Concept development and implementation
Chef Steve has worked for both retail operations and full service restaurants.   Home meal replacement food service programs,  reflect a marriage of both operations. It is the prepared foods program that sets the individual personality and footprint of your operation. Chef prepared foods make you unique and are profitable . As labor costs increase, creative, self service programs can be the solution. Enhance your food service by targeting the following potential profit centers:

 

Chef's case	Salad Bar	Juice Bar
Hot foods case	Grab N' Go program	Catering program
Specialty sandwich	Casual Cafe menu	Full Service Dining

We can also custom design a creative food service program to meet your needs such as a wok station, pasta kiosk, taco bar or any signature concept.

Kitchen Design and Planning:
An operational expert, Chef Steven Petusevsky has opened and operated dozens of commissary and retail kitchens. He will plan your kitchen; production and open show kitchens from an efficient operational perspective. Partnering with your architect and interior designer will insure a proper working environment that can save hundreds of thousands of labor dollars.

Equipment Specifications:
The proper selection of equipment can streamline your production and save valuable preparation time allowing finished products to be merchandised in your case where they can be sold. Critical production hours can be saved with the correct equipment for your menu. Create a cooking line that allows you flexibility and profitability.

Recipe Development and Menu Ideation:

It takes the right recipe to create your individual personality in the highly competitive prepared foods industry. Chef Steven Petusevsky pioneered the mainstream wave of healthier foods on to the American Plate. Let him add the right ingredients to your recipe for success. For over a decade, Chef Steve created many of the recipes for Whole Foods Market, and by many is considered one of the fathers of modern healthy cuisine.

Clients include:

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Lettuce Entertain You Enterprises, Inc. - Chicago, IL. Aramark Corporation - Philadelphia, PA Google - Mountain View, CA Whole Foods Market - Austin, TX General Mills - Orlando, FL J. Bildner & Sons - Boston, MA Brighams Corporation - Boston, MA Unicorn Village Restaurant & Marketplace - N. Miami, FL Wild By Nature - Long Island, NY King Kullen - Long Island, NY Jimbo’s Naturally - San Diego, CA Bread Of Life Plantation - FL United Coffee Association Try-Foods International Ocean Spray Cranberry Corporation Peanut Advisory Board Star Kist Tuna Bushes Beans Alaska Seafood Marketing Board

In Writing...
Get the word out. Bring your product or concept to national attention. Chef Petusevsky s unique cooking style and philosophy has brought him national recognition as a chef and journalist. He reaches millions of people monthly, teaching them how to select ingredients, cook intelligently and live better without sacrificing flavor.

Look for his articles in:

• “Cooking Light” - contributing editor

• Health

• Fine Cooking

• Prevention’s Quick And Healthy Cooking - contributing editor

• “Vegetarian Today” - Nationally syndicated column

• Supermarket Business- The Healthy Deli

• Restaurant Hospitality - From The Garden

• Natural Food Merchandiser- Food Service Operations

• The L.A. Times Syndicate, Vegetarian Times and Parenting.

• Chef - Author of the Ten Speed Press "Grains Poster"

In Person... As a Spokesperson
His cooking and operational seminars for industry as well as home cooks entertain and inform. Chef Steve removes the intimidation factor from natural food preparation with humor and expertise. He is an industry spokesperson and a nationally recognized speaker and educator. Chef Steven Petusevsky speaks about healthier foods and how they affect our daily lives, from Apples To Zucchini and everything in between.

• Television Food Specialist “Dr. Food “ ABC affiliate, Palm Beach

• NBC Today Show

• NBC South Florida Today Show

• New Hope Communications: Operational Seminars for Expo West and East

• Food Marketing Institute’s Meal Solutions 96’

• The American Institute Of Wine And Food” Feeding Our Children’s Future”

• Culinary Institute Of America- Awarded teaching fellowship

• Boston University- Chef Instructor and course development

• New York Restaurant School- Chef Instructor and course development

• Williams Sonoma- Great Chef’s Of Miami Series

• Resetting The American Table- National Spokesperson

• Cooking...Naturally- Natural Foods Cooking Seminars For Retail Operations