Restaurant design & culture consultancy

Build the place people come back to.

Hospitality Hospitality works side by side with independent owners on how their restaurant looks, runs, and feels. Led by the designer and owner behind Spoonbill, a 2020 James Beard Foundation nominee for Outstanding Restaurant Design.

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You built something good. Now it's running you.

The room doesn't feel the way it did on opening night. Good people keep leaving. Regulars get treated like strangers. You know something's off, but you're too close to see it.

That's what I'm here for.

What I do

How it looks. How it runs. How it feels.

01

The concept

Opening something new? Brand, menus, interiors, furniture and fixtures, and the feeling, built as one vision from the first sketch to opening night.

02

The room

Layout, lighting, materials, and the hundred small things a guest feels but never names.

03

The team

Steps of service, onboarding, and a culture people stay for. Some of Spoonbill's staff stayed eight years.

04

The front door

Your website, menus, and brand. The first impression, before anyone walks in.

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I eat, watch a full service, and walk your room front to back. Within five days you get a written report with the ten changes that will matter most, in order. Then we talk it through together.

$1,500

Fixed price. Credited toward any service booked within 30 days.

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Built by someone who's run the floor

Twelve years of rooms. One that got noticed.

Stephen Verret has spent twelve years designing and consulting for restaurants. In 2018 he opened Spoonbill in Lafayette, Louisiana, in a restored Conoco station. He designed the room, built the team, and ran the floor. In 2020, Spoonbill was nominated by the James Beard Foundation for Outstanding Restaurant Design, and it's been featured in national magazines like Southern Living and Garden & Gun.

I don't hand you a binder and leave. I work side by side with you, and when a project calls for a specialist, I bring in people I trust.

2020

James Beard Foundation
Outstanding Restaurant Design nominee

As seen in

Southern Living · Garden & Gun · Louisiana Cookin' · Louisiana Life · New Orleans Magazine

Let's make it the place people come back to.

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