sign anything.
One avoided mistake pays for this ten times over. Questions and the review: Ask the Chef and quote your order number.
The Italian Trattoria Guide — NYC Dinner Standard
Benchmarked against the 10 most iconic Italian restaurants in New York City — Carbone, Don Angie, Via Carota, I Sodi, Lilia, Rezdôra, L'Artusi, Barbuto, Cacio e Pepe, and Emmett's.
This is not a recipe collection. This is a complete operating system for running a trattoria at the level New York's best do it.
What's inside:
- 28 dishes — 6 antipasti, 10 pasta & secondi, 4 desserts, 8 drink
- Every recipe includes full ingredient list with US market costs, food cost %, numbered method steps, temp badges, allergen row, and chef tip
- NYC comparison table — all 10 benchmark restaurants with key lessons
- Kitchen design — pasta station layout, equipment list
- 4 service scripts — aperitivo sell, carafe upsell, bistecca tableside, espresso close
- Daily prep schedule — 7AM to service
- Staff forecast — 10 roles with NYC 2025 wage rates
- Full P&L model — 60-seat, $85 avg spend, dinner 5 nights/week
- Customer retention system
Signature dishes covered: Cacio e Pepe · Rigatoni alla Vodka (Carbone) · Agnolotti Brown Butter (Lilia) · Tortellini en Brodo tableside (Rezdôra) · Bistecca Fiorentina carved tableside · Pollo al Mattone (Barbuto) · Osso Buco · Tiramisù dusted tableside
YOUR FREE BONUS TOOLKIT — 22 apps included with purchase:
🧮 Food Cost Calculator
🔢 Break-Even Calculator v2
📋 Restaurant Opening Checklist
👥 Labour Planner + Roster
💵 Cash Flow Forecast
📊 Menu Engineering Matrix
📝 Daily Prep Sheet Generator
🗑️ Waste Tracker
🌡️ Temperature Log (HACCP)
🔄 Shift Handover Report
📅 Pre-Opening Timeline
🎓 Staff Onboarding Kit
🏥 Health Inspection Prep
🤝 Lease Negotiation Guide
📦 Supplier Negotiation Kit
🗓️ Opening Week Runsheet
🔍 Competitor Analysis Tool
💼 Investor Pitch Builder
📱 Social Media Launch Playbook
🍺 Liquor License Guide
📲 KitchenFounder OS App
👨🍳 Roster Builder
All tools work on any device. No account needed.
Yours forever. $0 extra.
Format: PDF (A4) + 22 interactive HTML tools. Instant download after purchase.
What you receive
- Complete recipe bible, every dish costed to the gram
- Full monthly and annual P&L model with assumptions
- Staff forecast, roster hours and labour percentage
- Kitchen design, equipment list and daily prep schedule
- Word-for-word service scripts and upsell language
- Customer retention systems and allergen matrix
Who this is for
Head chefs building a new concept, owner-operators reworking a menu that isn't making money, and first-time founders who need the numbers before they sign a lease. Written by a working executive chef, not a consultant.
Format and delivery
High-resolution PDF, emailed to you at checkout. The Excel tools are on your Downloads page straight away. Opens on phone, tablet and desktop, and prints clean for the kitchen wall.
Refunds
Digital products are delivered instantly and can't be returned, so refunds aren't offered once the file has been downloaded. If your link fails or the file won't open, tell us through Ask the Chef and it's fixed or refunded the same day.
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What arrives after checkout.
The guide PDF comes by email. The Recipe Costing Sheet and the Opening Budget & Break-Even model are on your Downloads page straight away. Reply to your order email with the guide name and the costing sheet comes back pre-loaded with its 28 recipes within 7 days. Your three Ask the Chef questions and your Numbers Review go through Ask the Chef; quote your order number.
Members pay $160.65 for this guide.
Membership is $9.99 a month: download 2 guides each month, every tool, one chef question a month, and 15% off any other guide with code MEMBER15.