Built for independent F&B operators. Coffee shops, cafes, restaurants, dessert shops, and quick-service businesses.

Whether you are planning to open or already running.

Your food business is leaking money right now. Not in one disaster, but in the small, daily, invisible gaps nobody looks at. Food cost creeping up. Staff turning over. Service that changes depending on who is on shift. Routines skipped when the team is tired.

These leaks almost never get measured. So you work harder, and the profit still does not match the effort.

GidsMakers builds the operational systems that close those gaps.

Founded by Tara Mangan, who brings more than fifteen years inside F&B operations together with a product background, twelve years in product marketing and three in product management. That mix shapes the work. The first question is never what is wrong with your menu. It is who your customer is and why they come back. Then the systems get built to make that answer hold. Real tools from real kitchens and real floors.

What's here

Free Opening Checklist. The fourteen operational areas every food business needs before opening, and the same list to audit if you are already running.

Free Coffee Shop Problem Guide. What a coffee shop quietly loses when the systems underneath it are missing, and where to look first.

Food Business Systems Framework. Sixty-nine pages. The four-layer GidsMakers Operational Framework and a full diagnostic across the ten systems that hold any F&B business together. It shows you what each gap is costing you in profit, retention, and time. Includes a complimentary thirty-minute Walkthrough Call with Tara, for the first 25 buyers.

SOP Playbook. The procedures that hold under pressure. A seven-component SOP format, a priority system, and an implementation timeline built for table-service and quick-service.

COGS Playbook. Sixty-plus pages. Yield testing, recipe costing, menu pricing, break-even, and waste tracking. The math behind your menu.

Food Cost and Inventory Playbook. In progress. Stock control, receiving, storage, FIFO and FEFO, variance tracking, and par levels. The system that keeps what the COGS Playbook saves you from leaking back out.

Coming next.

The Food Cost and Inventory Playbook, then the KPI, Monitoring, and Audit Playbooks in sequence, to complete the Control Loop that keeps every system working past week one.

If your revenue is good but your profit does not match, the answer is here. Start with the free guides, or go straight to the Framework.

contact us: hello@gidsmakers.com