For small businesses & restaurants
Nautilus Strategies & Consulting gives owner-operators the financial insight of a full finance team — cost build-outs, fractional CFO guidance, and clear-eyed financial breakdowns — without the full-finance-team payroll.
Cost build-outs
know what everything really costs
Fractional CFO
senior finance leadership, part-time
Financial breakdowns
your numbers, finally legible
What we do
Engage one, or combine all three. Every engagement starts with the same thing: your real numbers, on the table.
Every dish, every product, every service line — priced from the ground up with real ingredient, labor, and overhead costs. Stop guessing margins and start engineering them.
Senior finance leadership on a schedule that fits your business. Budgeting, forecasting, cash-flow management, and a steady hand for the decisions that shape your future.
A full diagnostic of where your money actually goes. We untangle your P&L, surface hidden leaks, and hand you a plain-language action plan.
Who we serve
We work exclusively with owner-operators — people close enough to the numbers to care, and busy enough to need a partner who handles the detail.
Full-service, fast-casual, cafés, and bars. Menu engineering, food and labor cost control, and the weekly numbers that keep a service profitable.
Retail, trades, studios, and local services. Pricing that holds up, clean books you can act on, and growth plans grounded in cash, not hope.
Opening a second location, absorbing a rent increase, or just tired of working hard without knowing what's working — the work is the same: make the numbers tell the truth.
How it works
A free conversation about your business, your goals, and what's keeping you up at night. No pitch — just listening.
We pull apart your books, costs, and operations, then walk you through what we found in plain language — with the math to back it up.
Cost build-outs, budgets, forecasts, and recurring reporting — plus ongoing CFO guidance as your business grows.
Why the nautilus
Nautilus Strategies & Consulting was founded on a simple observation: the businesses that most need sharp financial guidance — independent restaurants and small companies — are the least able to hire it full-time. We grow the spiral the same way the nautilus does: chamber by chamber, each expansion built on the strength of the last.
Practical analysis. Plain language. Numbers you can actually use on Monday morning.
φ metrix
Restaurant cost control, from dock to plate
PhiMetrix is our own app — built by restaurant operators, for restaurant operators. Invoices, recipes, PoS sales and payroll slip into one calm view of what every location really earns.
Developed in-house by the Nautilus team.
Visit phimetrix.appOne photo replaces a spreadsheet. Every line lands in your ingredient database — vendor, quantity and price, no typing.
See each item's price history across every delivery and catch an increase the week it happens.
Recipes recalculate food cost percentage automatically as invoice prices change.
Sales, labor and costs roll into a P&L measured against your budget, every day.
Built for multi-location restaurant groups
Get started
Tell us a little about your business and what you'd like to understand better. We'll set up a free discovery call — no cost, no obligation.
Email — info@nautilus-consulting.net
Response time — within one business day
