Modern Food Arts LLC

Your Restaurant Consultant Expert in Washington DC

A Commitment to Your Hospitality Success:

In simplest terms, the Modern Food Arts organization is the best hospitality consulting organization in the U.S.. At MFA, we’re purely focused on our your success, and in winning as a top performance organization in the hospitality and food arts industry. Our expertise and 30-years of experience provides expertise and creates client insight and knowledge that supports long-term guaranteed success for every client that we work with.

What’s in it for you? You’ll have a partner you can trust, depend upon, understands your needs, and one that will guide you through the process of creating business success! We will fully develop your new concept, products, executing strategies and new operational standards, while mentoring you each step of the way! Our relationships with our clients inspires and drives every aspect of our consulting practice.

Check out our services at www.modernfoodarts.com – you can email Steven directly at steven@modernfoodarts.com as well for a free, no-obligation advisement discussion.

Our passion in creating client value and success knowledge is built upon 25 years of knowledge, learning, growth, and in successfully supporting hospitality restaurateurs. We look at your business as though it’s ours, as we’re only successful when we’ve successfully achieved your desired results! We advise, plan and support you through every phase and process of your project.

Our client driven expertise in creating or rebuilding your hospitality brand includes; [dynamic concept development, restaurant design, service concepts, menu ideation, marketing and sales training, financial modeling, equipment specifications, just to name a few.  Within your existing business, we offer diagnostics, analysis and services refinement to solve any  challenge that you’re experiencing today. Our clients have praised our services and our success has built partnerships that have lasted for decades! We’re there for you through inception, branding, design, flow, training, financial expertise and grand opening!

We support your vision and we’re there to build your brand through our network of industry real estate experts, tacticians, culinary specialists, big data support partners as well as our marketing and branding innovators. As the best restaurant experts in Washington DC & Baltimore, we’ve celebrated our client’s incredible successes for 15 years!

Our journey has been one of hard work, an intense passion to win for our clients, and a dedication to understand industry trends, standards as well as guest service standards. Our experience in hospitality consulting is far less important than the relationships and success that we’ve achieved as partners with the clients that have trusted us with their business success.

Modern Food Arts Restaurant Consultants (a Nouveau Enterprises Co.) is a team of best restaurant experts and management professionals that bring innovative ideas and powerful results to your organization. We create sustainable brands and relationships while driving bottom line performance for your brand and organization. The cornerstone of our brand has always been trust, innovation and best in class resources that support your growth.

We provide coaching and training, and operations systems to ensure that when we’ve completed your project, you can succeed through our ‘Blueprint for Success’ and – T.E.A.M. System! MFA is a hospitality consulting firm known for creative solutions and innovative strategies that provide a full-range of services, from concept development, food and beverage strategies, menu development, restaurant design, marketing, training and hospitality service initiatives.

As the best restaurant experts in Washington DC & Baltimore, and systems and efficiency experts, we develop strategies to improve your operations and financial performance by implementing proven industry solutions. This ensures that you’ll increase revenue over time, reduce food and beverage costs, and support labor and operating cost controls while maximizing productivity.

Our best restaurant experts consulting team is the only consulting team that has experience in building and optimizing fast casual restaurant start-ups and turn around strategies for struggling and financially distressed brands. Since 2003, MFA consultants (410) 571.4008 – have been a strategic resource to national and International independent restaurant companies from Sir Corp, to Great American Restaurants, the Clyde’s Group, Le Pain Quotidien and The Addison Restaurant Group, to name a few. We’ve also worked in food production, USDA manufacturing and have been successful within every dining segment. Moreover, we service restaurants large and small and we proudly stand behind our success as the restaurant and hospitality experts you want on your team!

  Restaurant Consulting Firm with a Proven Track Record

Our principles have decades of experience in concept design, supply chain, equipment specifications and sourcing as well as world-class menu development and guest service training and development. An experienced restaurant professional understands that the restaurant business is a relationship business first and then a financial business. We also understand that only then can it be operated and managed as a profit-making venture. For those who are first entering the restaurant business, we passionately advise consulting with a reputable restaurant professional as an advisor, training coach and mentor to guide you in making critical decisions associated with a new restaurant start up.

