Are you planning to set up your own cafe selling home cooked food?

Are you in business already but things are not going well?

Do you want to buy an existing business and put your own stamp on it?

Are you a good cook and feel you would like to run a catering business from home?

Of course, you may have a great deal of information to hand already, but nothing beats relevant, recent, hands-on experience.  And that is where we come in.

As well as being successful business women, we are both accomplished professional chefs and caterers.  We ran our successful restaurant "Browns of Dorking" for seven years.  We now run this Consultancy as well as three food-related websites.  Prior to that we owned a delicatessen and catering business.

The trick in running a successful business is to try to be competent in all areas or at least understand how things work;  there is no point in being a brilliant cook if you are hopeless with the books.  Similarly, if you don’t understand costing, you will be pricing your food wrongly.  If you can’t get your account customers to pay you, or they pay you too tardily, it can cause you cash flow problems.  Accountants always bang on about the “bottom line” – and for very good reason! 

No matter how delicious your food, how much customers enjoy themselves, how popular your café is or how many good reviews you have, if you aren’t making any money – what is the point?

We aren’t solicitors, bank mangers or accountants, but we are able to offer the help and advice that we wished had been available to us when we started our food businesses all those years ago.

We won’t bombard you with business-speak or theorise too much – no sharp suits and flip charts -  but we will offer practical advice and try to tailor the consultancy to your specific needs.

So why not phone for an informal, no obligation chat or email your enquiry?