Enhance Your Fresh Food Products and Programs

Food Merchant Consulting focuses primarily on fresh prepared foods sold in retail. I bring manufacturers and retailers together, fostering collaborations that cultivate successful and profitable relationships. Today’s operators navigate challenging realities such as skilled labor shortages, evolving customer demographics, rising kitchen and department build-out costs, and the increasing variety of consumer meal choices due to the proliferation of delivery services.

Modern consumers demand more natural, organic, and sustainable food options, along with foods that cater to specific dietary needs such as vegan, vegetarian, gluten-free, dairy-free, nut-free, low-carb, low-sugar, Paleo, etc. Fresh food producers benefit from economies of scale in both labor and food costs by producing larger batch quantities with a more skilled labor force. However, these producers face the challenge of delivering their product offerings in cost-effective, customized menu options designed to elevate and enhance the retailer’s prepared foods departments. I have worked with dozens of fresh food producers to create fresh food programs that retailers want and need to succeed in retail.

Food Merchant Consulting advises both fresh prepared food producers and retailers, creating partnerships that drive successful and profitable prepared food offerings.