Restaurants

Price will dictate menus in future, says chef Domini Kemp

Financial pressures on both restaurateurs and diners will see more and more ‘reverse engineering’ of menus, says co-owner of Lottie’s in Rathmines

Domini Kemp and Brian Montague, in Lottie's restaurant in Rathmines: price points will be set first and from that, the food choices on the menu. Picture: Fergal Phillips

Restaurateurs will increasingly have to reverse engineer their menus to account for rising costs and the financial pressures facing diners, according to Domini Kemp.

The chef and restaurateur, who has just opened Lottie’s in Rathmines in Dublin with Brian Montague, her business partner, told the Business Post that the pair had first identified the prices they wanted to charge for dishes, and then devised the menu around those prices.

“We basically reverse engineered the menu ...