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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.

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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
• Develop recipes from scratch or additional SKU R&D
• Scale up formulas, standardize production procedures and establish prices
• Source ingredients and identify wholesale vendors
• 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