We Offer a

Full menu of F&B consulting services.

From innovation to implementation, and everything in between, we’ve got your food & beverage business covered.

Current-State Diagnostic

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Get a 360' analysis of your brands' gaps, equities and strengths in your marketplace.

Market Foresight Opportunity

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Foresee where your brand can "win" in the future market landscape, mapping evolving competitors, technologies, channels, and consumer behaviors.

Restaurant Creation / Innovation

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Talk to us about your vision, and we will design it with you - culinary, operations, brand and design.

Product Creation / Innovation

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Talk to us about your vision, and we will design it with you - product, brand, formulation and co-manufacturing.

Financial Modeling

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Model your business to predict future revenue, EBITDA, and unit growth.

Acquisition Due Diligence

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Identify the opportunities and barriers to growth, scale, and efficiency for potential acquisitions.

Financial and PMIX Analysis

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Uncover the truth about how each menu item drives revenue and cost. Analyze attachment, complexity, food cost, and ingredient utilization.

Brand Strategy

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See precisely where and how your brand can win in the marketplace - with a team of specialists in food & beverage.

Insights & Personas

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Work with a team dedicated to food & beverage, to pinpoint a brand identity that connects your product with your customers.

Visual Identity

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Tell the story of your brand and product through impactful visuals, including logo, naming, palette, typography and imagery.

Merchandising & Food Theater

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Engage your customers in the making of your menu, and get full credit for your food and beverage.

Experience Design

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Innovate with every touchpoint and all five senses, to optimize customers' journey to purchase.

Plateware & Packaging

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Find the optimal systems to present your food, for your customer, your operations, and your business.

Menu Design

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Increase check value by making your menu effortless to understand, and easy to order with.

Marketplace Research & Benchmarking

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Immerse hands-on with experienced consultants, to benchmark your brand for offering, pricing, and positioning.

Sales & PMIX Analysis

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Uncover growth opportunities by using sales data to analyze your menu's strengths, weaknesses, and gaps.

Menu Engineering

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Re-engineer your menu for lower operational lift, higher profit margin, and delicious execution every time.

Menu/LTO Concepts

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Innovate your menu or LTO program to be more desirable, more streamlined, and more profitable.

Recipe & Product Development

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Transform your execution through precision engineering of prep and build recipes, supply chain, and make vs. buy decisions

Ingredient & Vendor Sourcing

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Get the best out of your suppliers today, and discover the best new suppliers for tomorrow. Streamline your pantry, commercialize new items, or uplevel your execution.

Catering Strategy

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Solve the catering puzzle to unlock extra value from your menu. Innvate to create more value, with less.

Marketplace Research & Benchmarking

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Immerse in your market with a team of product experts to benchmark your brand for product, pricing, positioning, and packaging.

Portfolio Assessment

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Discover where the juice is worth the squeeze across the portfolio - how does each SKU contribute to cost, and to revenue.

Recipe & Product Development

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Precision-engineer your product through targeted food science backed by culinary problem solving.

Ingredient & Vendor Sourcing

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Leverage your existing supply chain or identify new ingredient solutions to deliver your concept at scale.

Consumer Validation

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See first hand how consumers respond to product concepts, formulations, and execution.

Concept Ideation

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Innovate future product concepts to be more desirable, more feasible, and more profitable.

Operational Audit

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Decode the blockers and drivers in your Culinary Operations, with a deep-dive analysis of processes, systems, staff and materials.

Kitchen Design

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Layout your kitchen, equipment and stations to save time, stress, and money. Food & Beverage innovation should cost you less, not more.

Operating Materials Creation

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Deploy a robust set of line-level and training materials, to execute consistently at scale. Designed by chef consultants who've seen it all.

Training & Launch Support

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Lean on your consultants during opening week to smooth out the wrinkles and troubleshoot niggles.

Co-manufacturer Search

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Detangle the complex network of co-manufacturing to identify the right partners for your product at the right volumes.

Product Commercialization

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Translate your benchtop prototype to the manufacturing line, carrying concept through to reality.
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Our 360° Process

  • Start with questions.

    Our work is not complete until your solutions are operational and scalable. Our role as food & beverage consultants is to arm you with the tools and materials you need to succeed today, tomorrow and beyond.

  • Inspire change that counts.

    As culinary consultants, we bring a 360° perspective to your organization, uncovering solutions that work equally for your balance sheet, brand, people, and guests. From a range of possibilities, we pinpoint the path from insight to action.

  • Ideas you can work with.

    By understanding your business first, we generate ideas that work beyond paper. With you as our creative partners, our ideas bridge consumer, brand, and operational realities. Combine your knowledge of your business with the industry knowledge only achieved through decades of culinary consulting.

  • Turn vision into reality.

    We translate ideas into experiences that drive your brand forward. We guide your teams and partners on the journey from ideation to implementation, and prototype to product.

  • Deliver results, at scale.

    Our work is not complete until your solutions are operational and scalable. We arm you with the tools and materials you need to succeed today, tomorrow and beyond. You should expect nothing less from a food and beverage consulting firm.

You made us everything we are

You taught us everything we know.

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Full Service

Hospitality

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Non-Commercial

Retail

QSR & Fast Casual

Startups

We have the privilege of engaging clients across all corners of the F&B industry. We’ve supported early startup concepts and partnered with established brands from quick-service chains to full-service restaurants. We’ve taken our culinary expertise and applied it to hospitality and entertainment brands as well as non-commercial foodservice operators. And we’ve helped CPG businesses achieve new successes in the retail sector. We couldn’t be more proud of the company we keep. 

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