Featured in Domain Arrivals · 2026-08-15
Firecourse Reads the Kitchen by the Numbers
A Chicago consultancy helping independent restaurants improve menus, margins, prep systems, ticket flow, pre-opening plans, and line training.
Why it surfacedFirecourse makes restaurant consulting unusually concrete: it starts with a paid day on a busy service, measures what happens on the line, and sometimes tells the operator they do not need further help. Its casework tracks changes such as removing 14 menu items and cutting Friday ticket times by more than four minutes.
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The Two-Tonne Temperature Problem
August 15’s newborn domains include a live-aboard hydrogen airship with a two-tonne lift problem, a Japanese toolbox that explains its assumptions, an advisory-by-advisory Hawaiʻi hurricane archive, and a wedding-gift game about ungrateful poultry.
This is one of 1,000 discoveries in the 2026-08-15 Domain Arrivals issue.