Brendan Evje, Consultant
Professional
Brendan is an enthusiastic food service leader with a 19-year background overseeing large-scale production and manufacturing of CPG and prepared food products. He started in the restaurant industry at a young age and have always wanted to be a chef so he went to culinary school, worked way through different restaurants while gaining varied experience from working and expediting in busy restaurant kitchens to banquets and fine dining. Brendan also worked as a private chef and at private dining events. His latest experience before consulting was in recipe/product development and operational planning to execute new recipes at scale and ran a prepared foods program with $10M in revenue and 75 employees!
Primary focus: Market research, program review and assessment, programming, master planning and supplier selection processes
Featured Projects:
Davidson College
Florida A&M University
Northwestern University
University of California, San Francisco
Virginia Tech
Personal
Brendan is a self-proclaimed “Cat Dad”, to two kitties, Fitz and Malta. He spoils them with an abundance of treats and hand feeds them three meals a day. Hailing from Rhode Island, but currently in California, he is constantly trying to find the best example of the “east coast pizza” or “east coast sandwiches” that he grew up with, which sometimes leads to frustrating results for him and his dining companions! Brendan is a chef at heart and is always willing to patiently explain the technical difference between braising and stewing to anyone willing to listen.