Specialist Food Business Consultancy in the UK: Expert Help Where It Matters
Some challenges need focused expertise rather than a full consultancy programme. Our specialist services for hospitality and food businesses are available as standalone engagements or as part of a wider programme of work.
Facing a specific challenge, from allergen compliance to new product development? Let our specialist services help you.
1. EHO Inspection Support & Allergen Compliance
Food safety compliance is an ongoing responsibility that affects every part of your operation, every day. Getting it wrong has serious consequences for your customers, your rating, your reputation and, in the most serious cases, your ability to keep trading.
As food safety consultants based in London, we design and implement allergen management systems that go beyond a laminated sheet on the wall. We train your team, audit your menus and processes, and make sure you comply with current UK legislation, including Natasha’s Law. The result is allergen information that is accurate at the point of order, not just recorded in a folder that nobody checks during a busy service.
We also provide targeted EHO inspection support, whether you are preparing for a routine visit, working to improve your Food Hygiene Rating, or responding to an enforcement notice or improvement requirement. We review your premises, documentation and your team’s knowledge, so you go into every inspection prepared rather than hoping for the best.
3. Hospitality Alcohol Licensing Law Advisory
Licensing is one of the areas where hospitality businesses most often run into problems. The rules are not impossible to understand, but they are detailed, procedural and unforgiving of small mistakes. A missed step, a poorly prepared application or a misunderstanding of what a Licensing Authority requires can delay an opening by months, or stop it altogether.
As hospitality licensing consultants with extensive experience across London and the wider UK, we understand not only the legislation but also how individual Licensing Authorities work in practice. Our support includes:
New premises licence applications for restaurants, bars, cafés and venues that want to sell alcohol or open late
Variation applications to extend hours, expand licensed areas or add new licensable activities
Personal licence applications for individuals
Designated Premises Supervisor (DPS) transfers after a change of management, a sale or a restructure, so trading continues without interruption
5. Pop-Up, Market Stall & Street Food Advisory
Street food and market trading come with their own operational, legal and commercial challenges. We give practical guidance to traders at every key stage, from their first market application to understanding what a move into permanent premises would realistically involve.
We can help with:
Producing food from home and the registration and hygiene rules that apply
Selling at markets or from a food truck, including applications and trading requirements
Finding pop-up locations that suit your concept and budget
Working with the EHO and your local council, so approvals and inspections do not hold you back
Whether you are testing an idea at a weekend market or planning your next step, we help you trade with confidence.
2. New Product Development (NPD) Consultancy
For established food businesses and new FMCG brands developing products for retail or food service, getting new product development right is the difference between a product that earns its place on the shelf and one that does not survive its first range review.
As FMCG food consultants based in London, we provide end-to-end NPD support, from concept and recipe development to costing, shelf life, food labelling compliance and route-to-market strategy, with the commercial discipline that buyers and retail partners expect.
We also go further on production. We can find and introduce you to manufacturing facilities that meet your needs, whether that is a co-packer for small batch runs, a certified facility for allergen-free production, or a manufacturer with the capacity and accreditation to supply major retailers. Finding the right co-packer is one of the hardest practical steps in bringing a food product to market, and we handle that search for you.
This service is for businesses that are ready to scale their product offer, not just develop it.
4. Investor & Pitch Deck Preparation
Raising investment for a food or hospitality business requires a specific kind of credibility. Hospitality investors, whether angel investors, venture capital firms, family offices or hospitality-focused funds, can quickly tell whether a founder truly understands their own business. A polished presentation without commercial substance will not survive the questions that follow.
We help founders and operators build investor materials that show real operational understanding and financial discipline, the kind that holds up under scrutiny. This includes:
A pitch deck that tells your brand story, explains your market opportunity and presents your growth plan in terms investors recognise
A financial summary with realistic revenue projections, unit economics, cost of goods analysis and break-even modelling based on credible market assumptions
Due diligence documents, including operational overviews, management profiles, market positioning analysis and a clear breakdown of how the funds will be used
6. Workshops, Masterclasses & Speaking Engagements
Standard hospitality recruiters tend to work from the same pools of available candidates. For general roles, that approach often works well. For specialist roles, especially those that need deep expertise in a specific cuisine, it often falls short, and vacancies can stay open for months while unsuitable candidates keep coming through.
As specialist chef recruitment consultants based in London, we work through a network built over several decades at the highest levels of the food and hospitality industry. It covers professional kitchens, culinary schools, industry associations and personal contacts across many countries and cultures. This gives us access to candidates that standard recruitment channels rarely reach.
7. Specialist Recruitment for Hard-to-Fill and Cuisine-Specific Roles
Foodication delivers bespoke workshops, training sessions and masterclasses for a wide range of organisations, including business accelerators, enterprise support agencies, universities, further education colleges, local authorities and corporate clients. Topics include food entrepreneurship, hospitality operations, food safety, menu development and commercial strategy.
Our founder is an experienced public speaker and facilitator, with over twelve years of workshop delivery at the British Library’s Business & IP Centre, one of the UK’s leading entrepreneurship support centres. This experience shows in his ability to explain complex operational and commercial topics clearly and in a way that moves people to action.
If you are looking for a speaker or facilitator with real industry knowledge and strong teaching ability, we would be glad to discuss what we can offer your organisation or event.
We find and introduce candidates for roles that are hard to fill, including:
executive and head chefs
specialist cuisine chefs in Japanese (including sushi), Chinese, Vietnamese, Lebanese, Armenian, Greek and Italian cooking
front-of-house managers, general managers and beverage specialists
Every introduction is based on a real understanding of your business and your standards, not an automated CV match against a job description. If a role has not been filled through the usual routes, this is where we can help.
Contact Us
Contacts
Phone: 020 8123 8450
Email: contact@foodication.co.uk
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Registered Address
Unit A391, 4-6 Greatorex Street
London E1 5NF, United Kingdom
Office Hours
Monday to Saturday
9:00 to 18:00