Consulting Chef Services

Food Service Consulting, Education and Training

Improve for the future!

Now is the time to improve your business! 

Don't Wait Until It's Too Late:   Contact Good Cooking Today!

• Competitive Rates

• Honest Advice

• Experienced and Trustworthy

Good cooking supplies a vast variety of food related services to individuals and the food industry. Internet awareness and computer training, Internet site construction and going live. Marketing, promotion and consumer awareness. Restaurant start-up and implementation of systems, the basics of how to start a restaurant.

• Food Service Consulting

• Cost Controls

• Culinary Education and Food Service Training  

• Menu & Wine List Development

• Website/ Internet Presence

• Food Safety Awareness

• Brainstorming

• Marketing

• Hands-on Instruction

• Operational Review

Your future is now!

Don't Wait Until It's Too Late: Contact Good Cooking Today!

Areas of expertise:

• Business plans; cash flow analysis, budgeting, startup planning and bank financing. 
• Restaurant and kitchen design; proper layout and equipment selection. Maintenance schedules; protect your investment-take care of your equipment. 
• Efficiency expert; all phases of not wasting time and money. 
• Wine List and Menu Specialists; selection, design, proper pricing and implementation. 
• Menu implementation: Standardize recipes, training of dining room and kitchen staff. 
• Systems layout and training; every aspect from cleaning to guest services. 
• Vendor selection; finding the products you need at prices that make sense. 
• Receiving and inventory implementation; how to accept products and account for them. 
• Marketing/Sales/Advertising; The how and why of successful promotion, press and beyond. 
• Customer awareness; instill pride of customer service in all staff. Community Acceptance; help you work to achieve harmony with the community. 
• Sanitation; clean facilities and safe food preparation and service. 
• Computer systems and software planning; determining your business needs and conducting training. 
• Cost Controls; know how to control your costs through purchasing, pricing and waste prevention. 
• World Wide Web/Internet development; Layout and design of your web site and e-mail. 
• Planning for the future, expansion, moving, exit strategies, selling your assets.   
• Job descriptions, employee manuals and operation procedures; help you write them. 
• Loss and fire prevention, safety procedures and emergency planning. 
• Quality assurance; only the best service and employee cooperation will do. 
• Staff training, front and back of house; training your staff to be efficient and professional. 
• Inventory utilization; get the most out of your stock.

Rates for 2008--$135 per hour or $945 per day.

About Chef John Vyhnanek C.E.C. / C.F.B.E. ---

As a restaurant consultant, John works with clients, helping them in business startup and in integrating a variety of systems of professional food and beverage services.  John was the chef/owner of The Harvard Street Grill, an award- winning restaurant in Brookline, MA for 7 years and worked at The Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Boston for 11 years where he served as the Executive Chef. He has over 30 years of food service experience.
Currently, John is an Instructor in Boston University's Culinary Arts Programs, where he teaches fundamentals of cooking and other professional development seminars including how to start a Personal Chef business.  He also operates the web site Good Cooking, (http://www.goodcooking.com): "A mouthwatering site on the Internet" (Internet World, July 1996); "The best cooking site on the Internet" (Yahoo, September 1997); "Our favorite cooking website" (WBZ-TV, 1997).
Born in Hudson, NY, John graduated with Honors from The Culinary Institute of America and has continued his education in business and management.  He is a Certified Food and Beverage Executive, (C.F.B.E.) by The America Hotel and Motel Association, and a Certified Executive Chef through the American Culinary Federation. He is a member of The International Association of Culinary Professionals, American Culinary Federation / Massachusetts Culinary Association; Les Amis d'Escoffier Boston (Board of Directors member) and Central New England Chapters; Chaine des Rotisseurs Boston, Vice-Conseiller Culinaire; L'Ordre Mondial; Restaurant Business Research Advisory Panel; Past Advisory Member for The National Food Service Panel; and former Board member American Institute of Wine and Food Boston Chapter.
John was the recipient of The Ivy Award for Restaurant Management Excellence (The Oscar of the Food Service Industry) in 1993. Additional awards include the Escoffier Society Medal of Honor, 1994 and 2001; Wine Spectators Award of Excellence at The Harvard Street Grill 1990 through 1994.  Johnson and Wales Distinguished Visiting Chef, 1995. He has made numerous television and radio appearances, both local and national, and has been the subject of many print articles in Boston and national publications.
He has certificates of training in a wide variety of computer software programs such as PageMaker, PhotoShop, Illustrator, Microsoft Access, Excel, Power Point, HTML Coding, Networking, Advanced Internet Business and Computer Systems Management.

Good Cooking also has information on the Internet at http://www.goodcooking.com  An educational food and wine website!   You will find cooking information and suggestions. There are many recipes, cookbook reviews, wine information and professional directories with website links for everyone. There is no charge, it's free to access, download information from and get ideas. http://www.goodcooking.com --- "A Mouthwatering site on the Internet!"