Indulge in Exceptional Service with F&N Private Dining

Ready for a chef's table experience in the comfort of your own home? Allow Friends & Neighbors to design you a seasonal tasting menu for your guests to enjoy. Perfect for benchmark birthdays, anniversaries or a special friend's trip!

• for up to 75 guests

• menu determined jointly between F&N and client

• F&N rentals available

• $1500 minimum (price determined by desired scope of service)

Wow guests with Friends & Neighbors wedding offerings. Available for weddings ranging from classic & elegant to casual & lively. Whatever your vision, Friends & Neighbors is here to help make your special day a bit more special.

Friends & Neighbors wedding offerings:

• buffet & service stations available for up to 150

• plated, coursed dinners for up to 50

• passed apps

• cutting cakes and dessert buffets

• festive drink mixers and garnishes for your signature cocktail

• specialty food events such as shrimp boils & big grill or live-fire cooking menus (venue dependent)

• specialty menus that cater to dietary restrictions such as vegan, gluten free or dairy free menus. (Kosher not available at this time).

• rental availability determined by scope of party

• $3500 minimum (price determined by desired scope of service)

For the more casual experience, hire the F&N team for just the food.

• client provides all flatware, plates, linens, etc.

• 10 guests or fewer

• menu determined jointly by F&N and client

• $750 minimum (price determined by desired scope of service)

Chef's Erin & David have expanded Friends & Neighbors reach with a new consulting offering.

As veteran cooks and chefs with over 25 years of combined experience, they offer time-tested solutions for your next culinary project or current hospitality struggle. Consider Friends & Neighbors consulting services for the following:

Menu Development

For the operator who needs help fine-tuning the vision, Friends & Neighbors offers intensive "food identity sessions," a group brainstorm to help discover the best version of your dream restaurant.

Menu development sessions consider the whole picture: labor and product costs, infrastructure needs, target clientele demographics, ease of use, marketability, margin spreads, feasibility and waste management.

Discover your 'signature dish,' and the items that will have guests coming back for what you alone can offer them.

menu development packages from $750

Existing Menu Audits

Get ready! We are about to tear it down to build it back up. Let F&N fine-tune what you've already worked so hard on. An audit of your menu will:

• compare pricing and structure to your local competition

• suggest menu edits to increase sales of high value menu items

• edit language to improve guest experience while preserving the "voice of the business"

• ensure the menu is appropriately priced to achieve your goals, balanced, cohesive, and user-friendly

• consider labor, product & overhead costs as well as perceived value and guest experience when suggesting additions or cuts from the menu.

This service is available to most food service establishments: food trucks or stalls, caterers or private chefs, fast casual or counter service concepts and full service restaurants.

Existing Menu Audit from $500

Recipe Development & Costing

Create delicious menu items that your team can produce over and over with the same results.

Tired of doing your best on menu pricing? F&N will create thorough costing spreadsheets for each menu item, so you can be assured you're charging appropriately as food and labor costs change.

Care to have F&N train your staff on a certain dish? we can absolutely do that.

Recipe Development & Costing packages from $1,500

BOH Systems Development

Need help creating a predictable outcome from your kitchen? Labor costs all over the place and guests complaining of inconsistencies in their experience? We can absolutely help with that.

F&N will begin with an audit of your current systems, observing a shift at your establishment & noting impediments to an improved level of service.

This is an intimate experience, so please note F&N will ask for financial records, supplier information, etc.

F&N will supply actionable steps to improve your service in the form of a new or augmented SOP pdf. This will include:

• training or retraining procedures for BOH staff

• strategies for creating a more consistent product (for example: use a ladle for salad dressing instead of a squeeze bottle)

• time-tested strategies to minimize labor cost with no appreciable change in consumer experience

• vetted steps towards maximizing product & minimizing food waste

• a collated equipment, supply and service list we recommend to improve BOH performance

• suggestions regarding workflow or delegation of tasks

• Standard Operating Procedures for opening, closing, ordering and inventory

Care to have F&N provide some professional development for your BOH staff? We can create custom training courses to hone the skills of your staff.

BOH Systems packages from $3,500