Services

 

 

Don't let market opportunities pass you by!  Keep up to date with current food/nutrition trends and use them to your advantage to create a loyal customer base.  Or, decrease operational costs with expert project management.

 

Retailers

Food Service Companies

Manufacturers/Processors

 

 

Market Planning: situation analysis, market research, and recommendations for corporate or category strategies.

 

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Have you figured out how to leverage market trends like organic  and functional foods?  Or, the struggle between convenience and the desire families have to eat nutritious meals together?    These trends (and others) are potential MAJOR revenue-generators for companies!

 

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Are you a new restaurant wishing to expand your product line or customer base?  Where do you start? 

 

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Have you always wanted a cost-benefit analysis for that new concept you've been considering?

 

Program Development: cross-category promotion of items meeting the purchasing needs of a particular market segment.

 

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Are you a retail food outlet desiring to showcase certain products, such as those which support heart-health?  A comprehensive program might tie together featured products with promotional pricing, new menu items for the in-store bakery, advertising, POS signage/shelf tags, staff training, food demos, consumer collateral with educational information and suggested menus/recipes, and website content.

 

Project Management: coordinate in-house and/or external resources, with full documentation and reporting of deliverables, interim milestones, and project status.

 

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Are you a Nutrition Services Director for a hospital or LTC facility requiring a project manager to coordinate implementation of your new dietary/menu system?  And, then train your staff? 

 

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Do you work in school food service and need help designing or analyzing menus?  Do you have a process to assure the kids with food allergies are not served their "trigger" foods?

 

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Would you like a ServSafe® instructor to train your staff in food safety and sanitation?  

 

 

  How will you

  respond?  How will

  your competitors

  respond?

 

  Increased away-

  from-home dining,

  coupled with a

  desire for healthy

  meals.   

 

   Functional or 

  fortified foods. 

  What about GMOs?
 

   Do you have a

  consumer-oriented

  food safety plan? 

 

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In foodservice, your “customers” are varied – and  have different needs.

 

 Have you defined all your customer segments?   Do you know what each wants?

     

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