"Most founders don't fail because their ideas were bad or had a lack of them. They fail because they learned too late the business aspects that mattered".
Many aspiring founders want to launch a café, restaurant, bakery, cake shop, specialist food store or packaged food product, but do not know where to begin or what regulatory hurdles lie ahead.
What You Can Ask Us
Bring your real questions, rough ideas, and honest uncertainties. Here are the core areas we walk through together during your session.
Concept & Menu Viability
Food Safety & Home Production
Markets, Trucks & Pop-Ups
Pressure test your food concept, pricing model, and kitchen feasibility before investing in kit or lease agreements.
Understand legal compliance, kitchen hygiene setups, allergen documentation, and realistic guidelines for producing food from home.
Learn practical approaches to trading at street markets, outfitting mobile units, and securing temporary pop-up locations across London.
EHO & Council Relations
Premises Search & Licensing
Suppliers & Team Hiring
Confidently navigate local authority inspections, registration paperwork, and Environmental Health Officer requirements from the start.
Evaluate commercial premises suitability, extract ventilation needs, planning constraints, and alcohol licensing procedures.
Source reliable wholesale suppliers, establish account terms, and plan a sensible recruitment strategy for front and back of house.
What is Included
A clear, actionable consultation package structured to give you maximum momentum without locking you into expensive ongoing commitments.
A One-Hour Online Meeting
Tailored Mini Roadmap
30 Days Email Support
Focused, one-on-one video consultation dedicated entirely to your specific food venture, questions, and immediate challenges.
A clear summary of next steps and priority recommendations delivered straight to your inbox within 3 working days.
Unlimited follow-up questions by email for 30 days so you are never left guessing as you start executing your plan.
We bring over 30 years of real hospitality experience across global brands, independent restaurants, neighbourhood cafes, quick service restaurants, and food manufacturing operations both in the UK and abroad.
We have guided hundreds of aspiring food entrepreneurs through commercial realities, including through our regular business workshop series at the British Library.
How It Works
Share Your Challenge
Confirm Your Fee
Schedule Your Call
Email us a short description of your project, concept, or specific operational challenge so we can prepare.
Pay the £99 fee securely via PayPal, with direct bank transfer readily available on request.
We get in touch promptly to agree a convenient date and time for your online consultation.
Ready to take the first step?
Get practical answers to your biggest hospitality questions before you spend your hard-earned capital.