Consultancy packages, services and fee structure
Packages
Kitchen Design Starting from $2000
This type of service suits brand new establishments, those requiring a makeover or restaurants with a dis-functional kitchen. The kitchen is designed according to HACCP standards by qualified craftsmen in collaboration with a chef designer in order to maximise the kitchen’s potential, improving ergonomics and work-flow.
A kitchen’s design service is usually complemented with the creation of an appropriate menu as they influence each other and dictate the equipment needed in a brand new kitchen.
Menu Design Starting from $750
Delicious Italian specialises in the creation and implementation of Italian menus with the addition of international dishes if required by the restaurant’s concept. Therefore your food business would ideally have an Italian theme. Correct menu design is the result of the analysis and balance of a number of factors such as:
- Staff skills
- Restaurant concept
- Target market
- Opening hours
- Type of cuisine
- Budget
- Kitchen equipment
- Storage availability and much more….
A menu is the primary marketing tool for your establishment; an inappropriate or improvised menu could easily make the difference between success and failure.
Kitchen Staff Training Starting from $750
Our training is designed primarily for those kitchens wanting to re-create traditional Italian food and its authentic flavour. Whilst there are a lot of excellent chefs around, not every Italian restaurant are able to hire an Italian chef or a chef trained and worked in Italy. This service is usually provided alongside our menu design services.
Front of House Training Starting from $500
The front of house is the other side of the medal. A bad service even occasional, can end up in loss of customers and therefore business. It is important to understand that generally restaurant business thrives or survives on repetitive customers; a bad experience will ruin your reputation and diminish your client base. Our FOH training focusses on teaching the underpinning concepts of excellent restaurant service. Your staff will also learn how to obtain feedback, sell better and more and manage customers’ complaints.
Coffee Making Skills Starting from $500
Melbourne is Australia’s reference point for what todays is named “coffee culture” a recognised social phenomenon developed around the habit of drinking coffee.
Coffee drinkers nowadays are more discerning and exigent when it comes to savouring a good brew. Choosing a right blend and learning the right techniques on how to make the most popular coffees is an essential requirement for any food and hospitality business. For Italian restaurant, it is absolutely a must as your patrons will have higher expectations of your coffee. Provide your staff with the necessary skills to create the perfect latte and its derivatives and grab a slice of this ever-thriving business.
Graphic Design, Logo and Basic Website Starting from $1000
Compelling graphic design, an attractive logo and web presence are “essentials” in modern food businesses. Customers love to eat and drink in a place with style and do most of their research on Internet. Utilising our network and business partners we are able to provide you with these must-have services including, web design, logo design, uniform embroidery, colour scheme and advice on your restaurant design and layout.
Self-Auditing Starting from $500
Thanks to our auditing tools your business will be always in check.
We have a number of self-assessing checklists and customised core strategies to improve every aspect of your business from customers’ greeting to wastage management, from bar standard operating procedure to plate presentation.
Self-auditing is an indispensable part of business management. 80% of bankrupted businesses fail to self-assess their ongoing operations and procedures causing irreparable and fatal damages to an otherwise thriving business. Let us check how healthy your business is or ask us to help you with a do-it-yourself audit.
Recipe Book Starting from $250
Many a business involved with the manufacturing and sale of food very often require delicious and easy-to-prepare recipes to accompany their best selling products if not all the range available to their customers. A recipe booklet is one of the most effective marketing tools available to food companies. Some products are often new to national or regional markets and/or difficult to introduce to the mainstream cooking habits of your customers. A recipe book or even a recipe card is not only a very useful and appreciated gift it also constitute a form of merchandise as it displays your logo and valuable information about your company. Remember food packaging is often thrown out whilst recipes are mostly kept for future references…
In-Store Promotions Starting from $320 per day
We offer this type of service to food manufacturers that sell their Italian food products in store chains like delis and supermarkets. As affordable and delicious your products maybe they will take some time to be recognised and appreciated by the public. In-store demonstrations and promotions are direct and effective as they target your target market at the right place, at the right time. Whilst there are many organisations and agencies offering these type of services not many possess the know-how necessary to highlight the authenticity of your goods whilst providing customers with a thorough understanding surrounding their purchase. Our selling points are often based on the traditional, historical, geographical and technical characteristics that only a native person would know. That is why all our in-store promoters either have an Italian background or have recently moved to Australia.
Fee Structure
We do understand that your business maybe already under financial stress therefore we have created an alternative for you to choose from to the packages above.
We also recognise that some projects may require longer time to be carried out to completion therefore the longer we work with you the more affordable we become.
To some customers such rates may appear above average. A quick research on food, business and restaurant consultancy will reveal that the average hourly rate is around the $200+ mark and it stays the same regardless how many hours are required to complete the project. We are very flexible and do not bill by the minute…
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Hours |
Hourly rate |
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1-30 |
$160.00 |
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30-60 |
$ 130.00 |
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60-90 |
$ 100.00 |
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90+ |
$ 80.00 |
Travelling and admin time is billed at $ 45 per hour
Retainer
Many consultants regardless of where and how they do their consulting, whether with you at your workplace, providing advice over the phone or emailing their thoughts and opinions will charge just the same amount. We have also noticed that quite often businesses require an ongoing support or duties that were initially overlooked and surface at a later stage.
When possible we always prefer a face to face approach and are there to support you beyond the initial consultation or termination period of the project. That’s why we intend to provide you with the option of retaining us for a renewable period of up to 12 months. We will be available to answer your emails, your phone enquires and come to you once a month for instance to check how things are going and modify things if needed. If you are interstate we will fly to you at our expenses twice a year anywhere in Australia◊.