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**﻿﻿​We help entrepreneurs succeed in the food industry**
## What We Do
**Our services cover all aspects of both retail and wholesale food operations.
We help clients all over the country start new food-related businesses and turn around food operations that are experiencing challenging issues. We have a track record of success, and invite you to contact us about your food business.**
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| Services﻿Food Startup Help is a team of highly experienced food industry professionals with an extensive network of quality resources to support every challenge arising in food related operations.We understand what it takes to be successful in an extremely competitive and risky field where key missteps can quickly lead to failure, even for the most well-intentioned entrepreneurs who have great products to sell.Our combination of services covers every issue a food business operator will face. Fully knowing the concerns of food service industry operators, we at Food Startup Help take pride in producing timely results.​  | Meet The Team﻿Food Startup Help was formed by colleagues from the Institute of Culinary Education in NYC to help graduates and countless others that need guidance opening or expanding their food businesses.  We have formed an expert team that can work with you to meet your goals.     Entrepreneur ToolsLaunching a food product successfully can be a lengthy and complicated process. Minimize the financial risk by letting the experienced team of chefs at Food Startup Help guide you through this challenging and rewarding process using decades of experience and exclusive knowledge and products.  | Testimonials﻿Food Startup Help has a track record of successfully helping clients in various stages of the food industry, and in multiple geographic markets.​We customize a proposal for how our team members can help you with your specific challenges, and then we work with you to complete each phase of your project and set you on the path to success.  |
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## **SERVICES**
## ﻿Food Startup Help is a team of highly experienced food industry professionals with an extensive network of quality resources to support every challenge arising in food related operations. We understand what it takes to be successful in an extremely competitive and risky field where key missteps can quickly lead to failure, even for the most well-intentioned entrepreneurs who may even have great products to sell. Our combination of services covers every issue a food business operator will face. Fully knowing the concerns of food service industry operators, we at Food Startup Help take pride in producing timely results.
| Picture  Services for Bakery and Restaurant Operations﻿​﻿​﻿The Food Startup Help team will work with you to conceptualize a retail or wholesale bakery or restaurant, improve ongoing operational efficiency, or help you through expansion phases. Whatever stage you are at with your business, we will work together to define how our industry expert team can help you succeed.​  | Picture   Services for Food Product Development and Bringing a Food Product to MarketDo you have an idea for a food product? ​Navigating the world of contracts, nutritional labeling, package design, incubator kitchens, co packers, storage and shipping, distributors, retail outlets, mark ups, etc. is not for the faint of heart.Work with the experienced team at Food Startup Help to help you bring a product to market successfully in the challenging food industry.  | Picture  ​Kitchen Design Services​Food Startup Help guides you through the process to select equipment for your operation. We understand the technical needs of your operation, and can interface with vendors as you make these difficult and expensive decisions.​  | Picture  Culinary Curriculum and Online Course Creation​Are you opening a cooking or baking school?  We have worked with recreational schools as well as community college curriculum, nationally and internationally, from start to finish.  |
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## **Bakery and Restaurant ​Operations**
## Food Service Operations
**The Food Startup Help team will work with you to conceptualize a retail or wholesale bakery or restaurant, improve ongoing operational efficiency, or help you through expansion phases of your existing business. We will work with you to understand your goals, budget and other constraints or challenges, and define how our industry expert team can help you succeed.**
​Work with the experienced team of chefs at Food Startup Help to help you with:
* Design your retail or wholesale bakery or restaurant operation through every step from conception through opening
* Evaluate opportunities for growth such as expanding wholesale production, opening additional locations, franchising or creating new product lines
* Address challenges in between start up and expansion in terms of operational improvement, production efficiency, certifications, and staff training, turnover or recruitment
* Assistance with lessons and preparations for NYC Food Protection Course
* Assistance with studying, preparations and proctoring the exams for ServSafe Food Handler's, ServSafe Alcohol, ServSafe Allergens and ServSafe Managerial
**The Food Startup Help team of chefs can work with you to evaluate your project costs and viability:**
* Write a Business Plan for company guidance
* Develop a complete Capital Budget of start up costs
* Create 3-Year Projected Profit & Loss Statements
* Evaluate finance options to fund your business
* Write a pitch deck to help you approach investors
**Create a USP to attract customers:**
* Define a Unique Selling Proposition to help drive sales to your establishment
* Create menus, descriptions and establish prices
* Develop recipes from scratch or additional SKU R&D
* Source ingredients and identify wholesale vendors
* Analyze food costs, portion sizes and competition
* Establish an MSRP
* Nutritional analysis
**Site Selection, Design And Build Out:**
* Evaluate site location options with you and your realtor and architects in terms of foot traffic and potential front of house and back of house layout
* Review lease with expert food service real estate attorney
* Analyze equipment needs given your menu
* Design and plan kitchen layout including measurement, equipment sourcing and procurement, specification sheets and blueprint review with your contractor
**Pre-Opening Project Tasks**
* Guidance with Front of the House design and layout and sources for furnishings
* Developing and overseeing comprehensive marketing plan including external and internal strategies, social media, website design and staff training to promote repeat business
* Work on planning grand opening and soft openings
* Evaluate and recommend production, inventory, and POS systems to support operation
**Staffing And Training​**
* Create employee manual with policies and forms for all employees
* Provide job descriptions for all front and back of house employees
* Back of the house and front of the house organization, scheduling and systems for maximum efficiency and low labor costs
* Assist with recruiting management and chefs
* Set up operation to comply with all food sanitation and health safety regulations
* Staff training in operations and food production
* Food preparation manuals
* Coaching for sanitation certifications
* Execution of menu
* Sop (standard operating procedure) development and implementation
## **Food ProductDevelopment and Launch**
Develop and bring your own food product to market with our help
## Services - Food Product Business Consulting
**Do you have an idea for a food product? Navigating the world of product certifications, food costs, vendor procurement, establishing your MSRP, nutritional labeling, package design, branding, production options from incubator kitchens to co packers, contracts, shelf life analysis, storage and shipping, distributors, retail outlets, mark ups, etc. is not for the faint of heart.
