We are a team of professionals with a fancy for food: strategists, business analysts, researchers, designers, photographers, writers and chefs who bring expertise and energy to every client relationship.
Our team shares a love for food, wine, travel, arts & culture, bringing a unique global perspective.
Our Values
We love what’s on our plate and look for clients who share the values our team lives by everyday:
MUTUAL RESPECT
Respect for our talent and time
INTEGRITY
Be true and honest with one another and the process
TEAMWORK
Work together for the best results
IMAGINE THE POSSIBILITIES
We live to create your unique story
POSITIVE ENERGY – KINETIC ENERGY
One great idea builds on another
SHOW UP TO PLAY
Commitment to achieving the best possible outcomes
The joyful plate community
Financial Analysis
joyful plate partners with Rudofsky Associates to help clients with financial planning. We have worked together on numerous start ups, developing cost of good estimates, forecasting and P&L modelling for investor decks.
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Product Development
joyful plate partners with Rutgers Food Innovation Center to guide you from product idea or recipe to reality.
• Recipe scale up
• Sensory testing
• Contract manufacture
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Natural Products Research (NEXT)
joyful plate partners with NEXT to help quantify your new business opportunity against the NEXT database of healthy market segments
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Consumer Research
Michelle Lawton: Qualitative moderator & strategy/innovation workshops https://www.linkedin.com/in/lawtonmichelle/
Peri Shaplow: Qualitative, quantitative, brand health tracking, tone of voice testing, digital ethnography (Facebook/Pinterest), rapid feedback testing (go/nogo), digital A/B advertising testing.
www.linkedin.com/in/peri-shaplow-216b2249
Member of the Global QRCA (Qualitative Research Consulting Association)
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Fashion/Lifestyle Consulting
joyful plate partners with Accessory Think Tank, specializing in the growth of emerging, established and eminent accessory brands. The intersection where food meets fashion: we can develop textiles and promotional materials for your kitchen, table top, wine or lifestyle brand.
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Creative Communications
Design: We choose the right partner for you from our network of 4-5 boutique consultants for package design, copy writing, web, social.
Public relations: We partner with Louise Kramer, results-driven PR professional with extensive experience promoting food brands to top media. Ran press for 16 Fancy Food Shows and managed sofi Awards, “Oscars” of specialty food.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/louisekramer/