Services

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Food Consultants Group members have decades of experience with expertise in virtually every facet of the food industry. This experience, coupled with invaluable key industry contacts, can assist you in meeting your short or long term objectives.

  • AUTHOR/EDITOR/WRITERS

    • Concept/outline dev.
    • Cookbooks
    • Copywriting/editing
  • ACCOUNTING

    • Accounting systems
    • Cost segregation depreciation studies
    • Financial reports
    • Income tax
    • Internal accounting controls
    • Tax credit consulting
  • ADVERTISING

    • Ad specialties
    • Agency evaluation & search
    • Beverage menus
    • Campaign development
    • Collateral materials
    • Custom premiums
    • Food styling
    • Direct mail
    • Hispanic
    • Local market promotions
    • Media planning
    • P.O.P. materials
    • Promotions
    • Publicity
    • Restaurant merchandising
    • Trade shows
  • APPLIANCE TESTING

    • Consumer product info.
    • Product manuals
    • Testing procedures
  • COST REDUCTION

    • Business process improvement
    • Cost of goods analysis
    • Downsizing
    • Facility relocation
    • Inventory decision rules
    • Labor cost management.
    • Legal cost control
    • Manufacturing improvement
    • Ordering polices
    • Purchasing & strategic sourcing
    • Staff scheduling
    • Traffic and transportation
  • DISTRIBUTION/SUPPLY CHAIN

    • Advanced planning systems
    • Buying/purchasing
    • Decision support software
    • Facility network planning (SITELINK)
    • Logistics planning & cost reduction
    • Product flow improvement
    • Strategic sourcing/VMI
    • Warehouse facility design
    • Warehouse mngt systems (WMS)
  • EQUIPMENT FINANCING/LEASING

  • EXPERT WITNESS

    • Restaurant
  • FOOD PROCESSING MANUFACTURING

    • Automation & control systems
    • Computer integrated mfgr. (CIM)
    • Engineering prod. & documents.
    • Environmental compliance
    • Expert systems
    • HACCP
    • Process engineering
    • Stat. process control (SPC)
    • Technical R&D
    • Total quality management (TQM)
  • FRANCHISING

    • Candidate qualification & selection
    • Convention planning
    • Franchise business model development
    • Franchise marketing & sales
    • Franchise program audit & evaluation
    • Franchisee regulations
    • Franchisor/franchisee relations
    • Program development
    • UFOC evaluation
  • GENERAL MANAGEMENT

    • Business dev.
    • Business plan
    • Interim management
    • Organization management
  • HISPANIC WORKFORCE

    • Conflict resolution
    • Performance management
    • Team building
    • Diversity training
  • GOLF COURSE F & B

  • HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGEMENT

    • Compensation
    • Conflict resolution
    • Critical incident debriefing
    • Employee assistance program
    • Employee benefits
    • Employee handbooks
    • Executive contract hiring
    • Executive search
    • Incentive programs
    • Performance management
    • Personnel policies & procedures
    • Recruitment
  • INFORMATION SYSTEMS

    • Customer relations mngt. (CRM)
    • Hardware/software selection
  • INTERNATIONAL

    • Global expansion
    • Global market entry
    • Global sourcing
    • Country profile
    • Country opportunity analysis
    • Foreign market insights
    • Hispanic
    • International business plans
    • International partner search
    • Strategic business dev.
  • INTERNET COMMUNICATIONS

    • E-commerce
    • E-mail management
    • Internet marketing
    • Search engine optimization
    • Web site design
    • Web site development
    • Web site hosting
  • KITCHEN/RESIDENTIAL DESIGN

  • LEGAL SERVICES

    • Advertising compliance
    • Asset protection
    • Contracts and compliance
    • Distribution agreements
    • Entity formations (LLC,JV.INC)
    • Food law & regulations
    • Labeling compliance
    • Litigation, arbitration, mediation
    • Mergers & acquisitions
    • Supply agreements
  • MANAGEMENT DEVELOPMENT

    • Board of Directors placement
    • Cross cultural business briefing
    • Executive coaching
    • Executive compensation
    • Executive search
    • Outplacement counseling
    • Succession planning
  • MANUFACTURING OPS IMPROVEMENT

  • MARKETING

    • Branding
    • Chain promo strategies
    • Channel evaluation
    • Cross functional teams
    • Competitive intelligence
    • Concept development
    • Direct mail
    • Direct response marketing
    • Hispanic
    • Ideation
    • Innovation
    • Joint marketing alliances
    • Local store marketing
    • New market entry
    • Positioning
    • Product/menu marketing
    • Promotion
    • Redistribution
  • MARKETING RESEARCH