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**Work with the experienced team at Food Startup Help to help you bring your specialty food product to market successfully in the challenging food industry.**
**The Food Startup Help team of chefs can work with you to:**
**Determine Production And Growth Strategy**
* Identify incubator kitchen or commercial kitchen rental options
* Evaluate brick and mortar development sites or build out options
* Identify and work with co-packers to produce product for larger scale production options and test runs
 **Prepare For Product Launch**
* Define a unique concept to position product for success in the competitive food marketplace
* Scale up formulas, standardize production procedures and establish prices
* Analyze food costs and product viability
* Develop a short and long term distribution strategy providing potential distributors
* Establish a margin calculator for MSRP given your sales channel
* Complete nutritional analysis and nutritional label
* Supervise water activity test and shelf life tests
* Achieve certifications such as organic, non-GMO, vegan
* Change startup recipes to accommodate larger manufacturing equipment
* Work with you on food styling and photo shoots
**Brick And Mortar Product Launch**​
* Design and plan kitchen including equipment sourcing and layout
* Obtain equipment spec sheets, work with architect and contractor on build out
* Pre-opening training of employees and employee manual with all policies and forms for all employees
* Provide job descriptions for all Employees and assist with recruitment
* Work hands on with staff for training and production efficiency and optimization during opening phase
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## **Kitchen DesignServices**
## Commercial Kitchen Design
**Food Startup Help works with an affiliate to guide you through the process to select equipment for your operation. We understand the technical needs of your operation, and can interface with vendors as you make these difficult and expensive decisions.**
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## **Services:**
* Analyze your menu to provide detailed equipment requirements
* Define front of house requirements for retail establishments
* Establish project requirements, liaison between Architects, Contractors, and Food Service Equipment Vendors
* Prepare cost estimates within your budget
* Equipment research, evaluation and select nationally recognized food service equipment
* Obtain specification sheets for equipment, plumbing and electrical needs
* Provide detailed documentation of all food service equipment to allow for competitive pricing optimization
* Assist with bidding process
* Prepare “Final Set of Drawings” for Architect
* Prepare fully coordinated CAD working drawings and mechanical rough-in plans and tabulation indication utility service information for each piece of equipment furnished under the equipment contract
* Project management through installation and training
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## **Curriculum Development**
## Services - Online Culinary Course Creation
Are you creating your own online food courses or contemplating opening a cooking or baking school?  We have worked with multiple online and hands on recreational culinary schools and have created curriculum, nationally and internationally, from start to finish.
**​The Food Startup Help team can assist with many phases:**
* Create online topics and recipes and provide training
* Design your kitchens and source equipment including A/V
* Review and select textbooks
* Test recipes and write syllabi
* Perform peer review of new programs
* Write practical and written exams
* Develop evaluation rubrics
* Write staff descriptions and help recruit staff
* Establish budgets for classes and ordering ingredients
* Identify wholesale food purveyors in your area
* Write requisition sheets for each class
* Design student uniforms, tool kits
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## **Cooking with Cannabis**
## Services - Cooking with Cannabis
The Food Startup Help team can work with you to plan your profitable cannabis food business, whether it is launching a cannabis-related food product, catering, or designing a restaurant or café. We understand the legal challenges in this rapidly changing environment and are pioneers in this new food field.
If you are based in NY or NJ, we can help you navigate the legal red-tape and work with you on your menu and recipes, budget, fee structures,
and other challenges.  Qualified by both the Trichome Institute and the American Culinary Federation, our team was involved in the design and introduction of the first responsible cooking with cannabis class at CUNY for professional chefs. We’ve literally “taught the course.”
Work with the experienced team of chefs at Food Startup Help to help you with:
* Logistics, math calculations and legal ramifications for your business
* Quality and Safety
* Legal Issues
* Tolerance Calculations
* Cannabinoids
* Decarboxylation
* Terpenes
* Infusions
* Dosing
* Conflict with Alcohol
* Writing a Business Plan
* Testing Recipes
* Sourcing equipment
* Obtaining industry-recognized credentials as a Cannabis Chef
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