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Introducing the Chef Advisory Network: a New Chef Driven Advantage for Food Manufacturers.

Turning culinary expertise into market-ready innovation

In a unique collaboration with the Southern Smoke Foundation, Bader Rutter’s food practice launches their Chef Advisory Network: working teams of professional chefs aligned to help manufacturers navigate the ever-changing food landscape. These handpicked culinary leaders provide real-time insights, product feedback, concept development, trend intelligence and market-ready inspiration.

Rooted in frontline culture and today’s foodservice realities, these chefs bring lived expertise from kitchens, operations and menu development. The Chef Advisory Network offers food manufacturers and marketers the very real advantages of smarter innovation, faster iteration and a direct input from the people shaping what is next in food.

Foodservice insights: frontline and firsthand

If you manufacture food service products, whether food, equipment or specialties, the Chef Advisory Network provides an exclusive, real world look into how they might be used and interpreted in the nation’s restaurant and institutional kitchens. Real working chefs share their thoughts, opinions and time in an exciting new research platform managed by Bader Rutter: a leading foodservice B2B marketing agency.

By engaging with the Chef Advisory Network, you not only get access to top talent, but your fees also support foodservice workers in crisis through our ties to Southern Smoke Foundation.

That’s a win-win for everyone in foodservice.

Image 1 (L to R): Chef Bailey Sullivan, Chef Sarah Grueneberg, Chef Abby Schroder, Jaime Canete; Image 2: Jaime Canete, Caroline Nabors; Image 3 (L to R): Chef Laoise Rubio, Catarina Bill, Chef Sarah Grueneberg, Victoria Gutierrez, Chef Zach Engel, Chef Erick Williams; Image 4 (L to R): Chef Sarah Grueneberg, Chef Abby Schroder, Victoria Gutierrez; Image 5: Liam Boyle, Nick Guerten; Image 7 (L to R): Chef Laoise Rubio, Catarina Bill, Chef Sarah Grueneberg, Victoria Gutierrez, Chef Zach Engel, Chef Erick Williams; Image 8: Chef Zach Engel, Chef Erick Williams; Image 10: Chef Zach Engel

Working to help foodservice, together

At Bader Rutter, we’re invested in improving the foodservice industry. The Chef Advisory Network helps us activate our partnership with Southern Smoke Foundation to provide resources for workers facing crises throughout the industry.

Our network chef panels can do everything from filling out surveys to generating recipes to appearing live to speak on panels, and we can help you determine the costs and timing for all of it. We work hard to make them more affordable in time and money, so everyone benefits.

Let’s discuss how the Chef Advisory Network can work for your business.

Drop us a line, and Bader Rutter’s Foodservice Practice Lead, Laoise Rubio, or our VP of Business Strategy & Development, Liam Boyle, will get you started on cooking up something special.