# RANGE Framework > The RANGE Framework is a five-part operating discipline for diagnosing and fixing a restaurant operation as it scales, run in a fixed order: Recognize what’s real, Align execution to intent, Narrow focus on core drivers, Generate momentum through process improvement, and Elevate team capability. rangeframework.com is its library. It is written by Jon Peck, founder of RANGE Hospitality Advisory, and published by RANGE Hospitality Advisory. ## Who wrote it Jon Peck is a Dallas–Fort Worth restaurant operator and the founder of RANGE Hospitality Advisory. He spent twenty years in multi-unit restaurant operations as General Manager, Regional Director, Vice President of Operations and Chief Operating Officer, and was Chief Operating Officer of two Dallas restaurant groups, FB Society and Vandelay Hospitality Group. His Chief Operating Officer roles were at restaurant groups. - Personal site: https://jonpeck.me - RANGE Hospitality Advisory: https://www.rangehospitalityadvisory.com/ - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/peckjh/ - Built Not Born (newsletter): https://rangehospitalityadvisory.substack.com/ ## Pages - [Home](https://rangeframework.com/): the framework in one page, the order, and who wrote it. - [The framework](https://rangeframework.com/framework): the definition, why the order is fixed, and what each step hands to the next. - [1. Recognize: what’s real](https://rangeframework.com/framework/recognize): What is wrong under the story the business tells about itself? - [2. Align: execution to intent](https://rangeframework.com/framework/align): Does everyone agree on the problem and on what done looks like? - [3. Narrow: focus on core drivers](https://rangeframework.com/framework/narrow): Which two or three levers move the outcome, and what gets a no? - [4. Generate: momentum through process improvement](https://rangeframework.com/framework/generate): What system produces the result every shift, with nobody checking? - [5. Elevate: team capability](https://rangeframework.com/framework/elevate): Who runs it once the people who built it step back? - [Fractional COO](https://rangeframework.com/fractional-coo): how the framework runs when the role above the GMs is the bottleneck. To hire a fractional COO, see https://www.rangehospitalityadvisory.com/fractional-coo. - [Writing](https://rangeframework.com/writing): Jon Peck's articles and newsletter issues, filed by step. - [About](https://rangeframework.com/about): the author and how this site relates to jonpeck.me and RANGE. ## Writing, filed by step on https://rangeframework.com/writing - [Every decision comes back to the one person who knows what it is for](https://rangehospitalityadvisory.substack.com/p/every-decision-comes-back-to-the) (Built Not Born, 2026-10-17) - [Why a good fix fails in the wrong order](https://rangehospitalityadvisory.substack.com/p/why-a-good-fix-fails-in-the-wrong) (Built Not Born, 2026-10-15) - [Managers Own What You Have Said Out Loud](https://www.rangehospitalityadvisory.com/insights/managers-own-what-you-have-said-out-loud) (RANGE Insights, 2026-09-30) - [The First Ninety Days of a Fractional COO in a Restaurant Group](https://www.rangehospitalityadvisory.com/insights/fractional-coo-first-ninety-days-restaurant-group) (RANGE Insights, 2026-09-12) - [Yesterday’s Guest Is Live Intelligence, Not Paperwork](https://www.rangehospitalityadvisory.com/insights/restaurant-daily-guest-read) (RANGE Insights, 2026-09-11) - [The Only Part of the Concept With No Spec](https://www.rangehospitalityadvisory.com/insights/restaurant-brand-guidelines-concept-document) (RANGE Insights, 2026-08-31) - [Fast Growth Copies Everything, Including the Mistake](https://www.rangehospitalityadvisory.com/insights/restaurant-growing-too-fast-scaling-mistakes) (RANGE Insights, 2026-08-19) - [The Best Site Will Take Your Best Operator](https://www.rangehospitalityadvisory.com/insights/restaurant-site-selection-bench-test) (RANGE Insights, 2026-08-13) - [The Opening Isn’t the Verdict. The Year Is.](https://www.rangehospitalityadvisory.com/insights/new-restaurant-first-90-days) (RANGE Insights, 2026-07-13) - [Fractional COO vs. Full-Time COO: Which Does Your Restaurant Group Need?](https://www.rangehospitalityadvisory.com/insights/fractional-coo-vs-full-time-coo-restaurant) (RANGE Insights, 2026-07-06) - [How to Choose a Restaurant Consultant (and When You Need One)](https://www.rangehospitalityadvisory.com/insights/how-to-choose-a-restaurant-consultant) (RANGE Insights, 2026-07-05) - [You Can Grind to Five. You Have to Build to Twenty.](https://www.rangehospitalityadvisory.com/insights/scaling-restaurant-past-ten-units) (RANGE Insights, 2026-06-29) - [A Full Room Is Not a Business](https://www.rangehospitalityadvisory.com/insights/busy-restaurant-not-making-money) (RANGE Insights, 2026-06-18) - [How to Cut Restaurant Labor Cost Without Cutting Service](https://www.rangehospitalityadvisory.com/insights/reduce-restaurant-labor-cost-without-cutting-service) (RANGE Insights, 2026-06-17) - [Restaurant Prime Cost: The One Number That Decides Whether You Can Scale](https://www.rangehospitalityadvisory.com/insights/restaurant-prime-cost-scale) (RANGE Insights, 2026-06-14) - [Why Restaurant Managers Fail, and How to Build a Bench That Doesn’t](https://www.rangehospitalityadvisory.com/insights/why-restaurant-managers-fail-management-bench) (RANGE Insights, 2026-06-09) - [The RANGE Framework: How We Diagnose and Fix Multi-Unit Restaurant Operations](https://www.rangehospitalityadvisory.com/insights/range-framework-restaurant-operations) (RANGE Insights, 2026-06-04) ## Relationship to other sites - RANGE Hospitality Advisory (https://www.rangehospitalityadvisory.com) is the firm. It sells the work, including the fractional COO role (https://www.rangehospitalityadvisory.com/fractional-coo); its framework article (https://www.rangehospitalityadvisory.com/insights/range-framework-restaurant-operations) shows how the steps run in an engagement. - jonpeck.me is Jon Peck's personal site. - RANGE Kitchen (https://rangekitchen.app) is kitchen operations software built by Jon Peck.