Corporate consulting services

Our Corporate Culinary Consulting Services

The Culinarian Chefs Academy through its corporate business division The Culinarian Consultants’ offers a full range of Expert Advisory Chefs Services to support Company Sales and Marketing functions by developing internal Culinary Capabilities with professional kitchen, cuisine and product knowledge in the execution of their respective strategies, whilst building credibility and relevance for Food in the Out-Of-Home (OOH) industry and the Retail space through Associations, Networking, Commercial activations and access to the professional hospitality community.

TCC also works hand in hand with sales and marketing teams by conducting product demonstrations and application workshops (culinary training) using varied techniques, whether virtually or at the customer locations to drive sales and create brand loyalty.

Furthermore, we have the know-how to help increase your sales while reducing your costs. We have lived life in the kitchen and understand what it takes to run a successful restaurant. Additionally, our chefs study the local and global food scene and know what’s on trend. As a result, our unique mindset gives us an understanding of the operations side of food business to help you succeed and operate efficiently
We pride ourselves in having worked with some of the World and South Africa’s top food production companies, from initial ideation to brand execution. Our team of vibrantly talented and well enthusiastically experienced culinary consultants are always available on call 24/7 as we strive to live up to our core business values of making sure that we understand your language and bring excitement into your concepts.

Culinary Association and Accreditations

Roles & Responsibilities of Corporate Culinary Consultants

Also known as product development or food innovation chefs, research chefs are essential to the F&B industry. We formulate and test new products and supplies for food and beverage based businesses. Therefore, our duties involve generating new recipes that look and taste great, and developing new formulas when needed. Even more, understand in sales, marketing and technical training.
We develop new products by conducting consumer testing, observing market trends, and modifying and using the power of your brand products in recipes. Administrating consumer focus group testing is a very important responsibility. We find better ways to retain the flavor, freshness, consistency and nutritional content of mass-produced, packaged food products.
Additionally, we act as a support structure to sales and marketing teams on customer engagements and actively offer continuous in training and development for back of house staff. We are constantly learning new information on how to help create the next big consumer hit.

Chef’s working together to prepare multiple dishes ready for service. Colour, horizontal with some copy space. Photographed in a restaurant on the island of Møn in Denmark.

What to expect from our research and development chefs

• Culinary Products Tasting, Research, Development and Analysis.
• Recipe Compositions, Development and Standardisation.
• Chef Demonstrations, Event Brand Activations and Launches.
• HACCP Analysis , Kitchen Safety Audits and Staff Training
• Advisory Chef Services, Sales and Marketing Field Support
• Menu Profitability Analysis and Optimization
• Menu Engineering, Development & Pricing
• Culinary Staff Training and Development
• Culinary Videos, Food Styling and Photography