Restaurant Solutions Network

What Restaurant Solutions Network does

Restaurant Solutions Network, Inc. (RSN) is a privately held consulting firm headquartered in Brentwood, Tennessee, founded in 2004. It delivers cost-management and procurement services to multi-unit operators across the restaurant, healthcare, hospitality, and broader foodservice industries, with named customers including Kindred Healthcare, California Pizza Kitchen, Emeritus Senior Living, Jack In The Box, Elmcroft Senior Living, and Supply Management Services Inc. The company states it serves thousands of facilities nationwide.

The firm's offering spans five service lines: distribution auditing, energy management, energy supply and demand services, and waste disposal consulting, all built around a single-point-of-contact engagement model. The core technical asset is a proprietary vendor and rate benchmarking capability accumulated across multi-unit food, beverage, energy, and waste categories, which the firm applies to client contracts to identify savings relative to existing vendor terms.

RSN operates under a performance-based pricing model, meaning the firm is compensated only when it delivers verified savings to a client, with no upfront or monthly retainer. This aligns fees to client outcomes and creates a long-tail services revenue structure tied to the duration and depth of category audits. The firm is a small privately held business (11-50 employees), without disclosed funding rounds, M&A activity, partnerships, leadership changes, or external certifications.

Name

Restaurant Solutions Network

Legal name

Restaurant Solutions Network, Inc.

Website

https://restaurantsolutionsnetwork.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2004

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Restaurant Solutions Network is a performance-based consulting firm serving multi-unit restaurant, healthcare, hospitality, and foodservice operators with distribution, energy, and waste cost-management services from its headquarters in Brentwood, Tennessee.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Brentwood

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Performance-Based Consulting Fees: RSN is a performance-based company that is only compensated if they provide a positive benefit to the client's company. This aligns their incentives directly with client cost savings and success.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

Restaurant Solutions Network is a performance-based management consulting firm that delivers cost reduction services to multi-unit operators in the restaurant, healthcare, hospitality, and foodservice industries. Its core offerings include proprietary vendor and distributor auditing, distribution program development, energy portfolio management and procurement, energy supply and demand contracting, and waste disposal and recycling management.

Product overview

Restaurant Solutions Network (RSN) is a performance-based consulting company providing multiple integrated services to multi-unit operators in the restaurant, healthcare, hospitality, and foodservice industries. The company offers five core service modules: Auditing Services (proprietary contract compliance auditing), Distribution Services (program development and management), Energy Management Services (utility cost management and procurement), Energy Supply and Demand Services (energy contracting and risk management), and Waste Disposal Services (disposal and recycling management). These services are designed to work together to reduce costs and increase operational efficiencies for clients with multiple facilities.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Auditing Services Proprietary process that audits vendors, buying groups, GPOs and distributors for contract compliance. Evaluates product costs, freight charges, and marketing allowances to establish accurate landed product costs with measurable guidelines and action plans. Target customers are multi-unit restaurant, healthcare, hospitality, and foodservice operators.
• Distribution Services Develops and manages distribution programs that provide efficient and cost-effective distribution services for multi-unit operators. Assists with creating new programs or modifying existing ones, including purchasing needs, to reduce distribution costs.
• Energy Management Services Independent, unbiased energy portfolio management providing utility cost management, rate analysis, energy procurement, and market/regulatory monitoring for gas and electric services. Operates with no affiliations to suppliers, utilities, manufacturers, brokers, procurement providers, or financial institutions.
• Energy Supply and Demand Services Energy supply negotiation and contracting services that advise on best possible energy cost structures, assist with policies and procedures for energy procurement, and provide market movement and risk management awareness for multi-unit operators.
• Waste Disposal Services Researches, procures, and manages waste disposal and recycling services, providing a single point of contact. Includes invoice auditing, contract management and negotiation, cost savings analysis, financial impact reporting, and implementation assistance for multi-unit operators across the United States.

Quantifiable outcome

• Saved millions of dollars managing utilities for Kindred Healthcare
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers7 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Direct peers

• McKinstry: McKinstry delivers facility support, energy, and waste management services to multi-unit owners across real estate, healthcare, and hospitality. It overlaps directly with RSN's facilities support management capabilities.
• Cost Control Associates: Cost Control Associates provides foodservice cost reduction, vendor auditing, and distribution consulting to restaurants and multi-unit operators. It mirrors RSN's restaurant-focused vendor auditing and distribution services.
• ENGIE Insight (formerly Ecova): ENGIE Insight provides energy management, sustainability, and waste/comms cost management services to multi-site enterprises. It is the closest scaled competitor to RSN's energy management, supply, and waste disposal modules.
• Foodservice Consulting Technologies: FSCT offers restaurant and foodservice operators cost management, technology, and consulting services. It is a comparable boutique cost consultancy serving the same buyer profile as RSN.
• EnergyWatch: EnergyWatch is an independent energy management and procurement consultancy serving multi-site commercial customers. RSN's energy management and supply/demand services compete in the same buyer conversation.

Broad incumbents

• Plante Moran: Plante Moran is a large advisory firm serving restaurant and healthcare multi-unit operators with cost optimization, audit, and operations consulting. It competes at the enterprise tier where RSN's clients operate.
• RSM US: RSM US is a large professional services firm with a sizable restaurant and hospitality practice. It offers cost optimization, audit, and advisory services that overlap with RSN's vendor auditing and energy management.
• BDO USA: BDO USA is a major accounting and advisory firm serving restaurants, healthcare, and hospitality. Its restaurant solutions practice and broader advisory services sit adjacent to RSN's offerings.
• CohnReznick: CohnReznick is a national advisory and accounting firm with a dedicated foodservice and hospitality practice. It competes with RSN for cost management, audit, and consulting engagements at multi-unit operators.

Emerging players

• Restaurant Resource Group: Restaurant Resource Group is a smaller consulting firm focused on restaurant operations and cost management. It is a comparable niche provider to multi-unit restaurant operators.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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