    • Benchmarking
    • Competitive intelligence
    • Consumer market research
    • Economic feasibility
    • Focus groups
    • Hispanic research
    • Market analysis
    • Market data development
    • Opportunity analysis
    • Trade research
    • Trend identification & analysis
  • MEETING AND EVENT PLANNING

  • MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS

    • Acquisition evaluation
    • Acquisition financing
    • Acquisition planning
    • Business finance
    • Business formation
    • Business sale
    • Contract negotiations
    • Corporate venturing
    • Divestitures
    • Due diligence
    • Funding
    • Negotiation
    • Post merger integration
    • Strategic alliances
    • Turnarounds
  • NEW PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT

    • Concept development/ideation
    • Labeling support
    • Menu management and development
    • Nutritional analysis
    • Process development
    • Product development
    • Product test and rollout
    • Recipe development
    • Taste testing
    • Technical R&D
    • Test kitchen facilities
  • NUTRITION SCIENCE

    • Allergen info
    • Clinical trials
    • Educational seminars
    • FDA/FTC science support
    • HACCP & microbiology info
    • Health implications of product
    • Healthy menu evaluation
    • Journal document delivery
    • Ingredient research reviews
    • Menu/dietetic reviews
    • NLEA/suplementfacts panels
    • Nutrient analyses
    • Probiotics/reviews
    • Technical communications
  • ON SITE FOOD SERVICE

    • Feasibility studies
    • HACCP
    • Menu reviews/alterations
    • Recruiting
    • Regulatory audits
  • ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

    • Cross functional team training
    • Human resource consulting
    • Organizational structure
  • PACKAGING

    • Materials testing
    • Packaging design/graphics
    • Sourcing
    • System design
  • PERSONAL CHEF SERVICE

    • Marketing
  • PHOTOGRAPHY

    • Advertising
    • Computer image enhancement
    • Food
    • Menus/table tents
    • Training films
  • PRIVATE EQUITY

    • Growth/expansion capital
    • Management buyout
    • Recapitalization
    • Shareholder liquidity
  • PUBLIC RELATIONS

    • Creative ideation
    • Hispanic
    • Management
    • Program dev./exec.
    • Writing and releases
  • QUALITY MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS

  • RESTAURANT DEVELOPMENT

    • Concept development
    • Design
    • Marketing development
    • Menu development
    • Operations development
    • Restaurant row development
  • RESTAURANT FACILITIES DESIGN/DEV.

    • Facility development
    • Interior
    • Kitchen
  • RESTAURANT OPERATIONS

    • Drug/narcotic invest.
    • Labor productivity
    • Management training & development
    • Menu analysis
    • Menu and concept development
    • Onsite operations
    • Operational analysis
    • POS systems
    • Site selection
    • Theft, fraud & embezzlement invest.
  • RETAIL PACKAGED GOODS

    • Brand asset development
    • Consumer promotion
    • Product planning
    • Product development/commercialization
    • Strategic product marketing
    • Tactical sales execution
  • SALES

    • Broker selection, management
    • Customer development
    • Distribution sales programs
    • End-user calls
    • Ingredient sales
    • Key account management
    • Presentations
    • Sales coverage of:
    • Full-line distributors
    • Second-tier distributors
    • National, regional chains
    • Specialized foodservice segments
    • Sales call planning systems
    • Sales increase
    • Strategic account analysis
  • SPOKESPERSON

    • On-camera, video, TV, radio
    • Cooking demos
    • Product demos
  • STRATEGIC PLANNING

    • Corporate
    • Culture building/development
    • Distribution
    • Financial
    • Information systems
    • Marketing
    • Organizational
    • SWOT analysis
    • Technical feasibility
    • Turnaround strategies
  • TRAINING

    • Bar management/merchandising
    • Building effective teams
    • Communication skills
    • Diversity
    • Inventory controls
    • Leadership
    • Performance management
    • Process instrument/controls
    • Restaurant personnel
    • Safety training
    • Sales training
    • Service standards development
  • U.S.D.A. COMMODITY PROGRAMS

    • Commodity integration
    • EPDS Preparation
    • K-12 Menus using commodities
    • Monthly reporting
    • State agreement preparation

Associate Members – Companies that Support the Food Industry

The Food Consultants Group is a professional membership organization developed as a resource to provide contact information on professionals in the food consulting field. Individuals and companies seeking assistance will make agreements directly with our member's companies, not the Food Consultants Group. See full disclaimer

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