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WHO WE ARE
Culinary Advisors was founded by Angela McPhaul, Bonnie Zietlow, FCSI, and Michael Pantano, FCSI, to provide highly personalized, professional foodservice facility planning and consulting services. Joined soon after by Suzanne Bahr, FCSI, the firm brought together four individuals with years of experience working together - as a team - in previous positions with other firms. Begun in 1993, Culinary Advisors was designed from the outset to be different. We do not claim to be all things to all clients. Instead, we chose to focus on what we do best, and augment our staff, as may be needed from time to time, with other professionals, who we call our Adjunct Staff. The company was structured to maximize the leverage provided by technology and the internet, while maintaining a close working relationship with clients.

OUR APPROACH
To create successful design soluions, we must first determine the overall needs and goals for the project. Using an interactive process, we work with you and your design team to identify key issues, assess specific requirements, and develop a program for the foodservice.The program becomes the basis for the design that follows. In the design of public areas, we work closely with architects and owners to blend aesthetic elements with the practical requirements of the foodservice operation. To help contain equipment costs, we apply our extensive knowledge of foodservice equipment manufacturers and models.

INDEPENDENCE

We offer our services on a fee-basis only. We are independent of foodservice equipment manufacturers and foodservice management companies. In this way we can objectively specify equipment appropriate for each project.

WHY WE'RE DIFFERENT
To achieve high standards of document quality, all documents basic to our business are created using computer technology. We use a customized database to create written documents such as equipment lists, utility load schedules and specifications. Any changes are automatically coordinated because after they are entered in one document, they are reflected on multiple documents. Virtually all drawings, conceptual and final, are created using CAD. With digital communications and image software we can send any information you need, from marketing materials to contract documents, over the internet. Traditional business ethics and values can and do coexist with the latest in business structures and innovations. We recognize that creative design solutions, professional quality documents and responsiveness are expected of every foodservice consultant. The bottom line is...we have developed better, more efficient ways to deliver these services to you.
Texas
P.O. Box 341807
Austin, TX 78734
512.261.3040(p)
512.261.3424(f)

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Virginia
706 North Henry Street
Alexandria, VA 22314
703.299.5006(p)
703.299.4429(f)

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Maryland
3734 Crossbow Ct
Ellicott City, MD 21042
410.750.9467(p)
410.465.8472(f)
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N. Carolina
9700 Glen Laurel Way
Charlotte, NC 28210
704.540.0125(p)
704.541.7365(f)

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