menu of services
Founder Katie O’Reilly and her team of culinary and food industry experts offer a full range of services to some of the tastiest clients you’ll ever meet—from restaurants to packaged foods start-ups to large-scale manufacturers.
Recipe Creation and Testing
Backing up her over all menu development, Katie is an expert at presenting new ideas for menu item concepts, will write specific and easy to follow instruction, and test and alter recipes as needed. Katie can also take your classic menu items or new ideas for menu additions and make sure you have a true winner to serve your guests. Employing her sophisticated yet down to earth pallet and global knowledge of food, you and they will be wowed with the results, and will quickly recapture the cost of her services with increase revenues and repeat customers. As her clients exclaim, “There is nothing on a menu that Katie cannot make better!!”
Menu Development
Katie’s talent in this area is beyond imagination. Her creativity alone is awe inspiring, but she also incorporates integrity of ingredients and products utilized, adds seasonal and unique concepts, and of course, adds her magical and elusive “simple done perfectly” style to make all dishes not only exceptionally appealing, but also simple to reproduce, with her guidance and mentoring. If you need a menu rewrite, or just some overall menu tweaking, Katie is the perfect fit to help you accomplish these goals.
Kitchen Audits
Cost of product, staffing, and efficiency are the biggest drains on resources for most food outlets and restaurants. This is where Katie’s understanding and experience of the operations side of the business can really pay off in increasing your bottom line. She will streamline your efficiency in product ordering, food prep, storage, and point of sale service. Katie possesses innovative procedures that she will apply to your specific needs that will allow you to keep much more of your top revenue dollars. It is every business owner’s dream to increase their bottom line without having to find new sources of hard to get revenue in an overcrowded industry. Lat Katie accomplish this for you at pennies on the dollar!
Business Strategy
Katie and her team have years of experience in the restaurant and food service industry and can bring that talent to bear to help you understand your goals and help you to reach them. From start ups to rebuilds to minor and major adjustments on the fly, Katie can help to define who you are, where you want to be, and who and where your customers are found. This can be a dizzying process for some, and a mistake during this essential process is essential. Katie will bring clarity and focus to this process instead and take the worry off your plate.
Marketing
Getting the word out to the right people at the right time in the right way through the right instrument is an elusive and slippery process, that eludes many business owners, big and small. Katies extensive knowledge of the food service industry marketplace and her understanding of customer triggers and habits can take the guess work out of this process and allow you to focus on what you do best.
Website Development
Pulling together marketing and business strategy with who you are and what your customer looks like is a skill that few people process, and takes a global understanding of the marketplace, competition, customer behaviors, and product and service development. At this Katie has been a sparkling gem of the food service industry. In fact, she has crossed the line into entertainment, publishing, and media development.
Photography and Video Design and Production
Incredibly, along with all of Katie’s skills in the creative food and menu design and marketing talents, she is also a creative food stylist and food photographer, and we all know that a picture tells a thousand tales. Not only that, but she and her team are proficient in creative video design and production, which are essential for website and social media enhancement. She will design and produce videos that can be utilized in a wide array of media deployments that will enhance your status, image, and brand.
Social Media
If you are like most business owners out there, you probably already know social media is important, but are somewhat mystified as to how to get started, and how to keep it growing. Katie has much experience in developing and deploying social media campaigns and can design a campaign that will be affordable and extremely effective. This includes content as well as design and placement. Most importantly however, you will also have access to Katies far reaching social media network, which you can rely on while you build your own following.
Celebrity Branding
Developing a celebrity brand has easily brought Katie the most fame and fortune she has enjoyed in her career. Her over the top “Celebrity Branding” concepts will redefined ways for you to position yourself in the marketplace, as a known authority and validated industry player. Katie is on the cutting edge of this branding concept, and she can help you achieve what you have only dreamed of becoming. This can include short 5-minute videos, full length TV show episodes, and book design and publishing. This may be Katies most profound creation, and she is ready to guide you through the creation of your own unique and exciting celebrity brand development. Let Katie make you a star!
Branding
Getting the word out to the right people at the right time in the right way through the right instrument is an elusive and slippery process, that eludes many business owners, big and small. Katies extensive knowledge of the food service industry marketplace and her understanding of customer triggers and habits can take the guess work out of this process and allow you to focus on what you do best.
Retail Packaging
Once again, Katie is able to bring her experience in retail product launch to help you design and create packaging for your retail food products. Packaging design optimization and label design are key factors in launching or relaunching your retail products, and Katie is a perfect partner for this sometimes overwhelming process.
Custom Projects
Katie and her team have covered most facets of creative foods businesses, but not all. If your food-industry business has unique challenges and are in need of experts at the table with you, we are ready to sit down and talk. If Katie and her team, can't help you we certainly know the people that can! We are ready to hear all about your business and figure out how to support you!
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