Strategic Product and Business Development for Chefs, Restaurateurs and Retailers. Clients include Wolfgang Puck Worldwide, Niman Ranch, Martha Stewart and Kikkoman.Services include: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 ManagementEducational 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.

Translate Wolfgang Puck’s fine dining vision, signature flavor profiles and ingredient combinations into cost-effective fast casual menu concepts for 90+ Express and Bistro units throughout United States, Canada and Japan. Menu utilizes fresh, all-natural and organic ingredients prepared to order.

Menu and Recipe Development / Product InnovationSpecialized in culinary development and profitable foodservice solutions for the restaurant and foodservice industry.

Managed the culinary operations for the 525-unit Olive Garden chain

Developed and implemented HMR program for full-service internet grocer developing recipes for production kitchens in San Francisco Bay Area, Chicago and Atlanta.