Golf and Country Clubs may call upon our consulting services to work alongside your board and management teams to build upon operational areas that are not performing to your satisfaction or to view new projects objectively with you. We understand that our role is not to disrupt current management or the operations of a club and to offer alternatives to improvements and direction for you to consider. Our services can help address concerns or to facilitate Management and Board decision by working together. We additionally understand the privacy of your club and how important our professionalism needs to be with staff and membership. 

READ OUR CASE STUDY FROM A N.Y. COUNTRY CLUB

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Jim Lopolito

Jim Lopolito, President of LHC, is lead consultant for all country club needs.

Jim has a long standing reputation with 19 years in the private club industry and has additional experience with managing in a municipality environment.

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Elliott Lewis

Course Consultant Elliot Lewis, CGCS heads our golf course management services.
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​Elliot has a long standing relationship with soil and grass, and this is only the beginning to the beautiful greens and fairway results under his tutelage. ​

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A Message From Jim Lopolito, President of LHC

Dear Board or Committee Member,
There can be many reasons why you have decided to reach out for assistance in reviewing your club operations and you want reasons why you should select LHC for this consulting role. To begin, we cultivate knowledge and improve services to your club and membership by not embarrassing employees for any lack of knowledge that may be perceived, and this is especially true when working with your manager.
 
From my early beginnings in hospitality I have always been committed to improving our industry. I have over 40 years’ experience with nineteen years in private clubs, twelve years in restaurants, and ten years theater management with stage and concert production. For 30 years’ I have overseen the development and administering of multi-million dollar budgets, further enhanced food and beverage services, coordinated golf course and pool programs, managed large scale productions, and maintained buildings, facility, and property upkeep.
 
I was a 14-year member of the Club Managers of the City of New York (CMCNY) and I received my Certified Club Manager status from The Club Managers Association of America (CMAA). For ten years I was a CMCNY board member and held various chairs of; Vice President, Secretary/Treasurer, Membership and Public Affairs Chairman, and for eight years managed all outings as Golf Chair. 
 
I was an 18-year member of the International Chefs Association Big Apple Chapter, and I received my Certified Executive Chef credentials by the International Chefs Associations, (ICA-ACF). I have also traveled with the New York Culinary Team to Frankfort, Germany for a global culinary competition.
 
My background and depth of knowledge can be compared with seeking advice from many people having diverse capabilities. From the kitchen to the front of house and accounting to property management, to everything that encompasses food service and even concert productions, I have been involved with all aspects of managing hospitality and other forms of businesses. I have additional experience with mechanics working on vehicles, motors, pulleys, plumbing and electrical connections, HVAC and other facility management needs, and I am able to support your manager in their role of preparing Request for Proposals (RFP), reviewing code violation situations, and other matters that occur with club environments.
 
If you would like to learn more about what LHC can offer you club, please reach out for a no commitment professional discussion. 

Thank you.
​Jim

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Reduce Club Expenses without reducing quality by focusing on "Expense Loss" (Copyright)

​EXPENSE LOSS
The variance between money that is currently unsystematically expensed on product, services, or equipment and the achievable amount of expense reduction that is possible or interpreted through a review and fiscally applied methods of spending behavior and forward thinking.

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​METHODS FOR A COMPREHENSIVE ANALYSIS OF YOUR CLUB

The Expense Loss review can be customized to look at all departments of a private club, not only the food and beverage department, but golf, pool, and facility operations.

Video on Expe​nse Loss

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Board Advisory Services

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Request Our Club "Expense Loss Review" Program
This review includes a detailed written report that you may use to progress your club​

Our proprietary ELR program reviews the operational aspects of your club that you want to learn more about.  From this information, we build a report that offers the well-run areas along with the deficient areas of the club. We also look at cost center variances between money that is currently unsystematically expended on product, services, or equipment, and the expenses going forward upon our review and implementation of practical methods of spending behavior.

EXAMPLE “Expense Loss Review” Program
1: Ordering Department     2: Receiving Department     3: Counter/Register Procedures     4: Dining Room/FOH Procedures     5: Cleanliness and Sanitation    6: Obstacles Hindering Performance     7: Customer/Membership Reviews     8: Management Review     9: Yield Management     10: Facilities/Building Management    11: Inventory Management     12: Kitchen/BOH Procedures    13: Menu & Recipe Costs     14: Bar Operations and Costs    15: Invoicing and A/P & A/R Review     16: Golf/Pool Operations     
​17: Prime Cost and Profitability     18: Additional Review Items Depending on Business Type

Member of Cayuga Hospitality Consulting specializing in restaurant, country club, and catering operational performance.

Ask about our CONFIDENTIAL REVIEW SERVICES
When something just doesn't seem right.

Confidential Services encompass any situation where your needs require a private and discrete assessment to situations that are questionable, not developing properly, or under suspicion by your club, restaurant, or other property.
 
My review can be conducted discretely during normal business hours, or after hours under complete closure to review business practices, accounting and invoicing processes, maintenance work, documentation procedures, security of inventory, abnormal loss of goods, or any other service needs in establishing full disclosure of the inquiry.