When first getting involved in the restaurant business, it is essential to understand that this is a business with many moving parts and functions. It is highly recommend that you engage a restaurant professional who understands how to minimize your exposure and optimize your investment. Our team of restaurant professionals can prepare a low risk feasibility study that will give you the essential information to make a sound business decision as well as to understand what’s required to maximize the performance of your investment.

Our restaurant expert consultant team will guide and direct you to avoid typical pitfalls and perils that most restaurateurs experience:

The Intent & Identity of a Successful Restaurant

 The Fundamental Start Up Metrics For a Successful Opening:

• Discovery & Feasibility Study
• Research & Business Model Framework
• Concept Development
• Design & Vision Board Process (architect, designer)
• Menu (Food & Beverage) Development
• Equipment & Supplies Specification & Supply Chain Framework (branded supplies specs)
• Applications & Permits
• Construction & Trades Interview & Bid Process
• Financial Analysis
• Marketing & Promotion Infrastructure (website, social media, brand ambassadors)
• Project Management & Cost Reviews
• *Staff Recruitment & Training (culture designation)
• *Grand Opening & Local Outreach

*Optional Additional Steps & Services

As you can see, there’s an extensive strategy, planning and communication process behind every new concept opening. Having a partner who’s been through the process dozens of times is incredibly valuable to ensure optimal allocation of resources!

Local & National Restaurant Experts

Modern Food Arts is a team of Restaurant Professionals with a proven track record. We will support and develop your vision and bring your concept dreams into reality. Our framework of overlaying the plan and brand through the market research and diligence will out-maneuver the competition and drive cash flow. Restaurant business success is about differentiation, a clean and crisp business model that works, and a cost/retail analytics model that generates maximum cash flow.

Keep in mind that “restaurant experience” only applies to restaurant operations, assuming that that experience was quality experience that generated optimal results. The essential attributes of top performance and industry success are current trend industry knowledge, business experience and judgment, leadership skills, and sound hospitality business decision-making.

The restaurant start-up process is typically where success or failure is determined. Unless you have the expertise, experience and have learned the expensive lessons that seasoned industry veterans have learned, hiring a consultant is the best investment you’ll make! When considering a restaurant start up, every aspect of business needs to be considered, from the location, to the market you choose to serve. A start up that brings a high performance team of consultants to the project will accelerate the build out, reduce costs and time and open in a timely manner and produce profits faster.

Orchestrating and managing a restaurant start up is complicated and involves several key areas of expertise. Structuring a restaurant start up successfully and maintaining the project flow and costs controls is accomplished through proper planning and activation from the beginning to the end. A restaurant start up is what Modern Food Arts Consultants specialize in. We’ve been successful in this industry as industry executives and consultants for more than 25 years.

Are You Ready?

If you’re going to be successful in a start-up, rebranding of an existing concept or a start-over, there are several considerations. Areas of concern with a restaurant start up include conceptual assessment, facilities design to marketing and food and beverage menu development. The proper structure of collaboration, disciplines, culinary knowledge, training, industry management expertise and the discipline to ensure operational excellence is essential. Putting MFA on the project as your guide for a restaurant start up will help you to avoid the trap doors, costly mistakes and nightmares that inexperienced entrepreneurs experience when attempting to enter the restaurant business.

We’re Ready to Be Your Hospitality Success Partner!

MFA Restaurant Consultants are specialists in single restaurant start-ups or in planning a chain of locations. With 15 years of consulting experience, MFA is the only choice for your restaurant start up. With expertise in helping the nations leading restaurant groups increase profits, MFA will support your restaurant project with energy, expertise, knowledge and proven results!

A new restaurant start up can be an absolute nightmare or failure, but it is a highly profitable venture if conceived, structured and managed well. Our proven restaurant start up process ensures that a strategy of vetted creativity, design & build, best practices and time tested experience ensures your success. You can count on the best restaurant experts in Washington DC & Baltimore (Modern Food Arts LLC) to become your partner, advisor and expert analytics consultant throughout the process of your new restaurant start up or the re-launch of your existing concept!

Partner with the most trusted  Consultants in the business, at Modern Food Arts we’re committed to your success and we’ll be by your side and on your side, every step of the way!

Contact us today for a free consultation. support@modernfoodarts.com – 410.571.4008

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