Meet Andy

Offering Creative Hospitality, Catering & Business Solutions

Andy is based in the UK and is a multi award winning Operations Director. He has been working in the catering industry for over 32 years. His career has taken him around the world and given him great insight and opportunities. From industrial bakeries and high street brand development, to VVIP client fine dining for the some of the wealthiest people in Asia, to first in class lounge service and operating team GB house in the 2012 Olympics, wellness solutions for education and business, large volume events and banqueting, logistic and centralised production solutions. Andy’s diverse experience in operational and project management makes him an expert in the art of the possible for any business.

Andy is the owner of AMT Client Catering Consultancy Ltd. Following 6 years in Asia where he experienced the effect of COVID on businesses hitting first, he believes that the industry has to change its mindset to better fit new consumer needs and succeed in the future. In creating his own business he believes that as a consultant he can maintain a balanced and independent view point to any challenge. He is neither tethered by any historical barriers or internal politics that prevent change and progress. Therefore he offers a world of experience to innovate a successful business strategy to meet every clients need and bring it to fruition.

Andy believes that his background as a chef adds great value to his strategic input into a business. Giving him a highly creative approach to both front and back of house operations with a financial acumen that comes from operating at every level within a catering industry.

Most recently Andy has designed, planned and mobilised over USD$60m of client refurbishments in Asia. A challenge that gave him great exposure in end to end project management. Local Pan-Asian Food Hall, Meeting and Event Spaces, Western on Trend Food Hall, 5-star Executive Lounge, Central Production Kitchen, Satellite Finishing Pantries.

See the below snippet of what Andy has delivered to businesses throughout his career.

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Industry Recognised

Guest speaker and subject matter expert, I have been privalaged to have been invited on many occasions to talk about my passion and represent my views on a business and industry in which I operate.

Health & Wellbeing Programs

Ceator and presentor of wellness programs. From the inagural launch of global eat well live well programs, Andy has designed and created programs that educate and drive awareness through customers and catering teams alike. From recipies for customers to try at home to teaching kitchens where clients can create dishes packed with flavour and health, to embeded programs with logos and resoources that create the link between that caterer, client and customer ensuring healthier choices can be made.

Event & Banqueting

Delivering high end experiences on a large scale, is the chefs bread and butter. Serving highly celbratory meals to over 200 covers on a weekly basis ,recieving many compliments along the way.
Andy is assured he can step up the presentation, skill and knowledge to your teams.

Re-Opening Programs

Safe systems in place, operating in Asia we never really closed, so we had to design customer confidence and safety flow programs. Ensuring we communicated the great lengths that we went to in assuring customer safety and keeping them dining with us in comfort and confidence.

Kitchen Space Planning

Central Production Kitchen Hong Kong.

Andy created full HACCP flow system through the buildings operation, dramatically redesigning a 30 years old kitchen rebuild to ensure the latest technology was incorporated in food safety, energy monitoring and efficiency, food waste recovery and reduction systems.

Executive Lounge

5-star service lounge. Andy project managed a first in class exective lounge floor within a historic bulding in Hong Kong.

"Understanding the needs of the high networth customers, was paramount to ensuring the facility was fit for purpose and that the investment made were fit for thier future." from design of the latest touch point technologies to labour planning and hiring to food system, pricing and tariff structures, 5-star hospitality F&B provision.

Product Sales & Advocacy

Confidently Hosting Events and Sales Tenders.

Andy has the ability to engage an audience with passion and knowledge to ensure that a companies product and services are sucessfully advocated and understood.
Working with your teams to ensure that they take ownership of the offers and their parts in the sucess of the business.

Team GB House

2012 operating Team GB facility.

Andy had a great oportunity to plan and execute team GB house food & beverage offerings across a first class facility for the team never experienced before. The facility was designed to celebrate sucess and offer entertainment to family and friends with sponsors alike. From gold medal winners to royalty the 16 weeks covering the Summer Olympics of 2012 will be a fond memory to Andy for the rest of his life.

Pan-Asian Food Hall

Pan-Asian local food hall project Hong Kong.

Understanding your customer base and spending power is essential to designing a food hall that meets their cultural dining habits. Celebrating culture at every oportunity drives customer loyalty and familiarity with consistency, this then equals repeat custom.

Event Space & Food Hall

Event space and Food hall project Hong Kong.

By far the biggest project in Hong Kong, this challenge had Andy planning and designing F&B counters with offers, intergrated into the latest digital payment systems.
One of the key asks was to future proof the facility through digital signage and syatems to ensure it met the needs of generations to come.. Additionally the space also had to function as an event venue for the client and customers this added layers of complexity in design that also ensured dual functionality.

Promotional Developement

On trend food programs adding value and variety.

Andy has created and launched many branded themed food offers both original and also captureing the familiarity of authentic culturaly correct food offers. His diverse expeirence also allows him to consider environmental impacts and dietaryrequirements.
Celebrating seasonal and ethicaly sourced ingredients at every turn.

Yo local a brand I created in the Pan-Asia market.

Brands

Food development for high street brands.

Understanding retail brands and what drives customer participation and loyalty is a skill Andy picked up in over 3 years working within the M&S world, delivering branded Food and Beverage offers to the M&S customers. Celebrating the best of the M&S foodhalls was
a fundamental grounding with a world recognised brand. This now allows him to create his own in- house brands driving customer loyalty.

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