Strong visual food presentation & retail displays within restaurants matter in successful modern restaurants. Merchandise Food can help:
- Plan new stores & retail pilot projects
- Build impulse add-on food & branded retail sales
- Optimize marketplace queues & store layouts
- Grab & Go program & menu development
Often, Restaurants struggle with retail & miss easy sales. Why?
- Limited team member retail skillsets
- Current resources are foodservice vs. retail oriented
- Queuing delays and guest bottlenecks
- Retail products limited at foodservice distributors
- Culinary creativity lacks translation to retail environment
- Optimal grab & go packaging differs from take-out
- Operations often wins over presentation
- Weak use of space
- Kitchen designers promote kitchen vs. retail equipment
Businesses We Serve
- Restaurants
- Grab & Go
- Food Halls
- QSR Concepts
- Coffee Chains
- Takeaway
- Foodservice management
- Counter Order EaterIES
- Chef Driven Prepared Food Programs
- CAFE KIOSKS
- CONCESSIONS
- LOCAL FOOD MARKETS
- MOUNTAIN DINING SKI AREA F&B
Who We Help
- Corporate Executive Chefs
- CEO & Marketing Execs
- Corporate F&B Directors
- Restaurant Design Firms
- VP of Food & Beverage
- Celebrity Chefs
Restaurant Retail Food Merchandising Assessments & Consulting
Our Restaurant Food Merchandising Advisory is designed into custom-written report presentation with specific advice, resources, and inspirations to better plan new spaces or identify factors limiting sales in open stores. Our international network of retail products, fixtures, equipment, technology, and experts brings solutions to your retail food project.
- Discovery: Review project goals with F&B leadership.
- Store Assessment Site Visits: Existing Store or Concept, Floorplan & Elevation Reviews for new openings
- Peer Design Reviews: Joining your professional team (architect, food & beverage, site teams) to share retail perspectives & advice.
- Key ideas in our advisory decks often facilitate strategic retail road-maps and planning, building prioritized action-items, and are frequently referenced for years afterwards.
- Visual Examples: Our reports are filled (as relevant) with inspirational concepts & photos, mock-ups, examples of merchandising techniques and tools, and resources to implement ideas.
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Implement & Rollout:
Store Projects, Resets & Openings
Merchandise Food’s clients often outsource special projects entirely or in a collaborative team-oriented manner to strengthen your team’s capacity, bandwidth, and expertise to evolve your retail food environments. We can interact with new or prospective food distributors / importers / manufacturers, research solutions, analyze POS sales data, and guide projects forward better faster. Our experiences have supported pricing, labeling, signage, operations, training, product testing, culinary, concept development, negotiating, printing, graphic design, technology, visual merchandising, display building, innovation, facility design, pilot tests, data science, and beyond. We can quickly assembled diverse teams to tackle all aspects of retail food’s timely opportunities and challenges. We regularly support projects involving:
- Retail FF&E Specifications
- Visual Food Merchandising
- Store Openings & Resets
- Digital Menu Boards
- Fresh Grab & Go Food Program Development
- Food Packaging Sourcing
- Food Pricing & Signage
Restaurant Retail Furnishings & Equipment Guides
Count us in to help you select better decor, plates, risers, pastry display cases, modular modern floor fixtures & shelving to build a creative environment aimed to drive impulse sales. Merchandise Food can review your store or project concepts suggest exact retail furniture (simple to designer), sources, costs, quantities with an associated budget for your approval.
We’ve even imported, coordinated transportation & installation of an upscale modular retail fixture system from Europe for a leading resort group.
- Specify retail furnishings to match your brand, look & feel, food products & store environment. From shopping carts & baskets to built-in coolers we can help!
- Cost Savings: Merchandise Food has many wholesale sources and or can help identify cost savings.
- Chain Restaurant Merchandising Component: Our kitting & Fulfillment partners can help roll-out a merchandising refresh across your store system.
- Refrigeration & Heated Merchandisers: Sell more food with the right equipment to present your culinary menu with engaging views at just the right temperature.
Create food & beverage snack offering to impress
your guests.
Your quick service, grab & go, culinary station or food hall will benefit from added impulse beverages, bars, snacks, local bakery items within reach of your customers. We can help you fill your open & doored coolers with unique items mapped to your brand, health attributes, regional. We can efficient procurement methods, best practice display techniques, and pinpoint gaps in your offering hungry & thirsty customers might be looking for.
- Innovative Snacking & fresh prepared food trends
- Artisan local food maker suggestions
- Branded apparel, souvenirs, unique gifts & drinkware
- Custom Sweets & Snack imprinted with your Brand Logo
- Allergen Friendly (Vegan, Gluten Free, Keto, etc.)
- Age & cultural considerations: (Kid friendly vs. Senior living (salt content / texture), ethic specialties)
Food Merchandising Training & Job Aids
Develop retail & visual merchandising skillsets within your F&B leadership and operations team. Your retail attendants, cashiers, food & beverage management staff may require support to keep your store looking great with compelling displays to drive average guest checks. Merchandise Food encourages participation in new store set-ups and can actively coach your team to better understand “why” and “how” to build better enticing food displays and more optimal case sets.
- Aesthetic fresh food & pastry showcase
- Refrigerator case sets / plan-o-grams
- "How to" trainings - Elements of great food displays
- On-the-job hands on food merchandising examples
- On-screen visual presentations about retail food strategy and merchandising technique best practices.
Learn More: Download Merchandise Food's Free Guide: How to Open a Grab & Go Food Market
Build your F&B Team's Retail Skillsets in:
- Product placement
- CUSTOMER SERVICE
- Instore Signage & LABELING
- Upselling
- Product Stacking
- Cross-Merchandising
- Guest Flow
- SHELF MANAGEMENT SOLUTIONS