Chef Andrew Hunter

Product Development for Restaurants • Develop signature, branded menu concepts for quick-serve, fast casual and casual dining restaurant groups. • Create and implement core menu strategies featuring signature, regional and seasonal concepts. Product Development for Retail • Translate chef-based foodservice and consumer recipes into formulas for manufacturing that ensure fine dining quality in industrial quantities. • Network with brokers and buyers to place refrigerated and frozen chef-inspired foods in the retail marketplace. Chef Advocacy • Represent the culinary integrity of high-profile fine dining chefs to ensure best of class menus, flavor profiles and ingredients in the casual dining and retail marketplaces. • Challenge conventional protocols in manufacturing to realize a new caliber of food products in the casual dining and retail marketplaces. Restaurant Management Systems • Theoretical and Actual Food Costing Programs • Recipe Writing Strategies, Logistics and Mentoring • Ingredient Sourcing, Cross-Utilization Strategies and Supply Chain Management Educational Programs • Present educational programs for students at culinary schools and universities, and for colleagues at professional conferences and industry events. Spokesperson • Spokesperson to the industry for new food product launches and chef-to-chef marketing campaigns.