Food Technical Consulting
Food Technical Consulting (FTC) provides international QSR/Fast Casual restaurant consulting in new product and menu innovation, food safety/QA/HACCP, continuous quality improvement, food cost reduction, equipment testing and certification, expert witness testimony, and business performance metrics and analytics.
The Food Innovation Institute, a FTC subsidiary, provides workshops, training, and education services in food innovation, food safety, mobile retail food vending (food trucks), and business intelligence analytics (finance, marketing, and operations). The innovation workshops are held at Johnson & Wales University in Denver, CO, and taught by leading industry experts and/or distinguished culinary chefs. Most classes qualify for RCA continuing recertification education contact hours.
Food Technical Consulting also has 7 years food and beverage IT systems software consulting in electronic specification management, manufacturing, and supply chain management with Fortune 100 and 500 restaurant industry suppliers – and represents a unique collection of skill sets, expertise, and experience in both restaurant operations and food processing. This blend of talents has enabled FTC to provide $35M in food cost savings to restaurant chains in the past 6 years. Our understanding of manufacturing processes, software systems, lean manufacturing, flow technology, supply chain distribution, and activity based costing enables us to bring significant savings to your store level food costs.
Dr. Darrel Suderman has 15 years executive restaurant experience at KFC, Boston Market, Church’s Chicken, Quiznos, Chick-fil-A, Captain D’s, and Wendy’s International. He also worked 3 years for a leading restaurant supplier, and 7 years in retail packaged goods. In addition, he has 6 years experience as VP/General Manager of two leading software integration and consulting companies. He is a regular featured speaker for many Information Technology webinars and annual software sales conventions for the food and beverage processing industry. Dr. Suderman has co-authored a food processing book, holds two U.S. patents, and written over 40 trade industry and peer reviewed research papers, white papers, and trade articles.
Food Technical Consulting staff includes food technologists with B.S., M.S., and PhD degrees, former restaurant CEO and COO, culinary and Certified Master Chefs, and leading business performance financial analysts. FTC has business partnerships with some of the leading international software companies that represent best-of-class software solutions.
Food Innovation Workshops
The Food Innovation Institute (FII), the education and training division of Food Technical Consulting sponsors unique food innovation classes on an international basis based on two Harvard Business Press innovation books.
Learn More...Structured Food Cost Reduction Consulting
FTC uses its own copyrighted PROCAM© Process Cost Analysis Methodology at the manufacturing plant level to reduce your food costs through improved production efficiencies and unnecessary processing costs at the SKU level – sometimes called Activity Based Costing (ABC).
Learn More...Food Safety & Quality Assessment Consulting
FTC develops detailed food safety; HACCP, quality assurance, and product recall programs for emerging new restaurant chains, or a critical assessment of existing programs in established chains. These quality gap assessments are critical in identifying holes in your customer food safety shield.
Learn More...A – Z Food Truck Business Development Consulting
FTC is passionate about mobile food retailing, and has assembled an expert team of food safety and equipment experts, culinary chefs, business and financial analysts, attorneys, and operations experts to help aspiring business owners develop and implement successful business and marketing plans.
Learn More...Continuous Quality Product Improvement Consulting
FTC provides proven expertise and experience at continually driving quality of your products at the manufacturing level to insure your customers last eating experience equaled their first WOW moment – and at lower food costs when applicable.
Learn More...International Supply Chain Development
FTC provides experienced supply chain development to support international store expansions through sourcing suppliers, product and process specification development, food safety/HACCP and quality program development, alternate supplier approvals, cost reductions, and continuous quality improvement.
Learn More...Foodservice Equipment Testing and Validation
FTC retains the leading foodservice equipment engineering and testing consultants who have led and developed some of the most innovative equipment in history. FTC has led projects representing 40% cost reduction projects, and developed leading equipment innovations like Boston Market’s rotisserie cooking oven.
Learn More...Business Intelligence Analytics
FTC provides world-class Business Intelligence (BI) marketing, finance, and operations analytics using world-class software systems. Our business intelligence analytics begin with an assessment of business KPIs.
Learn More...Food Litigation Expert Witness
Food Technical Consulting provides food litigation expert witness support to the restaurant industry in the areas of food product liability. plant safety, patent infringement product claims, contract disputes, product formulas, regulatory compliance, store operations safety, bioterrorism, and food processing issues.
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