Food Service Consulting | Real Food Matters

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Client Testimonials

I've had the pleasure of working closely with the snob and the geek, both individually and together, for decades, and it's been one of the great joys of my career. Ken and David are always thoughtful, collaborative, dynamic, and most importantly, incredibly good at what they do! Ken is a brilliant culinary chef and commercialization expert, always focused on launching something that's as close as possible to the gold standard the team agreed on. David is exceptional at synthesizing product trends and ideating, but equally good at the business of innovation - driving projects, bringing teams together, working closely with manufacturers, providing thoughtful and detailed perspective on strategy, sequencing, execution, negotiations, and countless other areas. Whether innovating, ideating, product optimizing, or cost optimizing, the snob and the geek are always at the top of my trusted speed dial list of partners and collaborators. Oh, and by the way, they're pretty fun to work with too...

David and Ken are highly talented R&D innovators with the unique ability to translate a brand's needs into actionable innovation. They blend a chef-inspired approach with traditional R&D technology and come up with uniquely differentiated propositions that can be made at scale. These are deeply principled people that were a pleasure to work with throughout my product development projects and beyond.

Working with Ken and David is one of the best decisions I’ve ever made. They’re masters of product development, with the ability to take a product from ideation all the way through operational scale-up to commercialization, with a laser focus on costs and P&L. Add to it their strategic thinking and business acumen, and you have a full service, best-in-class shop for any product development help. Hands-down would hire any time, any place, anywhere.

David's strong leadership of the prepared foods and bakery programs during Whole Foods Market's entry into the Rocky Mountain Region set a benchmark for us going forward in retail execution, which was reflected in the store's record sales for the company. He was awarded a National All-Star award for his effort, and his contribution can still be felt today.

“I’ve partnered with Real Food Matters and David on a number of successful global and US retail and foodservice R&D projects over the years. They’re real professionals, plugged into ‘what’s next,’ terrific at R&D, understand the process from start to finish, listen to client needs carefully and help guide the process.

I've known and enjoyed working with Ken and David for over 10 years across multiple brands and projects. They’re the real deal, bringing positive impact and value to whatever they touch by blending best in class culinary sensibility, deep technical chops and business savvy.

Creative, On-Trend, Engaged, Hands-On, Detailed, Partnering - these are all words that I can use to describe the excellent work that Real Food Matters provided for our project. David and Ken were incredible to work with from the very early steps of ideation, through prototyping, and then commercialization. I highly recommend Real Food Matters.

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