Inside OPTIMA.
We build the operational blueprints that make cafés thrive.
OPTIMA - café consultancy operates as a modern advisory firm, combining deep industry logistics with hands-on technical coffee expertise. Whether you are launching a first location or scaling an international chain, our structured approach gives you direct access to executive-level consulting, tailored exactly to your market.
Transforming Ideas into Reality
Our Founder
& Lead Consultant
Lukas Slovacek
Founder & Lead Advisor
With over 15 years of high-volume international procurement, distribution, and multi-unit hospitality operations management across the United Kingdom and Europe, our founder brings institutional-grade expertise to independent café owners and food entrepreneurs.
Having climbed the ranks of the competitive UK hospitality sector, the founder's background spans the full spectrum of high-volume beverage and fast-casual models:
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Corporate Coffee & Café Scale: Managed high-volume operations for global coffee shop giant in London, mastering the precise layout design, speed-of-service metrics, and team-building frameworks required to run a world-class coffee program.
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Specialty Food & Fast Casual: Directed complex operational workflows for market leaders in multinational sweet pastry and global fast food pizza businesses in UK, embedding strict systems for product consistency, labor scheduling, and high-throughput kitchen ergonomics.
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Startup & Beverage Concept Launching: Personally built, set up, and managed operations for a Bubble Tea shop in London and unique coffee shop concept in Czechia, giving them firsthand, ground-level expertise in launching trending beverage brands from scratch.
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Logistics & Margin Protection: Backed by years of elite experience in international procurement and distribution center management, our founder looks at menus through a lens of supply-chain efficiency. He specialize in locking down vendor contracts, setting tight inventory controls, and engineering menus to maximize profitability.
Through our consultation services, this decade and a half of global corporate experience is distilled into actionable, stress-tested strategies for your cafe business.
Our Track Record
+82%
Impulse Sales
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Boosted point-of-sale revenue by 82% within 30 days via strategic counter layout.
-20%
Food Waste
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Reduced waste by 20% through precise portion and inventory control frameworks.
£2k
Stock Control
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Streamlined multi-unit distribution to protect cash flow and minimize storage costs by £2000 per unit.
45 days
Concept to Launch
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Optimized a brand-new café concept from initial layout blueprints to the official opening day in just 45 days.
-20s
Service Speed
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Minimized transaction and fulfillment times by 20 seconds per order through data-driven customer journey analysis and optimized team deployment.