Elevate Your Hospitality Experience

With over 30 years of experience in standalone restaurants and hotel operations, ranging from fast casual to fine dining and hookah operations, Restaurant Consultants of Las Vegas specializes in transforming your product and service visions into reality. Their expert guidance is essential for navigating highly competitive fields.

In 1992, while working at the Golden Nugget Hotel, I met Paymon Raouf, who operated a small 900-square-foot space selling deli goods, groceries, and a few sandwiches. I recognized in Paymon a genuine person with incredible passion and enthusiasm, so I offered him advice during my visits, hoping to help him improve his business model. By 2000, Paymon's operation had grown to 5,400 square feet, and he hired me to oversee the existing restaurant and open the country's first hookah lounge. In 2016, I founded Restaurant Consultants of Las Vegas, and Paymon's is now considered a client.

Paymon's Fresh Kitchen and Lounge has dominated the Las Vegas Review-Journal's "Best of Las Vegas" polls, winning a staggering 30 awards across eight different categories. Paymon’s was included in the Las Vegas Review Journal’s “Top 100 Restaurants” for 2024.

WHY? This is the key question that must be answered when leading a company.

After years of fielding calls from business operators seeking advice, volunteering my time to business organizations to advocate for, and to help businesses, I decided to create a consulting and business management company in 2016, that could officially assist others in the hospitality industry. Since childhood, I have had a penchant for helping others, and that is my WHY.

Since its inception, Restaurant Consultants of Las Vegas (RCLV) has focused most of the attention on a handful of companies, as managing growth and implementing various concepts effectively is very time consuming, and we understand how essential it is to make sure that enough time and effort are available to existing clients. We focus on small to medium-sized projects to give you the attention that you deserve. We pride ourselves on assisting independent operators and we are active in addressing lawmakers and public policy that affects small business owners.

Every step of every process we ask WHY. We understand that this is the most essential question in meeting all goals and objectives. This is the burning question that must be answered to connect with the psyche of the consumer. My favorite quote from Simon Sinek’s book - Start with Why. “It’s worth repeating: people don’t buy WHAT you do, they buy WHY you do it.”