Food Sense’s experience in concept and product development spans over 30 exciting and diverse concepts, thousands of menu recipes and manufacturers product evaluations. Concept formats span from upscale full-service concepts to fast casual self-service concepts and commissary operations. Food Sense can provide a clear vision, solid plan and the core competencies to create a viable concept that translates into thriving reality. You can’t be a serious innovator unless and until you area ready, willing and able to seriously play. “Serious Play is not an oxymoron; it is the essence of innovation and what motivates excellence."
Many operators may not know when they are in a turn-around situation. In fact, most operators can dramatically improve performance, by applying proven business processes, analytical expertise and strategic innovation. This is Food Sense’s strength and we can help you to maximize and significantly revive sales and bottom-line profit results. You may know how well your business is doing, but do you know how well it should be doing, based on industry benchmarks and best in class operator performance. Even if you are facing the most extreme situation of financial performance or closure, Food Sense can help you. An Invitation: Ask yourself “What have I done to dramatically improve quality and performance in the last 90 days?”. If the answer is “not much”, we can help you turn-around results.
Today’s challenging marketplace is increasingly complex and competitive. Best in class operators never become complacent. Last months’ results are as good as only yesterday and cannot be banked for tomorrow. To survive long-term, you must constantly look for new ways to sell more stuff, to more people, more often for more money. Food Sense can offer a fresh perspective in helping you change with the marketplace and drive your performance to new levels. It has been said that you cannot squeeze blood out of a rock, but Food Sense consistently finds lost profits in even the most successful concepts. An Invitation: Take the satisfaction guarantee challenge. If you don’t get a minimum four-fold payback return on your investment in our fees, our services are free. It’s that Simple! Please contact us today.
Effectively investing and building a brand with high levels of execution define the leaders of this industry. You get one chance to make a first impression so if you are launching a new business, product or service, it is critical to get it right the first time. Food Sense can help you evaluate your options, develop a business plan to make your mark! If you already have a business and need to revive operations, we can help you re-define your business to become more effective in growing your concept, brand and business profits. Our experience spans over 30 concepts, with experience in developing and sourcing of thousands of products, with extensive private label success. Food Sense’s experience is diverse, across restaurant, retail and every facet of the food channel. We maintain a strong focus on emerging market and industry trends to help our clients maintain a leading edge.
At the business unit level, your staff and management are under fire, where the rubber meets the road. This is where the tone for the operation is set and should be obvious that the success of your concept depends in great part on the quality of execution and commitment of your staff. People are your best resource and great systems are enablers to reaching the business goals. The better your staff understands what it really takes to be best in class, the better they will be able to market and sell your concepts. Food Sense can help you develop best practices and proven systems that can be easily executed to help you realize your business goals. Food Sense works shoulder-to-shoulder, capable at both the business unit and corporate level across all functional departments. In many foodservice operations, there is a lack of understanding as to the emphasis on operating systems required, to enable operations to reach full sales and profit potential. Food Sense works with company’s to develop tailored solutions that work!
The Fun Part! Once, your operations and execution are performing to expectations, it’s equally important to continually nurture the brand and concept, constantly giving customers reasons to become and stay loyal. If your vision and what you are trying to sell to the customer is not crystal clear in your mind, Food Sense can help you define your vision and develop thriving reality to make your vision happen! Great Marketing is about selling more stuff, to more people, more often for more money. We buy with our eyes and perception is reality. You may have the best product in the world but if you don’t communicate the value to the consumer, through verbal & visual marketing and merchandising, the product will become wallpaper in the scope of consumer’s vision and flounder in the sea of competition. A famous entrepreneur once told me that foodservice is like the theatre business. The facility is merely the props, setting the stage to motivate the consumer audience and entice the impulsive sale. The employees are the actors and storytellers, they must know what to say and when to achieve service excellence. Finally and most importantly, THE FOOD IS THE STAR of the show! Food Sense can help you create winning marketing strategies and the kind of high-impact visual merchandising, from plate to facility, that will WOW your consumer into purchase and help you SELL MORE STUFF!
To be successful in the food industry, it is critical to utilize every resource available to help you exceed customer expectations and generate a profitable business. Technology is the one of the best enablers you can develop to help your management and operations teams succeed. Best in class operators understand this and Food Sense can help you develop affordable solutions that will return lasting results. Whether you need basic start-up systems from store operations and corporate management systems to the most sophisticated technology solutions for multi-concept national chains, Food Sense can help you find the right solution to meet your needs. Why waste valuable time and expense when we can help you speed your development and evaluation process to get better results, faster.
Being best in class takes a clear vision, determination and commitment to reaching your goals. Often company’s need a fresh perspective, an outside opinion to help bring to light opportunities to improve the way clients conduct business and go to market. Food Sense has experience working with some of the nation’s most progressive premier operators, and can help you reach your objective and business needs. It’s often said the fastest way to reach your destination, is to
take the most direct route. Food Sense has extensive experience improving
corporate business unit efficiency. We combine strategic innovation with
best practices to help businesses identify worst practices that are barriers
to effective structures. We help clients identify the key control points
of focus to successfully implement improvements and discover the most direct
path to get better results, faster. Food Sense helps corporate teams focus
at all stages, to improve efficiency and results.
Are you looking to create a new concept or assessing whether you should expand your operations and concept brands? If so, Food Sense can help you evaluate new partnerships, business strengths and core competencies to discover what it will take to be successful in your new business venture. Food Sense has extensive experience in strategic financial planning and analysis, evaluating organizational impacts of expansions, mergers and acquisitions to franchise operations. We can help you evaluate the break-even points of a new business, identify the pitfalls and success thresholds required to be successful. If you have a mature concept, we can help you understand the best practices of extending the life of the concept and what is required to sustain performance in the competitive and changing marketplace.
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