What We Offer: Solutions

Our Services:

Menus & Cuisine

• Menu development and enhancement—with emphasis on local products local flavor
     • Signature dishes featuring customized
     • Sauces, salsas, and spices
     • Ethnic accents: Latin American / Caribbean, Pacific Rim, Regional Italian, Nuevo Latino, Southwestern
• Seafood specialties utilizing sustainable seafood
• Bar, small plates, and tapas menus
• Menu review and refreshment—focusing on
     • food presentation, taste, freshness, balance, nutrition
• Procedures for food cost analysis and inventory control

Kitchen

• Food Service: establishing efficiency, safety, sanitation and productivity in the kitchen
• Training staff in techniques of cooking: roasting, grilling, broiling, sautéing, frying, poaching, cutting, plating and serving
• Setting up line of cooking and serving to maximize production of hot food with speed and facility
• Establishing procedures for safe food handling
• Training kitchen personnel in safe and proper use of machinery and chemicals, following the guidelines of OSHA
• Training kitchen personnel in basic sanitation and safety,in Spanish or English

Assistance in Restaurant Openings

• Working with the chef to access & evaluate new equipment
• Planning traffic flow and design kitchen for efficiency
• Collaborating on menu design and development; new product sourcing to enhance menu variety and value
• Establish inventory controls and food cost analysis to maximize return on investment
• Working with the chef to establish kitchen procedures for:
     • purchasing receiving, storing of products
     • insuring appropriate rotation of products in refrigerators, freezers, reach-ins, and storage rooms
     • insuring that products are stored at appropriate temperatures and humidity level

Front of the House

• Customer service: establishing house standards of exemplary service to promote customer satisfaction and repeat business
• Teaching motivational team building classes for front of the house staff and managers, emphasisizing development of communication skills and increasing excellence in customer service
• Establishing effective communication between management, dining room staff and kitchen crew; developing a teamwork attitude to run the restaurant more efficiently and harmoniously
• Food Photography, Food Styling, Editorial Writing