From recipe to production line.
A recipe that works in a test kitchen can fall apart at production volume. We take products through the full commercialization process, from R&D to purchasing, planning, nutritional labeling, packaging, formulation, mass production and food safety, so the thousandth batch tastes like the first.
You have a product customers love, but it can't be made consistently at volume.
A new item is stuck between the R&D kitchen and the production floor.
You don't know your true cost per unit.
You need nutritional analysis, labeling or packaging decisions before launch.
Relevant experience
Nacho has run R&D and product development for restaurant chains including Sizzler (735 restaurants) and El Torito, and wrote the industrial formulations and COGS for every item Lemonade's commissary made.
Lemonade Restaurant Group · 2018–2020
Vice President of Supply Chain, Manufacturing and R&D
Real Mex Foods · 1999–2010
Senior Vice President of Operations, Sales and Research & Development
Everytable · 2020–2021
Vice President of Supply Chain, Manufacturing and R&D
Results achieved by Nacho Varela in executive roles.
Yes. Most projects start from a recipe that already works. The job is to make it repeatable, costed and safe at production scale.
We have put together complete nutritional analyses for commissary and menu items and managed labeling as part of commercialization. We coordinate with your lab or regulatory partners as needed.
No. We can prepare a product for your facility, a commissary or a co-manufacturer.
Build better. Operate smarter.
Plant design, equipment layout and start-up for USDA and FDA facilities, plus the quality, sanitation and compliance programs that keep them running.
Find the money hiding in your operation.
Labor scheduling, portion control, yields, KPIs and P&L discipline. The unglamorous work that turns a producing plant into a profitable one.
Support growth, not complexity.
Sourcing and contracting commodities, forecasting, warehousing, inventory control and production scheduling, set up to support growth instead of slowing it.
Share a few details about your operation and the outcome you need. We'll suggest the right starting point.
