Peter Coulter Email & Phone Number

Seattle, Washington

Seattle, Washington, United States

Spearheaded design of a $4.5M new commissary kitchen to preserve the company's “Made from Scratch” commitment to its members while overseeing the current commissary supporting over $50M+ annually in deli case, self-serve and grab and go stations sales.*Optimized the market mix of items at the current commissary to maximize the store impact on sales..

Bellevue Washington

• Lead product development for national chains including daily communications and strategies that produced over $25M annually. Direct a team of chefs for 4 premier national recognized steakhouses in achieving financial.
• Starbucks national product development and collaboration. Annually produced 8.8M units annually with over $20M in sales.
• National Kroger product development team. Northwest regional launch of chilled sandwiches, salads, wraps and assorted platters contributing to over $5M annually.
• Lead other national chain development that included Trader Joes, Amtrak, British Airlines as well as our brand Gretchen’s Shoe Box Express which contributed an additional $8M to annual sales.
• Managed restaurant menu development to optimize food cost at 28% and kitchen labor cost under 15% maximizing revenues and gross margins during challenging economic demands.
• Facilitate out-sourcing of ingredients to reduce labor.

Bellevue Washington

Greater Seattle Area

• Executed national chain collaboration and cold food development, extended shelf-life food design, health and wellness design, bread development, ingredient sourcing and design, extended shelf-life produce management.
• Lead the development of Starbuck’s first national chilled lunch program which included replicating gold standard recipes for commercial development, creating all relevant documentation, production training, ingredients.
• Formulized and lead the launch of Starbucks Hot Panini Program distributed to 4,200 stores; generating over $15M in additional channel sales.
• Instrumental in the development of Starbucks Snack Plates Generating Additional $15M in sales.
• Other key account development- Trader Joes, Sam’s Club, Target and FFG brand, Sano.

• Culinary lead in development and customer interaction to succeed in obtaining new partners increasing company sales.
• Developed, formulated and replicated recipes for the Stockpot brand, national and international customers.
• Lead operational efficiencies with 15 years as a cook-chill specialist.
• Multiple Key National Product introductions totaling over $150M in annual sales.
• Lead culinary support to Campbell’s sales team which included: demonstrating culinary advantage and versatility of Stockpot products and the methodology on how to sell Stockpot Soups products.
• Other Key account development – TGI Fridays, Cheesecake Factory, Costco, Sam’s Club, McDonald’s.

Bs, Food Service Management

As, Culinary Arts

Associate Certificate, Food Trades