Your Partner in Menu Development, Profitability, and Training
We Offer Food & Beverage Menu Development
We Teach Menu Development
Another question we hear a lot: How can I inject some innovation into my current menu? We can help you implement a proven product development process into your current structure, capitalizing on what you already do best, and improving tactics and communication to drive sales to new heights.
We Develop Menus to Drive Sales
Creating a pipeline of new ideas to launch throughout the year is absolutely essential to the success of any food concept. Exceptional performance is carefully planned, and seasonal new product launches can positively impact the internal culture of food and beverage retailers.
We Elevate Quality & Profitability
A common question we hear: Where should I even start? Whether you are starting with no idea, or too many ideas, we help you ask the right questions, analyze the important trends and data, and apply your brand's unique style to curate an appetizing, replicable, and profitable menu.
6-Step Product Development Process
1. Define
2. Explore
2. Explore
We ask a lot of questions and agree on a clear definition of success. Starting with key stakeholders that share financial and operational targets, we kick off projects with momentum.
2. Explore
2. Explore
2. Explore
Blue sky thinking leads to brilliant discoveries. Partnering with chefs, marketing organizations, operations, equipment manufacturers, distributors, and suppliers, we explore and uncover great ideas together.
3. Design
2. Explore
4. Test & Refine
We prioritize key metrics and use all the research we've conducted to design the products, procedures, smallwares, equipment, layout, and communication tools. We create big, easy-to-understand targets and do all the heavy lifting here.
4. Test & Refine
4. Test & Refine
4. Test & Refine
Robust tests ensure all challenges are identified, and everything goes as planned. A quick refinement step is a great way to make sure all your goals are being met, and that your organization is ready for launch.
5. Launch
4. Test & Refine
6. Measure
The countdown is over, and success is ahead. We help rollout awesome new products and platforms, including internal and external communication tools. We ease the stress of new product launches, and create repeatable processes along the way.
6. Measure
4. Test & Refine
6. Measure
Key metrics, operational and consumer feedback, clear communications, a well-documented process and results are measured and continuously improved. We provide all the tools you need to sustain momentum.
Menu Item Profitability
Profitability Analysis
Every item should earn it's way onto your menu, and every menu item should have a purpose. We help you align customer needs, operational needs, and profitability targets.
Recipe Calculations
Details, details, details... We take on the tedious task of breaking out the cost per ounce or portion of every single ingredient, and help you visualize the cost of each recipe.
Minimize Waste
The only way to understand the true cost of each menu item is to factor in the true waste as well. We find opportunities to offer the freshest products while minimizing waste and lowering food costs.
Maximize Margins
We help you reach your gross profit goals by strategically considering retail pricing, waste, sales, and growth targets.
Foodservice Training Support
CROSS-FUNCTIONAL COMMUNICATIONS:
Team members need to know what, when, where, how, and why. We provide structured tools for cascading information.
VISUAL JOB AIDS:
Simple. Clear. Concise. Multilingual. Pictures. Food Forward Thinking provides job aids for easy training and consistent execution.
OPERATIONS MANUALS:
Resources like equipment and training manuals, how-to guides, log books and projections... We provide printed and online materials.
TRAINING COURSES:
Food Forward Thinking can turn dry, uninteresting manuals into an engaging instructional course for in-person or online.
IDEA TO TABLE:
You have ideas share, actions to complete, and timelines to meet. We help you craft consistent and streamlined internal communications.