We can help accentuate your brand and bring life back to your food business.
Gremolata Strategies Group is dedicated to making sure you put your best foot forward; always! We take our years of experience in the food industry and we help you make sense of the ever changing scene, formulate a plan, and make it scalable.
What we do
Coaching
You have what it takes; you just need someone to help keep you on task and focused. Someone to help guide you through the process of organizing your thoughts and taking action. Maybe you are struggling to make sense of the ever changing industry, or managing your day-to-day expenses. We help take you out of the chaos so you can have a comprehensive perspective of your organization's dynamics. Let us help you understand where you’re at, where you want to go and what needs to be done to get there.
Growth
Growing your business requires a lot of know-how and planning. We have nurtured all sorts of operations bringing them from small boutique to several locations and taking revenues up to 20 fold. You have a great concept and need to see it through in order to scale. A coach can provide invaluable guidance, ensuring you take the necessary strides and are fully prepared to turn your vision into reality.
Product Development
We take ideas and bring them to life. With countless decades in the industry, our team has created hundreds of products from fresh to frozen to shelf stable. We have the culinary background, the product knowledge, the industry know how that you need to craft the next big thing.
Who we are
André has both a degree in Communications from the University of Ottawa and is a graduate of the Culinary Management Program at Algonquin College.
He has worked in many different settings, including large chain operations, hotels, food styling for Foodland Ontario, to doing work with the Chef of the British High Commission both at the Residence as well as his personal Bistro and finally transitioning to a Catering Chef and Product Developer working alongside Ottawa's most affluent residents such as Prime Ministers, Ambassadors and Popular Canadian Artists.
He moved to Simcoe County in 2010 in order to open a specialty food shop. When he finally decided to close his operations in 2020 he was operating a 90 seat full service restaurant, 35 seat café, seasonal high-end café, full service catering, as well as some food service opportunities in manufacturing.
Coaching and consulting on food start-ups and working with long established food operations here in Canada and the United States, he works with entrepreneurs in helping them manage, grow and better their operations from the day-to-day, to new growth opportunities as well as product development challenges. André has assembled a team of specialized Chefs, Pastry Chefs, Butchers and Nutritionists to help bring your dreams to life.
