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Turning good hospitality into great business
Built on decades of real-world hospitality experience, we design practical systems, tools and education that help chefs and operators run smarter, stronger and more profitably.
Working better together
Bringing together innovative products, expertise and training to solve real challenges that kitchens face every day.
Kitchen Advisory. Courses. Training
The Culinary Director delivers practical training, workshops, mentoring and advisory services built specifically for chefs, operators and hospitality businesses so they can avoid financial stress and burnout.
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Industry leadership
Led by Andrew Briese, The Culinary Group and The Culinary Director are on a mission to make hospitality businesses more profitable, while creating an industry where kitchens and their people, thrive. Using expert frameworks with the knowledge that comes from 30 years in kitchens, Andrew provides practical industry talks and highly relevant advisory.
The Shop- Tools for kitchens
See our tools designed for real kitchen conditions, blending systems thinking with hospitality intuition. Built by hospitality leader and chef, Andrew Briese, creator of Cooking The Books- Australasia’s leading kitchen management platform.
Kitchen advisory, systems & training
Real kitchens don’t need more theory - they need systems that work. We deliver food costing, leadership and kitchen performance training and advisory services built by chefs, for chefs. Less chaos. More control. Better margins.
Portion Pockets
The innovative labelling solution that lets you print clear, custom prep labels at the click of a button, Sticky Dates is the smarter, faster, more reliable way to label food in a commercial kitchen.
Sticky Dates
The innovative labelling solution that lets you print clear, custom prep labels at the click of a button, Sticky Dates is the smarter, faster, mistake-proof way to label food in a commercial kitchen.
Tools for better kitchens
We know what it takes to create better kitchens.
Explore tools designed for real kitchens. We blend systems thinking with hospitality intuition. Built by hospitality leader and chef, Andrew Briese, creator of Australasia’s leading kitchen management platform, Cooking The Books.
Built by a chef.
Designed for real kitchens.
The Culinary Director was created from lived experience inside the hospitality industry - not from a boardroom, spreadsheet or corporate playbook. After years spent working in commercial kitchens, leading teams, building systems and helping hospitality businesses improve profitability, Andrew Briese saw the same challenges appearing again and again: talented chefs and operators working incredibly hard, but often without the tools, training or operational structure needed to run sustainable, profitable kitchens.
Andrew is a trusted, leading industry voice and specialises in working alongside many hospitality businesses and venues for:
- Restaurant mentorship and development
- Menu design and culinary strategy
- Kitchen operations and staff training
- Kitchen audits and operations
- Workshops for chefs, kitchens, businesses
Chef. Founder. Industry voice
Andrew Briese is a chef, hospitality tech founder and industry educator known for helping kitchens turn operational chaos into clarity and profit.
After founding and scaling one of Australasia’s leading kitchen management platforms, Andrew now works across speaking, training, consulting and industry leadership - sharing practical insights shaped by decades in hospitality.
"I’ve done the triple shifts, the mad Saturday nights and the tight margins. I know the pressure that comes with a full docket rail and a kitchen running flat out - that’s why the systems, strategies and solutions I share are built for real hospitality, not just spreadsheets."
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