A “THOUGHT TO FORK” Academy for Food & Drink Businesses
HOW MANY BEANS? offer food and drink entrepreneurs and businesses tailor-made support through training workshops, webinars, mentoring and coaching.
Our team of experts equip you and your team with the skills and tools to grow your business. They transfer their real life experience in successful New Product Development and beyond.
How launch ready are you?
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What can you learn next?
Training and Workshops
Our training and workshops range from a 3 day face to face academy that covers all aspects of the “Thought to Fork” process, to topic specific online masterclasses.
The tools we share with you have been tried and tested over many years of new food launches and the case studies we share come from across the food and drinks industry and are real life experiences our team of experts have.
“Thought to Fork” Academy
A three day interactive workshop covering all aspects of a successful product launch.
Face to face or Online
NPD 101 Workshop
A four hour interactive workshop covering the “Do’s” and “Don’ts” of New Product Development. Face to face or Online
Topic Specific Training
Topic specific webinars e.g. NPD 101, Passion Project or Profitable Business, Pricing, Project Management.
Tailored Training and Support
Tailored to your needs, we can provide training, coaching or project specific on location support.
Who we are
HOW MANY BEANS? is a team of expert food and drink practitioners with more than 100 years experience of the industry including new product development, business growth and capability building gained at all levels from Director to co founder.
What our clients say
“Ian helped me prepare my pitch for Ocado and now we are live”
“The knowledge, expertise and insight of the presenters and the collaboration they brought around topics was invaluable, but delivered in a way that had relevance to our specific circumstances and evolution of our business.”
Articles & Free Resources
Asking the question?
Order size vs Batch size
Sizing your batch to match order quantities can reduce wasteA small jam producer had perfected their recipe for artisanal jam. They knew exactly what quantities of raw material to buy for a batch. A batch would make a multiple of 12 jars. Everything would work...
Costing in the real world
Hobby or Entrepreneurial Business? Costings will show you which one you haveCosting a product in your home kitchen should be easy, but is it? All the elements of making your product are there in front of you but… My mother in law made pies in our kitchen for a local...
Ingredient Lead Times
Making assumptions about lead times can come at a cost.So here you are, recipe done, packaging done, ingredients identified and tested, shelf life completed, product sold in! You are approaching your first production run with confidence. What could possibly go wrong!...
Contact Us
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