Consultation

Your business, seasoned to taste.

Menu development, recipe work, kitchen systems, and food business strategy from a Michelin-trained chef. For restaurants, food brands, home cooks, and anyone building something food-related. Malta-based, available for select projects.

  • Restaurant or food business that needs a second set of eyes
  • Recipe, menu, or product that isn’t quite working yet
  • Launching something new and want to lower the risk
  • Content, brand, or kitchen project that needs food expertise
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Stephen plating a dish in the kitchen

Analyse

Understand your operation, your clients, and your competition, so your concept is built on something real.

Optimise

Fix the workflow and pricing issues that are quietly eating your profit.

Innovate

Stay ahead of where food and consumer habits are heading, instead of reacting to it later.

Where the experience gets used

Years training in Michelin kitchens, founding a culinary school, and consulting since, across restaurants, food brands, and individual projects. A few of the shapes this work usually takes:

Concept & development

  • A strong foundation for a new venture, product, or concept shift
  • Beyond the standard restaurant model: delivery, culinary education, food brands, content-driven food businesses
  • Folding food service into a business that doesn’t have one yet
  • A strategy built to last, not just launch well

Recipe & menu development

  • Menu, recipe, and product development
  • Delivery, catering, and packaged product menus
  • Dietary and allergen-specific recipe work
  • Recipe testing and rollout, with training if a team’s involved

Operational efficiency

  • Kitchen and front-of-house training
  • Kitchen and service workflow fixes
  • Health and safety standards, done properly
  • Equipment selection and layout

Financial efficiency

  • Finding revenue streams you’re not using yet
  • Menu or product design that brings people back more often
  • Pricing and packaging that actually drives sales
  • Food costing and margin strategy
Stephen reviewing recipe references at his desk

How does this work?

01

Schedule a free call

We talk through what you need and where I can actually move the needle.

02

Get a clear game plan

A concrete plan for the problems we found. I’ll guide you through it, or handle the implementation myself.

03

Watch it pay off

A menu, kitchen, or project that runs the way it was supposed to from the start.

What it costs

Step one

Introductory call

We define what you need and the challenges you’re facing, and figure out if this is a fit.

Free

Ongoing

Strategy implementation

I work alongside you until what we planned is actually running.

€40 / hour

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Rate and scope confirmed case by case, depending on what the project needs. Drop me an email and we’ll go from there.