Business
Development
Devlin Consulting can help develop your business to its full potential by building on your current strengths and identifying how to improve areas of weakness. By looking at all areas of your catering offer – across strategy, tactics, product, and finances – we can align these to your overall business objectives. This results in assessing any quality issues, recommending efficiency improvements, analysing new markets, and evaluating new opportunities. In doing so, we ensure you exceed your customer’s expectations.
Sales Growth
- By listening to you and working alongside your catering teams we can deliver increased value from your catering and hospitality offers.
- If you have an established business that needs to be invigorated, we can review, advise, and provide workable solutions, to optimise space and increase capacity.
- Our team will research the market, evaluate competitors, and using our industry knowledge, recommend and implement successful growth strategies.
Menu Development
- The best menus and product ranges are those that offer optimum quality, stimulate interest, and evoke your taste buds, whilst minimising waste and delivering sustainable profit.
- In our experience chefs value the opportunity to work with informed and like-minded people to explore their ideas and creativity to deliver excellence.
Food & Beverage Control
- First class procurement and cost management tools are pivotal to any successful food and beverage operation, and this needs to work hand-in-hand with innovation and technology.
- Our team are able to analyse existing data such as sales mixes, , recipe costings, stocktaking procedures, supplier agreements, and ultimately, gross profits.
- Reviewing the most appropriate systems and technology for your business is a key element in improve wider efficiency.
Safeguarding
- Robust Health & Safety, and Food Hygiene practises are an essential foundation to running your business and maintaining legal compliance.
- Our experts will audit your current systems and processes, review staff training, identify gaps in compliance provide bespoke solutions.
- Alternatively, for any new food business we can provide a comprehensive service, from the development of full Health & Safety and Food Safety Manuals, including HACCP processes, risk assessments and safe systems of work, to food business registrations and liaison with local enviromental health departments.
What we do.
- Are you a Commercial Director seeking to improve your venues catering performance?
- Does your in-house catering team need direction and expertise to uplift standards, grow sales and improve profit?
- Or have your venue caterers lost their direction and require support?
- We work with destination venues and blue-chip organisations in the UK to deliver the very best customer experience and optimise financial returns.
- We are a truly independent catering consultancy, with both operational and strategic expertise, able to assist with short & long-term projects.
- We have proven track record of giving sound catering advice, driving revenues and improving efficiencies we can help your business thrive.
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Business
Development
We can help develop your business to its full potential by building on your current strengths and identifying how to improve areas of weakness. By looking at all areas of your catering offer – across strategy, tactics, product, and finances – we can align these to your overall business objectives. This results in identifying any quality issues, recommending efficiency improvements, analysing new markets and evaluating new opportunities. By doing so, we ensure you exceed your customer’s expectations.
Project
Management
Using our combined skills, we are able to initiate, plan, execute and manage new initiatives or changes for your business, applying processes that will deliver projects on time, within budget, scoping innovations that will be delivered to the agreed standard.
Your project will be planned, from concept to delivery with key milestone dates identified.
Stakeholders’ briefings are prepared and delivered throughout project timeline.
Performance
Management
People are at the heart of hospitality. The passion, warmth, generosity and openness of owners, directors, managers, and their teams contributes hugely to the customer experience.
Harnessing these qualities ensuring they are used to achieve the business goals is essential for success. We bring our experience, ability, and proven track record to maximise performance management in your business.
The Team.
Jayne Devlin
Managing Director
Andy Cleary
Retail & Mobilisation
Laura Whitehouse
Development Chef
Mark Arnull
Procurement &
Systems Management
Mick Markham
