We help food and hospitality businesses succeed
Food retail and Hospitality consultant. Working with food and hospitality businesses of all shapes and sizes – specialising in food concept origination and planning, food sourcing and menu development through to operations, marketing and business development.
Services
Food Sourcing
Experience of purchasing across both fresh and ambient categories. Focusing on developing long term strategic supplier partnerships to ensure purchasing function adds value, mitigating supply chain risk and delivering cost savings.
Concept Origination and Planning
Creating food strategies for businesses of any size both retail or hospitality. Reviewing performance data and understanding your objectives will allow us to create and lead strategic projects that deliver for your business and your customer.
Food and Beverage Planning and Menu Development
Offering planning and layout optimisation for new concepts or refurb of existing businesses. We can review your current menu with our knowledge of current consumer and food trends.
About
1988 - 2002. Starting out with leading retailer - J Sainsbury gaining expertise in fresh and ambient category management and experience of holding accountability for store teams of +300 people.
2002 - 2006. Sales Manager for Europe’s busiest foodhall and one of the world’s best retailers – Selfridges and Co. Valuable insight gained in to fine food and the luxury market.
2006 - 2012. Fresh Foods Buying Manager for Harvey Nichols, Knightsbridge. Responsibility for sourcing of all fresh food categories that include bakery, meat, fish, fresh fruit and veg, cheese and dairy, delicatessen and traiteur, sandwiches to go bar. Management of 8 buyers operating on site and then accountability to deliver the fresh food offer out to all UK regional Harvey Nichols stores based in Manchester, Bristol, Edinburgh, Leeds and Ireland.
2012 - 2016. Head of Sales and Marketing for an exciting and new artisan wholesaler specialising in Italian Foods. Key involvement in a new start up with special emphasis on sales in London that grew to a UK wide operation by year 3.
2016 - Present. The Food Consultant. New business undertaken providing consultancy services to food businesses of all shapes and sizes.
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We are based in London and can work with clients nationally and internationally.