Whether you’re launching a new business and need a comprehensive menu designed from scratch or you’d like to diversify your existing menu to cater to a wider audience, Doug can execute your vision with his expert touch, on time and within budget. After an in-depth consultation to discuss your specific needs, goals and vision, Chef McNish will craft a customized menu full of his own unique and undeniably delicious recipes. What’s more, he will ensure that all the ingredients, time and preparation required to make your new menu a reality are fully accounted for through comprehensive food costing and sourcing within your budget. In addition to menu design and development, Chef Doug is an experienced food educator and can assist in any training that your BOH or FOH teams need to ensure that it will be executed properly on a daily basis, so your customers can come to expect the same tantalizing quality with every visit.

An often overlooked but absolutely crucial aspect of any food service business is understanding and organizing its kitchen operations. The functionality of the food you cook is just as important (if not more) as its quality. If you have an amazing recipe, but your kitchen isn’t equipped to handle the processes involved in consistently creating it en masse, then your recipe and the skills of your kitchen staff are useless.

By partnering with Doug, you are teaming up with a dedicated and hands-on Executive Chef with tried and true methods and strategies that will save you time, money and hassle. Chef McNish is skilled in the art of kitchen set up, so your operations will be as efficient and profitable as possible. He has a passion for helping launch new food businesses, so even if you’re in the early stages of restaurant development, reach out for a consultation.

One of the most complicated and time-consuming demands related to any profitable food service business is the sourcing of products, setting up the supply chain and properly costing the final product(s).

Through Doug's years of experience, he can support your business with a menu of cost-controlled systems and guidelines, ensuring that all the guesswork is taken out of the margins so you can always stay within your budget.

His deliverables include a breakdown of fully executed turn-key supplier ordering sheets, inventory sheets and more. While this step is often neglected in the hubbub of launching a new business, every successful restaurant knows that it can not be ignored, and should be considered right from the start.

Have you ever wanted to know what type of kitchen equipment is the best suited for your business, or even your home? What about the best way to lay it out in your existing, new, old, or soon-to-be new kitchen?

Chef Doug knows how important the kitchen is to any dwelling, and he knows exactly how to ensure that it functions in the most efficient and profitable manner. Kitchen design should be considered an important and foundational building block for your business as you build your way to success.

With Doug’s decades of professional food service experience, he will help you choose, purchase and implement the best equipment for your needs, goals and vision.

Have a special occasion coming up? Chef Doug and his team love providing personalized, memorable experiences for all occasions, creating customized menus serving clients in private home settings.

Chef McNish is always a professional, providing friendly and customized meals, appetizers and more to single clients, couples or families both at home or abroad. Doug can create anything from raw living cuisine to vegan comfort food, catering to specialized diets like Gluten Free, Macrobiotic, allergy free and a wide variety of other dietary needs.

For a fun and entertaining evening, Chef Doug can even turn your dining room into your own private cooking class! Contact him today for all your custom meal and menu development needs.

Doug and his team are available to come to your home and entertain your guests for any type of event.

If you’re planning a large event or fundraiser, Chef McNish can prepare you a plant based menu according to your needs and tastes, and even come train your kitchen staff to ensure its most delicious delivery to your guests.

Whether you’re planning a lavish gala, an intimate evening at home, or a wine pairing fundraiser, Doug and his team can create and execute a masterpiece menu for you and your special guests.

Whether you already have staff in your kitchen, or you are looking to hire someone, Doug and his team are available to work with your team to implement vegan cuisine into your life.

Chef McNish can come to you where you’re located and provide standardized recipes to suit any diet, with comprehension instructions in an organized physical and digital format. Hire Chef McNish to teach you or your staff how to re-create and execute his famous vegan meals, dips, snacks, sauces, dressings, salads, breakfasts, soups, desserts and more.

Contact Chef Doug for your private menu development consultation, and elevate your event or business.

Doug is an experienced educator, and can come to your home to teach you or your staff all the proper skills, techniques and secrets of creating vegan cuisine.

From raw living foods, to vegan comfort food, or gourmet whole food plant based recipes, Doug has passion for passing down his knowledge of plant based cuisine. Guaranteed, his private cooking lessons and demonstrations are beneficial for beginners as well as experienced chefs.

If you’re looking to leap into the healthy vegan lifestyle or plant based diets, hire Executive Chef Doug McNish to teach you everything you’ll need to know, and guide you through this transformative journey.