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Consultancy for Cooking Schools
Transform your existing venue into a dual-revenue engine—with minimal investment and maximum impact.
We’re Talks & Dishes—chefs and sommeliers shaped by the Mediterranean kitchen, now based in Rome.
We partner with established restaurant owners, boutique hoteliers, and culinary entrepreneurs who recognize a strategic opportunity: to monetize their existing kitchen, team, and wine list through a high-margin Mediterranean cooking school with integrated sommelier services.
This is not a side project. It’s a profit-driven evolution of your current business—designed to attract tourists, corporate teams, and local food lovers, while generating predictable, recurring revenue with minimal capital investment.
Our Proven Framework We’ve guided clients to 95%+ retention and profitability within 90 days by focusing on four pillars:
1. Curriculum as Revenue Architecture Project Intake and Implementation technique + monetize plan that sell out.
Online booking service setup—and premium upgrades.
2. Wine as a Profit Multiplier We structure your sommelier service to turn your wine list into a teachable, sellable experience. Through winery partnerships and smart markup models, clients increase average ticket value by 30–50%—with no inventory risk.
3. Operational Integration, Not Disruption, No new build out. No full-time hires. We design class schedules for low booking seasons or downtime and off-peak hours, train your existing staff in our proven methodical program, guide your team and follow-up in our consult hosting, and implement booking systems that run on autopilot.
4. Precision Marketing, That Fills Classes From SEO (“Mediterranean cooking classes with wine pairing ”) to corporate outreach and influencer collaborations—we attract high-intent clients from day one.
Who This Is For – Restaurant owners seeking to monetize downtime – Boutique hotels adding culinary programming – Culinary entrepreneurs launching a premium cooking studio – Retreat centers integrating food into wellness experiences
Ready to scale your Business ? This is culinary business strategy consult — it is not a cooking instruction. We don’t teach you to cook. We teach you to monetize your expertise in a way that’s sustainable, scalable, and deeply aligned with your brand.
Curious who’s behind the strategy? Meet our team.
If your restaurant, boutique hotel, or culinary space is facing declining foot traffic, underutilized hours, or pressure to innovate—you don’t need a new concept.
You need a proven revenue layer that leverages what you already have: your venue, menu, your team, your wine list, and your reputation.
At Talks & Dishes, we specialize in strategic culinary revamps for established food businesses.
We help you integrate a cooking school with sommelier-led wine pairings as a scalable, bookable, high-margin extension of your core operation—without building a new space or hiring full-time staff. Our Proven Revamp Framework,
We begin with your reality—not a template. Then, we implement a step-by-step system designed for fast ROI and sustainable growth:
1. Strategic Business Integration We audit your current operation—space, staff availability, wine inventory, and customer flow—and design a cooking class program that fits seamlessly into your off-peak hours (e.g., Thursday afternoons, Sunday mornings). No disruption. Just new revenue.
2. Turnkey Curriculum Implementation You receive our proprietary, market-tested cooking school model—fully adapted to your brand. This includes class structure, session flow, guest experience design, and integration with your existing suppliers.
3. Wine as a Profit Multiplier, We activate your wine list as a revenue stream. Through sommelier-led pairings and a curated “taste-and-buy” model, clients increase average spend by 30–50%. We handle winery partnerships and logistics—so you profit without inventory risk. 4. Lean Operations Setup – Staff cross-training (hosting + cooking class) – Booking & payment system integration – Licensing and insurance guidance – Minimal equipment—use what you have
5. Marketing That Fills Classes We build a targeted acquisition engine: – SEO: “Mediterranean cooking classes in with wine pairing” – Corporate outreach: team-building packages – Influencer collabs: local food & lifestyle creators – Tourist-focused offers: “Cook like a Roman” experiences
Why This Works Our clients—restaurants, hotels, and culinary venues across Europe—achieve 95%+ retention and profitability within 90 days because this isn’t a side hustle.
It’s a strategic business layer that:
– Monetizes downtime
– Attracts new, high-value customers (tourists, corporates, wine lovers)
– Deepens guest loyalty through experiential engagement
– Generates recurring revenue with low marginal cost,
Is Your Business Ready for a Revamp? If you have:
✓ A functional kitchen
✓ 3–4 hours of available time per week
✓ A wine list (even a small one)
✓ A desire to future-proof your revenue,
Then you already have everything you need to begin.
Curious who’s behind the strategy? Meet our team.
Let’s assess your venue’s potential.
Share your current setup, challenges, and goals—and we’ll send you a free Revenue Revamp Canvas, our framework for turning culinary spaces into dual-income engines.
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