R5 Hospitality Solutions was built from operating reality — where labor constraints, union agreements, margin pressure, and execution variability are not theoretical challenges, but daily ones.
The firm exists to make labor performance visible at the system level, and to help owners and operators govern that performance without increasing labor risk or relying on individual heroics.
R5 was founded by Michael Escalante, an aerospace engineer by training and a hospitality operator by experience, who spent decades designing and leading operational excellence and labor effectiveness frameworks globally across large, complex hotel portfolios.
R5’s Labor Yield Diagnostic exists to make that experience portable — turning institutional knowledge into a repeatable, system-governed way to understand and improve labor performance without increasing operational or labor risk.