Hospitality

Haley Moore

All the benefits of a Beverage Director without the overhead.

Your beverage program is a huge revenue generator for your establishment. It can literally make or break your business. Today, the need for finance-driven beverage professionals is essential. Acquire was born to meet all of your beverage needs by removing the pressure of hiring a full-time, skilled Beverage Director, which is a commodity that is financially out of reach for most. We promise to be a service that pays for itself, allowing you to hire great service-oriented talent to run your floors rather than searching for a ‘beverage-centric’ person who also understands how to make your business money.

Haley Moore spent 15 years as a sommelier and beverage director in San Francisco. She currently runs the beverage program at Empress by Boon and wrote the core wine list for all nine Piatti locations nationwide. She utilizes her enormous buying power to negotiate deep deals that may not be available to a single stand-alone restaurant.

Beverage & Sommelier Services

  • Profitability driven beverage program design

  • Staff development & training in service and wine education

  • Michelin level wine program development

Cellar Management & Design

  • Let us help optimize your space and create efficiencies that will benefit you in service.

Personalized Wine Courses

  • Staff training designed to meet your team where they are.

Restaurant Wine List & Inventory Management

  • Allow us to implement systems and structure aimed at driving sales and increasing profitability.

Personal Sommelier Services

  • Let our knowledge work for you. Hiring our team gives you the benefits of a Beverage Director without the overhead.

Megan Hanoian

Megan Hanoian leverages over 20 years' experience in hands on restaurant operations to diagnose problems and implement best systems and practices. Working as Director of Operation and General Manager has afforded her the deep understanding day-to-day operational struggles. After analyzing current practices, she offers a streamlined operational guide that is guaranteed get you out of the daily struggles, so you can stay focused on long-term success. Hanoian has a background in finance and takes her finance-driven approach into all that she does. Allow her to streamline your processes and drive profits in a simple and easy to use way.

Restaurant Start Up Services

  • Selection of restaurant vendors

  • Menu and Back of the House culinary development

  • Selection of POS System

  • Financial costs support

  • Front of the house development and training

  • Development of policy and procedures

  • Marketing and program development

Operational Structure

  • We clearly define all processes and procedures to maximize profitability, including implementation and training of management.

Profit Tune-up

  • Allow us to deep dive into Profit & Loss Statements, identifying: waste, costs and missed profit opportunities. Review of cash handling and procedures and PCI compliance included.

Problem Solving & Training

  • Workshops for managers and owners allows us to ensure that all management are operating in a way that promotes staff morale. Allow us to provide solutions to current issues, while protecting the brand and aiding in further development of company culture.

HR & Legal Compliance

  • The world of restaurants has become more litigious than ever. Allow us to implement the necessary policies to keep you covered and compliant, reducing your personal risk.

  • “Haley is one of the hardest working people I’ve ever had the honor to work with. She also just happens to have an incredible work ethic and oh, yeah, also happens to know more than anyone else about wine and beverage. Also, she achieved the rare feat of getting people interested in wine - when even they didn’t know they had the interest to start with. She was able to change the face of our group - not an easy thing for one person to do over so many restaurants.”

    — Doug Washington, Restauranteur & Restaurant Designer

  • “Haley is someone who looks at the whole picture. She is a restaurant person before she is a beverage person. She sees that it is a business; she has respect for the financial side of things. We continued to pay her a full time salary [once she became a consultant] because of the tremendous value she adds.”unch a business

    — Steven Rosenthal, Owner at Town Hall, Salt House, Anchor & Hope, Jersey & La Capra

  • “Haley has been an integral part of the opening and the continued operation of Empress by Boon. Her attention to detail and vast knowledge of the beverage industry has kept us on a profitable path and garnered a Wine Spectator Award of Excellence our first year! We could not have the success we our enjoying if it were not for Haley’s expertise and ability to understand our guests and their needs. Her calm and level approach to training, has garnered her the admiration and respect of our staff. And from ownership and management standpoint, she is a true pleasure to work alongside.”

    Quote Sou— James Minch, Restauranteur & Restaurant Designer

  • “The more distance I've had from my time at Anchor, and the more wine directors I've worked with, has really given me so much more of an appreciation for how amazing Haley is at what she does and for what a great teacher she is.”

    — Anna Brown, Former Manager at Anchor & Hope