Food Litigation Expert Witness

Food Technical Consulting (FTC) partners with individual attorneys and law firms to provide them world-class subject matter expertise in all areas of food and beverage science, technology, processing, food safety and regulatory compliance, and restaurant foodservice litigation. This unique expertise and experience has widespread application in all areas of the food supply chain including: Fast Casual and QSR (Quick Serve Restaurants) restaurants; retail grocery and convenience stores; food and beverage processing plants, etc. FTC will assemble expert witness teams as required for large cases. Dr. Suderman has over 15 years hands-on restaurant experience in eight quick serve restaurant chains across multiple departments, and he has 7 years experience in supplier manufacturing and supply chain management consulting – with product recall experience. Our team has extensive food processing and restaurant experience; has written technical books, peer reviewed papers (10), trade industry white papers and magazine articles (40), and holds U.S. patents across most food and beverage disciplines.

  • Food Product and Plant Safety
  • Patent Infringement
  • Product Claims
  • Contract Disputes
  • Product Formulation
  • Product Liability
  • Regulatory Compliance
  • QSR/Retail Grocery Operations Safety
  • Beverage Processing Issues
  • Bioterrorism

FTC will provide independent laboratory analysis services to provide case support as needed with world-class analytical laboratories. Sample pick-up and delivery services are available. Please refer your risk manager or insurance carrier to us for your assistance and contact us for case histories.     

  Products and Services
  • Food Innovation Workshops

    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.


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  • Structured Food Cost Reduction Consulting

    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).


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  • Food Safety & Quality Assessment Consulting

    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.


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  • A – Z Food Truck Business Development Consulting

    A â 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.


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  • Continuous Quality Product Improvement Consulting

    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.


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  • International Supply Chain Development

    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.


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  • Foodservice Equipment Testing and Validation

    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.


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  • Business Intelligence Analytics

    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.


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Darrel Suderman
Darrel Suderman, Ph.D., is president of Food Technical Consulting and founder of Food Innovation Institute. He has held senior R&D/QA leadership positions at KFC, Boston Market, Church's Chicken and Quiznos and led KFC’s development team of “Popcorn Chicken”, now a $1B international product –invented by Gene Gagliardi.