Product Development & Innovation
1. Product Development
- Translate consumer insights into product/concept design
- Bench prototyping
- Sensory/concept testing with target consumers
- Product optimization
- Ingredient sourcing
- Scale-up and commercialization
- Manufacturing partner vetting
- Product specification and manufacturing quality procedures development
- Marketing technical support
2. Culinary Innovation
- Quick menu development or refresh
- Menu gap analysis
- Competitive positioning and price point
- Recipe development and database creation
- Pantry simplification
- Back-of-the-house solutionsÂ
- Social media content developmentÂ
- Culinary content for product launches and eventsÂ
- Story building and ‘reason to believe’Â
- Event and show demo planning and support
3. Quality Troubleshooting & Technical Solutions
- Quality issues
- Quality shelf-life extensions
- Processing optimization
- Cost improvement/savings
- Supplier evaluation
4. R&D Competency & Coaching
- Customized technical competency development
- Coaching for Junior PD manager
- Customized technical training program
- Expertise in (but not limited to):
- Vegetable products and processing
- Coating systems technologies
- Meat Sciences and Technologies
- Smoking technologies
- Frying technologies
- Alternative cooking technologies
- Emulsion technologies
- Hydrocolloids/starches technologies and applications
- Bakery/baking sciences and technologies