WHAT WE DO
Strategize
We work at scale
We collaborate with your team to create strategies for optimizing your success.
• New venture development
• Clean food initiatives
• Concept essence discovery
• Brand creation
• Marketplace positioning
• Strategic menu planning
• Supply chain innovationWHAT WE DO
Develop
We get things done
Whether you’re in the early stages of recipe creation, working through proof of concept, or trying to manage the logistics and costs of a launch, we can help you make it happen.
• Menu development
• Product ideation
• Recipe creation
• Custom sourcing
• Service system design
• Kitchen layout and design
• Documentation of operating systems
• Rationalization/optimization of supply chainWHAT WE DO
Execute
We drive results
By combining vision, strategy and development, we create success. We have more than 25 years of experience advising
America’s top restaurant brands, suppliers and start-ups, generating billions of dollars of incremental revenue.
WHO WE ARE
CCG began in 1991 as a pioneer in the food industry – offering a new approach to product development and project management for national chain restaurants.
Today, we are a seasoned group of culinary professionals who specialize in collaborating with existing organizational structures and elevating a food brand from within. Our approach is strategic, transparent and highly productive, delivering results everybody wants to own.
Prior to CCG, Ethan honed his operational and management skills as part of the Au Bon Pain executive team and launched successful food ventures of his own. Ethan is an advocate for sustainable agriculture and volunteers his time and talents with a non-profit hunger relief organization.
BACK TO MAIN
Founder, Managing Partner

In 1991 he launched CCG. His goal: to create a new kind of company based on customer-centric solutions. Today, that vision is a reality and has allowed him to pursue his passion as a social entrepreneur, uniting commercial and humanitarian objectives to benefit in-need children all over the world.
BACK TO MAIN
Founder, Managing Partner

Scott possesses the unique ability to find solutions inspired by the needs of a single restaurant, and develop a process that will work across the system of a national brand.
BACK TO MAIN
Partner

Prior to CCG, Ethan honed his operational and management skills as part of the Au Bon Pain executive team and launched successful food ventures of his own. Ethan is an advocate for sustainable agriculture and volunteers his time and talents with a non-profit hunger relief organization.
BACK TO MAIN
Founder, Managing Partner

In 1991 he launched CCG. His goal: to create a new kind of company based on customer-centric solutions. Today, that vision is a reality and has allowed him to pursue his passion as a social entrepreneur, uniting commercial and humanitarian objectives to benefit in-need children all over the world.
BACK TO MAIN
Founder, Managing Partner

Scott possesses the unique ability to find solutions inspired by the needs of a single restaurant, and develop a process that will work across the system of a national brand.
BACK TO MAIN
Partner

CLIENTS & PARTNERS
“Ethan and Shawn are the critical “missing link” that a company needs to realize their singular competitive culinary strategy.”
Mark Miller, Chef/Culinary Consultant/Author
CLIENTS & PARTNERS
“CCG just gets it. They ask ‘how can we help’, listen to the answer, and then use their skill set and contacts to provide tangible, profitable solutions.”
Russell Owens, President, Fox Restaurant Concepts
CLIENTS & PARTNERS
“I’ve worked with Ethan and Shawn for more than 30 years – they are my go-to-guys for all things food.”
Louis Basile, CEO, Founder, Wildflower Bread Company; President, Fast Casual Alliance
CLIENTS & PARTNERS
“They are a complete pleasure to work with because of their dependability and shared passion for culinary excellence.”
Mark Miller, Chef/Culinary Consultant/Author
CLIENTS & PARTNERS
“They are continuous innovators – with new products and ideas that meet the ever-changing needs of the multi-unit restaurant industry.”
Howard Katz, Owner, Standard Foods
CLIENTS & PARTNERS
“Working with them is like having my own personal R&D team, traveling the world, bringing back fresh ideas and inspiration.”
Louis Basile, CEO, Founder, Wildflower Bread Company; President, Fast Casual Alliance













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