Three disciplines.
One standard.
Engagements range from a single menu audit to embedded, ongoing culinary leadership. Every service below can run standalone or combine into a full transformation.
Culinary
Direction
Fractional or embedded Culinary Director services for groups, hotels, and multi-outlet brands that need senior culinary leadership — menu vision, kitchen standards, talent development, and flavour identity — without carrying a full-time executive chef overhead across every property.
- Menu development & seasonal refresh direction
- Kitchen standards audits and SOP authoring
- Chef & sous-chef mentorship, brigade structure review
- Brand-level flavour identity across multi-unit portfolios
Recipe &
Cost
Engineering
Every dish, sub-recipe, and ingredient specified to a production-grade standard: exact yields, method steps, critical control points, allergen inheritance, and true food cost — documented once, correct forever, and instantly recompiled whenever a supplier price changes.
- Full menu costing & food-cost recovery audits
- Standardized recipe documentation (Signature Lock format)
- HACCP-aligned critical control point mapping
- Allergen & certification traceability, ingredient to plate
Systems &
Software
GASTRO-LX designs and builds its own culinary operating tools — including RECIPE CODEX™, our recipe engineering and cost-compilation platform. When we set a standard, we hand you the software your team uses to run it, every single service.
- RECIPE CODEX™ implementation & team onboarding
- Culinary intelligence library setup (ATELIER)
- SOP / HACCP digital workflow rollout (PLAYBOOK)
- Enterprise reporting & multi-property control (PRO)
How We Work
A clear, four-stage process.
Every engagement — regardless of scope — moves through the same disciplined arc.
Audit
On-site review of kitchen, menu, costing, and standards to establish an honest baseline.
Engineer
Recipes, SOPs, and systems built or rebuilt to a documented, repeatable standard.
Implement
Team training, software rollout, and live testing under real service conditions.
Sustain
Ongoing advisory or embedded support to keep the standard alive through growth and change.
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