and Hospitality Consulting
for partners and tools to support your development,
you’ve come to the right place.
One step at a time, you’ll get there. You just need your Key to success.
The secret for success in the management of the food & beverage industries lies in the selection and combination of the best ingredients: solid theoretical knowledge and practical skills, vision, motivation and dedication, the ability to seize opportunities and to bring together people, cultures, and traditions. This is the exact mix which brought us to create our boutique food service & hospitality consulting agency - Key to success.
“Success” may mean a hot new destination restaurant, renovated boutique hotel or vineyard, a gastronomic store with a great visitor experience, a revitalized event rental program at a museum or interactive gourmet-online store. Whatever ``success`` means for you, our Mission is to design and plan the optimal implementation model to make it happen. We succeed, thanks to this important aspect, to accompany our clients in each step of their path, thanks to our experience and the capacity of our network. We operate internationally with strong focus on the Italian and Bulgarian market.
CONCEPT DEVELOPMENT
We work with you to develop a rich, detailed business strategy, starting from the branding and the market research. We'll create a plan that will win over hearts and minds, while also laying out a clear path for delivery.
*Operations strategy
*Marketing strategy
*Brand strategy
*Growth strategy
*Start-up and roll-out
RESTAURANT CONSULTANCY
Effect team is ready to assist you with any aspect of your restaurant’s operation, big or small. We'll get you covered from the concept, branding, menu, food costing, to the inventory, the turnarounds and the guest experience.
ENTERTAINMENT & HOSPITALITY
We’ve taken our culinary expertise and applied it to hospitality and entertainment brands as well as non-commercial foodservice operators.
SUPPLY CHAIN
We can help senior executives align supply chain capabilities and operating models with their business strategies. We take an integrated view of the supply chain, unlocking hidden value in the connection points between functions and value chain partners. If you are looking for solid partnership and premium F&B brands to import from Spain and Italy, we can create your portfolio.
*Source new items or alternatives from local or international suppliers.
*Reduce and optimize cost while maintaining or improving quality.
*Establish and monitor cost reduction and pricing strategies.
*Establish warehouses with suitable best practices.
*Inventory optimization.
*Manage the logistics function by ensuring that goods are timely received, properly stores, issued, and distributed to end users.
*Assess and enhance performance and productivity of existing system while adding value to the process.
*Provide on the job directions, with leadership coaching and team development.
*Build all supply chain related policies, processes and procedure.
HR STRATEGY & TRAININGS
We help you assess your company structure and look at ways to bring functional experts into “mission driven” teams focused on customers, markets, or products. We will re-design your training systems and optimise your recruitment and staff performance. We are experts at streamlining processes and improving productivity of companies. We help clients optimize their business processes to ensure continued improvement in the organization’s performance.
*Organizational design and restructuring
*Training needs assessment - Sales & Customer satisfaction
*Recruitment and selection
*Performance management
*Reward management
*Culture management
*HR process improvement
FRANCHISE
We help our clients structure a franchise strategy based on the uniqueness of their situation and what they find most compelling as to brand, culture and operating models in order to attain their goals.
*Franchise Strategy (Type of franchise, brand margins, product margins)
*Franchise Financial business plans (Initial franchise fees, Royalties percentage, etc..)
*Franchise operating manuals and training programs
*Franchise organizational structure
*Sales and Marketing Plans
Go to the next level of excellence and profit with your food and beverage business.
How we work
Start with questions.
From day one, we listen and seek to understand your realities, challenges, and ambitions. Our cross-functional team engages with curiosity and expertise to define a clear vision of the journey we will take together. We bring a 360° perspective to your organization, uncovering solutions that work equally for your balance sheet, brand, people, and guests. From a range of possibilities, we pinpoint the path from insight to action.
By following the structures in the 𝗦𝗧𝗔𝗥𝗧 𝗨𝗣 phase, we are able to create ad hoc formats starting exactly from the soul of the project. You share your vision with us, sometimes the dream of a lifetime, and together we evaluate and develop your concept. We deep-dive even more into it to understand its strengths, challenges, and weakness relative to its competitive set. We analyze gaps in the market landscape that provide viable business opportunities.
Ideas you can work with.
By understanding your business first, we generate ideas that work beyond paper. With you as our creative partners, our ideas bridge consumer, brand, and operational realities. Our mission is to turn your vision into reality.
We translate ideas into experiences that drive your brand forward. We guide your teams and partners on the journey from ideation to implementation, and prototype to product.
We help brands engrain innovation into their company with new processes, schedules, and collaborative tools.
Deliver results, at scale.
Our work is not complete until your solutions are operational and scalable. The process continue also with different staff trainigs and techniques for effective teamwork and staff management. We arm you with the tools and materials you need to succeed today, tomorrow and beyond. Our last secret mission is to ensure and check the consistency, quality, and services offered in the new place.
The true measure of the value of any business leader and manager is performance.
We take pride in our entrepreneurial spirit and we are always in search of the “wow” effect. Our DNA urges us to accomplish extraordinary achievements and we don’t settle for less. We are eager to find innovative solutions to help our clients be game changers in their environment. Our aim is to always exceed expectations set by delivering the best of the firm to our clients.
We are a values-driven organization. At Effect, our values guide both our long-term strategy as a firm and the way we serve our clients on a daily basis. We have a solid commitment to always do the right thing by our clients, our people, our partners and our communities. Our corporate culture is based on three fundamental values - Excellence, Leadership and High professional ethics.
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