the practice

peckish is a hospitality practice. Operators come to it for the operating spine of a well-run room — the floor, the team, the back-of-house, the beverage program, the small mechanics from pre-shift to close-out.

Engagements run on what isn't working yet — a floor that doesn't flow, a beverage program without a point of view, a back-of-house that's draining the front, a pre-shift that's stopped meaning anything. The point isn't to redesign the brand. It's to fix the operating bones. The brand follows.

the work

Beverage program build-out.

Wine and cocktail program from concept to execution. List, pairings, training, vendor relationships, the program's voice on the page.

Pre-opening operations.

Getting a new room ready to open — service systems, team, floor, kitchen line, the first night running like the hundredth.

Floor service overhaul.

Retraining a floor that's lost its standards, never had them, or grew into the wrong ones.

Operations diagnostic.

Diagnosing what's wrong with a room that isn't running right — the unglamorous, expensive parts of finding out what's underneath.


These aren't packages. Engagements get scoped to the room.

reaching out

Tell Harper what's broken and what you've tried. He'll write back fast.

harper@peckish.co