Culinary Solutions

Foodbuy Hospitality's Culinary Solutions is a consultancy department that offers culinary support designed specifically for our Members.

Overview

Foodbuy Hospitality's Culinary Solutions experts partner with your team to identify back-of-house operational challenges and make recommendations that foster success. From menu engineering to spec book development to product cuttings, our culinarians and food and beverage efficiency experts are prepared to tackle any challenge you have and recommend solutions that improve your bottom line.

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Closing the gap between culinary and procurement

Closing the gap between culinary and procurement

Culinary support designed to be as unique as our Members. We can help with:

  • Menu and Recipe Development
  • Product Evaluations and Cuttings
  • In-person and Virtual Trainings
  • SKU Rationalizations
  • Spec Book Development
  • Reporting
  • Implementation of Food Waste Best Practices
  • and More
Chef Susan Forbes

Chef Susan Forbes

Meet Your Culinary Solutions Team Representative

After graduating Iowa State University and Johnson Wales, Susan worked for Compass Group’s Chartwells sector in both Higher Ed and K-12 as a Regional Chef and Director of Culinary. Her background includes cruise lines, hotels, and as Corporate Executive Chef in the contract foodservice industry. Susan has an excellent background in menu and product development, relaunching menus for two of Foodbuy’s largest Hospitality customers.

Now, she specializes in projects for Foodbuy Hospitality, serving our members as a valuable resource.

Culinary Solutions Successes

Empowering Foodbuy Hospitality Members to gain more competitive costs and operational insights.

A large, national hotel chain was looking to narrow purchasing to selected products in order to maximize quantity and minimize cost. Foodbuy Hospitality's Culinary Solutions team assisted in the development of a spec book to help to identify key items that the client should be utilizing. Culinary Solutions helped integrate this spec book and customized shopping lists into the client's eProcurement platform for all locations. As a result, Foodbuy Hospitality delivered $45K of additional savings to this organization.”

Foodbuy Hospitality's Culinary Solutions team partnered with a convention center to evaluate purchasing behaviors and look for ways to reduce costs. After extensive analysis of purchases, all outlets, menu mixes, marketing and operations, Foodbuy Hospitality's Culinary Solutions was able to identify $120k in annualized savings while on property with another $20k+ proposed.”

When the COVID-19 pandemic caused resource limitations for a well-known hotel management group, they came to Foodbuy Hospitality for support in creating a cost-effective, rotational breakfast program that was easy to replicate, easy for staff to prepare and offered hot and cold options. Culinary Solutions helped create a new menu that met these requirements and offered guidance on what products should be purchased daily. The menu was easily rolled out to all locations, and allowed this organization make quick changes at a time when operations where challenging. ”

A large, national hotel chain was looking to narrow purchasing to selected products in order to maximize quantity and minimize cost. Foodbuy Hospitality's Culinary Solutions team assisted in the development of a spec book to help to identify key items that the client should be utilizing. Culinary Solutions helped integrate this spec book and customized shopping lists into the client's eProcurement platform for all locations. As a result, Foodbuy Hospitality delivered $45K of additional savings to this organization.”

Foodbuy Hospitality's Culinary Solutions team partnered with a convention center to evaluate purchasing behaviors and look for ways to reduce costs. After extensive analysis of purchases, all outlets, menu mixes, marketing and operations, Foodbuy Hospitality's Culinary Solutions was able to identify $120k in annualized savings while on property with another $20k+ proposed.”

When the COVID-19 pandemic caused resource limitations for a well-known hotel management group, they came to Foodbuy Hospitality for support in creating a cost-effective, rotational breakfast program that was easy to replicate, easy for staff to prepare and offered hot and cold options. Culinary Solutions helped create a new menu that met these requirements and offered guidance on what products should be purchased daily. The menu was easily rolled out to all locations, and allowed this organization make quick changes at a time when operations where challenging. ”

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